Chung Hwa, from China. I have never been a pencil fan but I am fanatical about these. I'm more than a little sensitive to the scratching sensation of lead on paper yet somehow the Chung Hwa is much more comfortable in this regard than any other pencil I've ever used. The black-and-red coloring is also kind of…
Chung Hwa, from China. I have never been a pencil fan but I am fanatical about these. I'm more than a little sensitive to the scratching sensation of lead on paper yet somehow the Chung Hwa is much more comfortable in this regard than any other pencil I've ever used. The black-and-red coloring is also kind of…
I was going to chime in on those same lines: Megan's assessment of those "brutes doing whatever they want" is a somewhat naive oversimplificiation of military-style discipline and attitudes. Manning's likelihood of being subject to sexual abuse, etc. would be far higher if he were to be placed in a civilian prison,…
Also, there's no light reflecting off the lenses of the glasses. In fact it looks like he's only wearing frames.
For my current IT job, this non-sequitur was thrown in while I was being grilled on a series of troubleshooting questions:
It means that when the company started writing the logo in the upward slanting style on the cans and bottles that the juxtaposition of the "r" and "." in the particular typeface wound up looking more like a semicolon, so the label could be potentially misread as "Di: Pepper", so they decided to drop the "."
The wife and I drink so much of this we've got our own junkie-ish shorthand name for the stuff. "Honey, please bring me a deep." "We're running low on deep. Be sure to pick some up at the store." And Heaven help the spouse who forgets to put more deep in the reefer.
That's a great little video. I've been to both Disney Land and World multiple times with and without my kids. I love them both, but of the two I have to say I'm more partial to Disney Land, and this preference kicked into high gear a few years back when I read a couple of biographies of old Walt and came away with the…
I picked up CISSP last year and it has been a big help to my resume.
I'm a newly-licensed foster parent in New Mexico whose wife is a family law attorney. Suffice to say I'm well-aware of ICWA and believe it be a double-edged blade. On one hand I fully support the rationale behind ICWA and the need to preserve a sense of tribal identity and persistence. On the other hand I know that a…
The Honda Passport and Odyssey were respectively a pretty decent moped and dune buggy before they got re-branded as minivans.
I bought my first Game Boy in December of 1989. I was in the Marines at the time and stationed on a Navy ship. Having grown up with Atari 2600, at the time I got the Game Boy, the prospect of a portable system that was cartridge-based was just mind blowing to me, and a veritable godsend when it came to wiling away…
Having Krofft-colored flashbacks to the 1970's here...
As a New Mexican who lives on the Rio Grande river, but regrettably on the east side of it, I'd be in constant fear of Texas invading us and re-establishing its old western border circa 1840. If that happened I'd probably be forced to abandon my house and retreat to the western side where, if we NM's had any sense,…
It's a very common trope of apocalyptic fiction to lump the desert Southwest into some sort of "Badlands" cclassification, probably because this area is perceived as dull, underpopulated, and not worth writing about. But speaking as someone who lives in the middle of this particular "Wasteland" I don't think this is…
But to be fair, how many other social factors such as race and poverty place these numbers where they are? Surely not all, or even the majority, of these teenaged moms are the daughters of white, neocon, provincial churchgoers, as the tone of this post implies...
Last December I, along with my wife and kids, were stranded in Vaughn, NM in the middle of a horrible blizzard. All the motels were filled up so the town was putting people up on cots inside the gymnasium of the local middle school. There were between 50 and 75 people stuck in there that night. The town ponied up for…
The amount of vacation you earn per year with my company depends on time in. After nearly 6 years I earn about 15 days per annum, and all unused time rolls over. We can accrue a maximum of 30 days per year, so if you're getting near that maximum you're really encouraged to use it before you lose it.
I loved watching Fridays when I was in my pre-teens. But looking back at this now all I can think is...ehh. I feel like all I'm seeing here are a bunch of former left-leaning performance/activist types who, at this point, were entering into their early to mid-30s and coming to the realization that all that marching…
I'm a huge Rush fan with a proportionately inverse dislike for He-Who-Ruined-Dune. Still, I'm going to give this book the the benefit of the doubt; in part because I want to support Rush, but also maybe Anderson is a passable writer when he's not working with pre-established and well-loved properties such as Dune or…
