I spotted this sign on a supply closet in the men’s restroom at my accountant’s building in South San Francisco. A sensible request, poetically presented. If you don’t have the key Please don’t open the door With other tools Thanks Manager
Last week my company issued a press release quoting me. Itself not necessarily worth reporting on this blog, but some web sites have published it substituting various words. I’m guessing they do this as link bait for SEO, so they show up differently from the sites that simply republish releases verbatim. But there’s some humor [...]
As I get older, this is actually pretty much how I feel… From The New Yorker (their Cartoon Bank is down, so I can’t link to the bigger/purchase page, but you can find it there if you’re interested). UPDATE: my friend Tom replies with the cartoon below…
My friend Jason took this photo in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. As he says, it evokes questions on many levels…. Who is supposed to respond to this sign? And just how many secrets do meat processors have?
This time of year is special to me – Mother’s Day and my mother’s birthday always come close together (sometimes on the same day). Today my mother would have been 67. When I started this blog a few years ago, I posted a remembrance of Mom that I revisit every so often. I still think about [...]
Economist Arnold Kling points out the absurdity of the US government’s residential housing entities: Old consensus: we need Freddie and Fannie in order to make housing “affordable.” New consensus: we need them in order to “prevent further house price declines,” in other words, to make housing less affordable. A crazy world we Americans live in. [...]
