"It's like…you're in Milwaukee, but no matter how far you go, you're still in Milwaukee."

David Letterman on his NBC show interviewing Cokie Roberts, asking about her name: "What does that mean? Is that, like, an acronym or something?"

This sucks, as I know from experience. But you will meet other folks who will treat you better (and, honestly, somebody who would do that to you is somebody you don't need in your life). Give yourself time to feel whatever you need to feel, and then move forward.

Yep. The older I've gotten the more I've learned to dial it back, because I can think of so many times when the way I've thought I was sustaining a conversation struck the other party as either too intense or condescending (or I got all fangirl and started babbling trivia about things I liked). The other problem I've…

This. There are times I want/need to read a certain book exactly once, or to fulfill a certain need. An e-book does it at lower cost and without the physical book taking up yet more space on my already overloaded shelves. If I end up liking the book after all, I can always buy a print copy.

Also NA$CAR's 600-mile race at Charlotte was Sunday night, occupying Fox's prime-time hours and beyond.

It sounds straight out of a faculty meeting, which makes me wonder if academia has a lot more furries than I would have imagined.

"I had to kill Buckwheat. My dog told me he was the Antichrist. My dog's named Petey! Like the dog in the Our Gang follies." - John David Stutts

And yet it won four CMA Awards.

I forget the exact number of projects my uncle's was (it may have been 130-in-one; it's been 30+ years) but I remember batting about .600 or so on projects that did work vs. projects that didn't.

Just the word "Humpstremental" deserves the separate side. Wow.

I'm imagining this read like Edward Norton's narration in Fight Club.

"TEN-AMP Fuse! Rus-ted."

"I'm paying cash for a $3 package of heat-shrink tubing. Why do you need my phone number?"

The manager of my hometown Radio Shack the last few years I lived there kind of gave off that feeling. In college I applied for a job there, and after talking with him about the vacancy I got the feeling working for him would mean "keep a stopwatch around to time intervals between getting chewed out." I spent the rest…

My uncle who never quite grew up, and had a thing for technology and gadgets, bought one of those 150-in-one project sets (the big board full of little springs you'd connect with wires to complete difference circuits) and would let me goof around with it whenever I visited. That kind of product epitomizes what fun…

Radio Shackin' Up

And the Cassingle of "Funky Cold Medina" had both the version with lyrics *and* the instrumental! On both sides! Such value!

As someone who did the occasional project back in the day I can vouch for this. The gadget-store-like-Best-Buy business model was not a good fit. It seemed like a desperately reactive move.

DESPAIR!!!!!!!!!!!