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Work and Words

I work with quite a few Indians. Their ability to construct valid sentences and correctly pronounce words varies widely in this office. Several of them who are on the low end of this ability routinely ask me questions. Not once have I understood any of these questions. My response is

Chaos

Three freakin' phone conferences taking place around me. Maddening. I pulled out the headphones and put on some Justice to help quell the pandemonium. Sanity restored.

Grocery Store

I went to the grocery store last night to get toilet paper. Supplies at home are reaching crisis levels. I returned from the grocery store with mango juice, four apples and a half gallon of milk. No toilet paper. I'm going to try again today.

Where You Was

If, at the time, I had been thinking about the fact that I spent the second half of last week in Atlanta, then I wouldn't have had to ask for clarification when one of my many (many) non-native-English-speaking co-workers asked me: Where you was? Astounded as I was

Haggling

I've always been leery of handing out money. And by that I don't mean helping out a friend or family member. I expect that a certain level of responsibility is inherent if one has to work for one's money. That's not to

Jubilee

I just stopped by the grocery store that is ACROSS THE STREET from my new apartment to pick up some food. I was eager to find out whether this would be a good place to shop regularly (when I'm not using Fresh Direct). It's great. They

Moving

I'm moving ... out of midtown and into downtown ... 100 John Street. It's a nice place. I was looking at two apartments in this building. Both studios; one a bit larger than the other. The smaller one had a wrap-around terrace. The larger one has the most

Sorry

I'm back. I'm safe. And I'm catching up on work. Or trying to catch up on work. I'm sorry if I haven't contacted you to let you know that I'm back and I'm safe. I'

Hot and Cold

Given a room of people with relatively similar body fat levels, what causes some of those people to be cold while others are hot? Something to do with the individual's metabolism? I'm going to see if I can find out.

Modern Day The Twilight Zone Ideas

...suddenly, all local copies of web browsers disappear. The installers still exist on web servers, but no one has a browser installed any longer, so downloading a browser is difficult, but not impossible. ...suddenly, all compiled compilers disappear. We still have the source code for gcc, but no compiler with

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