Entries Tagged as ‘desperate’

June 26, 2009

AT&T: Hands Off My Earned Leave!

You heard me Ma Bell.  You too Mellon Bank…
BACKGROUND
This is going to be brief, but here’s the gist of it:

the company I worked for went into Bankruptcy
from the beginning we were assured that wages and accrued Paid Time Off (PTO) would be paid

THIS WAS CRITICAL because if 15,000 people started using up the PTO they [...]

October 22, 2008

Eva Longoria vs. My Wife

What the heck — she has left me alone this evening (my wife, that is), and she can’t check up on me as they don’t have “the Internet” on the Eastern Shore yet, so let’s have at it:
Pregnancy
EVA:  Rumor is Eva is pregnant, but her publicist keeps denying it.  They say she looks ‘fat’ when [...]

October 10, 2008

“not a crash”

I heard some guy on CNBC this morning say, “it’s not a crash.”
then what the heck do you call this:

[S&P 500, 5 year chart] — that line on the far right side of the chart goes all the way down to 909, from a chart high of 1691.  that’s got to be a crash.
I couldn’t [...]

October 6, 2008

kids say the darndest things

my wife was so kind to relate this to me…
so after all the sweetness of the other day, apparently my daughter held up my Seinfeld DVD box today, pointed to George Costanza, and said,
“that’s daddy!”
ugh.  all I can say is that when/if we play hockey, she better keep her head up.

January 8, 2008

35 years of change…

OK, this is a bit of a tangent, but when I hear Hillary talk about change, I think about Dennis Hopper.  Dennis Hopper — who started out in Rebel Without a Cause, Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, was dubbed New Hollywood’s first “drug burnout”, who probably coined the phrase “don’t trust anyone over 30″ — now [...]

October 15, 2007

regarding the Peace prize

nuff said.

August 7, 2007

wacky post of the day

I love it when I stumble on a post like this — whenever I’m feeling like I’m coloring a little bit outside the lines (so to speak), I find someone who puts things in perspective:
Are you curious about why those new towers are going up in all populated areas? We’ve gathered a lot of [...]

July 27, 2007

most libertarian sport?

from a thread on reason’s Hit and Run, initially about Michael Vick, but “Matt J” answered the question:
interesting question. What is the most libertarian sport?
Hockey maybe? Most of the rules are predicated on protecting the individual, it’s largely self policed and it’s seen as a fringe sport only a few die-hard nuts care about.
sure, I’d [...]

July 24, 2007

in other news…

thanks to bittorrent, I’ve discovered this show called Lost. I’m only on episode 5 so far, but I think I might be hooked. I don’t want to give too much away, but these people are stranded after their plane crashes on an island. the island is kind of spooky.
if you haven’t heard [...]

July 21, 2007

wow, I just inched closer to voting for Hillary*

if this exchange is to be believed:
The day before, by contrast, Hillary Clinton had this exchange with medical marijuana activist Len Epstein in Manchester:
Epstein: Twelve states allow medical marijuana, but the Bush administration continues to raid patient.
Clinton: Yes, I know. It’s terrible.
Epstein: Would you stop the federal raids?
Clinton: Yes, I will.

as Reason, uh, reasoned:
An appropriate [...]