A newspaper reporter heard about an amazingly clean farm north of the city. She felt that there might be a story here so on a quiet afternoon she drove into the country to find and visit this farm. She was somewhat incredulous when she found the farm. The long meandering driveway up to the farmhouse
The other day I was driving a country road a little north of here in my roadster and as I rounded a corner, checked my rear-view mirror, I saw a chicken running along behind the car. I was doing about 60 so it did seem a bit weird. A few seconds later, the chicken pulled along side,
Way back in the nineties I was the sales manager for the electron device group at Richardson Electronics. At one of our international sales meetings in Chicago we arranged for all attendees to go to a baseball game at Wrigley Field. For many folks from countries like France, Germany, England, Japan, Taiwan, Spain, Italy and
I was reading about a friend’s recent tire disaster with his Z4 Roadster it made me recall the time we re-tired in Utah in 2007. Cheryl and I were traveling back from the west coast with a group of roadsters. We were on an amazing life changing tour that we called the Roving Roadsters Route
It was about a month ago that I was at the Columbus Zoo with the the family. It was a warmish day and I decided after seeing several regions of the world and their animals that I’d take a rest in Australia. I opted to sit on a bench in the shade at the Koala
So I’m the new sales guy at Varian Associates making my first sales trip to visit the DSS (Department of Supply and Services) in Ottawa. In those years the section of the DSS that I visited was in some second world war temporary buildings in Ottawa, I seem to recall these buildings were on Wellington
I checked with Wikipedia and they list the Law of Unintended Consequences as “an adage or idiom that can be stated as follows: ‘Any intervention in a complex system may or may not have the intended result, but will inevitably create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes’. In common usage, it is a wry or humorous
Typically, I don’t like ethnic jokes as they tend to disparage different religions, races, creeds, nationalities etc. and that simply is not PC. I’ve tried in the following to take away ethnicity while maintaining the humor. I hate prejudiced people. You see, there were these three ethnic people. (Many jokes begin with You see…) Ethnic
Let me start with: During a company’s recent password audit, it was found that a blonde employee was using the following password: “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento” When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital. It was
It sickens me that there are so many selfish people who would prefer to let those less fortunate than themselves suffer with injury and disease. I grew up in a family where it was believed that we should help our fellow man and lend a hand when needed. I don’t see this as a political