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Category Archives: Random Observations

Not-so-serious stuff

Updating One’s Blog….

02-Oct-12

Our office manager started a blog to keep our company posted on details of an upcoming office move. Her announcement included the cartoon below, which made me laugh (and reminded me of the cartoon with which I started this blog).

Wonderful Seminar Placards from BedBug University 2012

09-Sep-12

In September 2012 I was in Las Vegas to present on behalf of Castlight Health at the Institute for HealthCare Consumerism‘s Forum West. Another conference was going on at the same hotel: BedBug Central was holding their BedBug University North American Summit. Their two-day conference included a huge amount of educational and social content. I grabbed [...]

A sensible request from the Manager, poetically presented

15-Apr-12

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

Clamp Boss: Adventures in Word Substitution

11-Mar-12

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 [...]

Parting Hair

08-Jul-11

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…

No Idea What This Symbol Means

18-Aug-10

I’m in that large minority of folks to whom this symbol means nothing. According to an article on Yahoo! Autos: Do you recognize the symbol here? It lights up in your instrument panel and looks like a U-shaped pictograph with treads and an exclamation point in the middle. Do you understand what it means now? [...]