School district bans holiday decorations.

My friend Mike says:
"In further news, Yonkers children are only allowed to sing the song “Here Comes Santa Claus” with the new abridged title “Here Comes a Calorically Challenged Person with a Broad Sense of Excitement over the General Holiday Season.” It doesn’t have the same rhythm and none of the lines rhyme, but thankfully no one is offended anymore. Apparently school officials are also looking into making the Easter holiday less controversial by not allowing children to draw or mention rabbits or bunnies, and instead reviving the Whatzit creature from the 1996 Olympics, which is vague and confusing enough that no one could possibly be offended."

My God is better than your God

] Mencal is a simple variation of the well-known unix
] command cal. The main difference is that you can have
] some periodically repeating days highlighted in color.
] This can be used to track menstruation (or other) cycles
] conveniently.

I'm not sure why I'm blogging this.

Menstruation calendar

There are so many things that are interesting in this article, my head is spinning.

Bob is, simply, brilliant

someone finally cut out the middle man on web development. A full multimedia experience (make sure your speakers are plugged in)

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Mitchie Brusco seems like your average 5-year-old boy.

He loves Power Rangers and his favorite movie is ``Spider-Man.'' He spends hours on swing sets, and he still thinks school will be fun once he attends.

But when Mitchie hops onto a skateboard, he is anything but average.

He is becoming one of biggest -- and smallest -- sensations in Northwest skateboarding.

Mitchie, who lives in Kirkland, is a skateboarding prodigy -- already sponsored by six different companies.

He has won his past three competitions, including the first-place trophy at the 8-and- under Northwest League Competition held in Portland in June.

The win earned Mitchie an all-expenses-paid trip to the Gravity Games in Cleveland, one of the biggest skateboarding events in North America.

``Everybody has a talent,'' said his mother, Jennifer Brusco. ``I think he just found his sooner than most.''

southcountyjournal.com - Skating prodigy, 5, turning heads

] "Who is Ed Bacon? For starters he is the father of Kevin
] Bacon. But more importantly, he is the architect who
] created LOVE Park, Dilworth Plaza (in front of City Hall)
] and the Municipal Services plaza. Basically he is the
] accidental genius behind creating the perfect atmosphere
] for street skateboarding.
]
] So why is he protesting? Ed Bacon thinks it's a shame
] that the city is turning its back on skateboarders."

What is it about age that makes people so closed minded. Why is it that this story seems ironic?

92 Years Old Ed Bacon Skateboards in LOVE Park

I have always said that the information revolution paralleled the industrial revolution very closely. For anyone who has worked in the IT industry, this is so obvious.

Hi-tech workplace no better than factories

Not work friendly.

Who knew math could be so arousing

While these sorts of things don't irk me nearly as much as when I had a job and had Things To Do(tm), they still seem to creep into much of the consulting work I do now, and I don't relish seeing them again when/if I rejoin the workforce.

Email Ettiquette for Busy People

Someone needs to do a non-ironic version of this site and feature several notable Tennesseans.

Two Crazy White People