Here’s the deal: I’m a clutterbug. No matter where you go in my house, you’ll probably find a pile of something. It’s mostly piles of paper (drawings, notes, receipts, etc.), but you’ll also find cables, CDs, various pieces of musical equipment, batteries, pencils, pens, camera equipment, and books (yeah, there are a lot of book […]

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Sometimes, when I walk long distances — from my office to the cafeteria in the Capitol building, for example — I play this little game with myself. I pretend like the ground beneath my feet is a giant treadmill. I pretend that instead of me propelling myself through space I am, in fact, compelling the […]

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve occasionally had trouble getting to sleep. When I was a kid, I would lay in bed, wide awake, and listen to my dad snore while I watched the shadows on the wall from the trees outside my window. Back then, my patience for laying awake in bed […]

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Thanks to the inestimable Mark Couvillion, my IE CSS woes are over. I have no idea what he did to make it work, but I’m okay with that; I’m just glad it works now. Thank you, Mark!

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So at lunch today, Julien began to wax philosophical about life, sort of thinking out loud about the life spans among different species. “Chickens don’t live very long,” he said. “But turtles, they can live to be a hundred years old.” And at that point, I figured it would be appropriate to say something profound […]

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I tend to regard quotes the way I regard bumper stickers: sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they make sense, but most of the time they’re lame, and when you have to resort to appropriating someone else’s opinions to express your own (and especially when you feel it’s necessary to plaster those opinions all over your car), something’s […]

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I hate Internet Explorer more than Hillary Clinton hates losing to Barack Obama (and that’s a lot of hate). My menu/Flickr sidebar at left works perfectly fine in Firefox, but of course it doesn’t work in Exploder. Why do I ever expect anything to work in Exploder? Does anyone know how to fix it? (If […]

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I received this email about forty-five minutes ago:
Hello all,
I have been informed … that the demo crew has accidentally busted one of our main water supply pipes. The entire building’s water supply will be shut off to the building at 5 pm today, June 4th, for a couple of hours in order to fix the […]

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On my way home from work today, I got stuck behind a guy who was going 20 in a 35 MPH zone. And I said outloud, “What. The. Flippin’. Fuck?” I chose the word “flippin” because sometimes I think I cuss too much.

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The Lorenzo de Zavala State Library and Archives building is currently undergoing a massive renovation. They’ve started in the basement, ripping out walls, abating asbestos, and generally doing things us employees are not privy to. There are signs everywhere warning us to stay out of the basement. There is no statement of penalty should we […]

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