Posts tagged “Christmas”
Gifts
In which I receive a gift in the mail
Underwear
About 200 years ago I used to work at a place called InterLink Paging in Gainesville, FL with a woman named Anita. I worked there for years. During the holiday season, Anita would always talk to me about a song called Walking ‘Round in Women’s Underwear sung to the tune of Walking in a Winter
Present
A few days ago I received my first Christmas present of the year! It came from an unlikely source, and it is certainly appreciated. It’s a book called Prisoner’s Dilemma by William Poundstone. The book is about game theory and its relevance to nuclear proliferation and the Cold War and it is excellent. I’ve read
Twelve Days of Blogging
The BradLands’ Twelve Days of Blogging will put you in a happy – blogging – holidays – computer-y – yuletide mood. Probably. Or you can read the lyrics to The Christmas Song. John & Yoko wrote my favorite.
Christmas in July
There is something mildly disturbing about the fact that this is still happening. It’s not as disturbing as the very obviously female 300 lb person with a goatee and ponytail I saw smoking a cigarette and eating a twinkee in a wheelchair on the median while driving home from work, but that only happened once.
Christmas in July
There are something like 3000 employees at the Home Shopping Network HQ. This is where I am working now. Apparently there is a strange thing that only I have noticed happening here. I am finding it increasingly difficult as the day progresses to not grab someone by the lapels (or blouse) and scream, “Why the