August 11, 2007 - Saturday The bUg entry Category: Jobs, Work, Careers This section is about the bugs that I have seen this summer on the boards. This summer has been buggy up there. First of all, there is a bug that, in my professional opinion, has adapted to the billboards. This bug looks slightly like a grasshopper though it is smaller and more colorful. It has what I'll call nuclear green and orange coloring on its back. The reason that I think that it is adapted to the billboards is that when I got it caught in the gluey sheet as I posted, I couldn't find it in the glue. It had escaped!!! Most bugs I accidentally murder get caught and I usually squash them so they don't suffer. I try and flick as many bugs as I can off the "war zone" where the sheet goes. Instead, this bug left behind a powdery trace of its coloring. It seems to have shed its colorful markings onto the glue so it was like a newspaper image on putty.read more »

I met a woman who changed my life. Keep in mind I have known this woman for almost a year and had no idea what her life was all about. She compared her life story with my current situation and they were amazingly similar.read more »

Women in national work force are the extra source of manual potential for any society. But equal and free opportunities for all will not only create healthy computation among gender but also increase the quality of work force.read more »

I just finished reading Heavier than Heaven, by Cross, A biography of Curt Cobain. True to its title it was by all means Heavy. I must start by stating that the Nirvana Unplugged CD is one of the most inspired recordings I have personally encountered. Here was this band, LOUD, lyrics barely audible over the guitar and the general loudness. I wasn't sure what to make of the Band and more specifically the man behind what was lauded as the Best Band of our generation. Then Unplugged was aired, released and I was in awe, a convert, a believer, for what I heard in the paired down songs was pure genius and I never looked back.read more »

It turns out that there is a cure for that nasty little depression that usually settles over your head right after the holidays. You know how it goes. You have all of that happiness, manufactured or not, and activity between the end of October and the end of December. Those last three months of the year always seem to fly by so quickly. You have parties to prepare for. You have to make travel plans. You have to buy gifts. You get drunk. You stagger home. You take time off from work and work has actual time scheduled to be off. It’s great and then January comes and there’s nothing.read more »

I actually have the credentials to be a total cinema snob. I got a piece of paper from Webster University that says I can be. It was mostly an accident that got me this piece of paper. I love movies. I have always loved movies. It comes from my dad who loves movies and used to sit me down and tell me to watch certain movies because he figured I would like them and, most of the time, he was right. This is how I became fans of “Fail-Safe,” and “The Wild Bunch.” I also saw the suite of Man With No Name movies by Sergio Leone that starred a young Clint Eastwood in a poncho and bad dubbing.read more »

The worst day of the year is rapidly approaching again. I speak, of course, of St. Valentine’s Day. It is, without a doubt, the dumbest holiday with the possible exception of Sweetest Day but since they pretty have the same theme I really sort of count them as the same holiday. Of course Sweetest Day is an even more ridiculous holiday but since it hasn’t really caught on the way Valentine’s Day has I have to sort of put it aside.read more »

It’s tough to be a radio guy these days. Back in the early days the DJ was pretty much a celebrity because there was nothing else. You couldn’t really take a record player with you when you went running or driving. So the only way to listen to music on the go was through the radio and the DJ was as much a part of the entertainment as the music. That isn’t the case these days.read more »