just life

Do you have a DEJA VU moment until now?

You know those ties when something seems so familiar you feel like you;ve seen it or done it before? This happened to me many timeas, is like a flash, and i remember that i was in same situation...

custody

well today is the day. I get to go to court again and fight my ex for custody of my childeren. I have been divorced for 6 years with custody, now my ex wants my girls just so she can collect child...

what to wear: dressing for godot

If you find yourself sitting in a waiting room or know that you’ll have a long layover at an airport, then you want to be wearing something effortless and comfortable.  This is just the...

what to wear: 65+ fall style

The reason for this post is because I’ve never seen it addressed. And so I decided to do some research and even sent out a query to the PR flacks to see if their fashion clients had any clothes...

Bleg of the Day, or Noted for the Record

So I ran DataFerret in Batch mode. (I'm using other data and thought I would be nice. Never again, apparently.)Got the popup that said, "We're gonna do it, dude. You can pick it up later at...

PSA: WorldCon with an Economist

The first item on Charlie Stross's World Science Fiction Convention schedule:Thursday August 6th, 5pm (Location: P-511CF)Title: In Conversation: Paul Krugman and Charles StrossDescription: 90 minutes...

Canadian Independence Day Daytime Movie Lineup

Candian Bacon (certainly Michael Moore's best work of fiction), starring John CandySo I Married an Axe Murderer/ Mike MeyersAirplane!/ Leslie NielsenChain Reaction/ KeanuBright Lights, Big City/...

Examining The Damage to the NYC-area Economy

Being a seven-hour drive away, I don't have as much direct knowledge of the NYC economy as I did a year or so ago. So I have to rely on Different Metrics.Here is one DrektheUninteresting (see #6)...

Noted for the Record

105 years ago today, James Joyce lost his virginity.Eventually, he wrote a very funny book about the day.May all our days be as productive.

Michael Berube Is Always Correct

This is my last hogging post of the season. Congratulations to Bill Guerin and the rest of the Pens.

The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd

There is a brilliant moment in the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Giles explains to Willow that his problem with computers is "their smell."She replies, roughly, "But they have no...

I've Got the Under on S/h/e/a/ C/i/t/i/ Taxpayer Field

So the brilliant NFL has "solved" the Yom Kippur problem, moving the starting time for the Jets-Titans game to 1:00p.m.Which means that, with luck, the game ends around 4:00—probably closer to...