short takes

[cellio]

Yesterday's mail brought a lovely magnet from browngirl based on the Kipling poem "Helen All Alone", which I had not previously read. Good call and beautiful art!

We're playing D&D this Saturday, which means we can have a longer session than when we play on a weeknight. I'm looking forward to it.

And now a few links:

A really interesting article on how to interview candidates for software jobs (link provided by goljerp).

Buy T-shirts and more from the Total Information Awareness store! This is the Orwellian logo they don't use any more. (Link provided by a co-worker.)

Everyday etiquette hell (source forgotten). Put the Coke down first. Really. Either that, or plan to clean your monitor.

Comments

speaking of package

[rectangularcat]

I hope that you got the West Wing video in time. I had to mail it from here when I realized on Friday that I was planning to go North instead of South last weekend. I actually ended up not leaving the house but that's a different story.

I had to run to the post office 10 minutes before it closed to mail the tape, so I didn't get a chance to personalize it but I am sure you'll get a good laugh at the French TV shows at the end of your tape. There's a really energetic karaoke-style show that even a non-French speaker can enjoy. Each week of it is different and I think that there are two episodes of it on your tape. It's called La Fureur .

Om an aside, I am really enjoying the everyday etiquette link above.

Re: speaking of package

[cellio]

The package arrived today, so tonight we will sit down for a nice double-header. :-) Thank you for sending it! (Sorry you did extra running around on my account, though.) I'm looking forward to seeing the French karaoke; it might even be helpful that I don't know French. :-) (My husband grew up in Winipeg and then Toronto, so he nominally knows French -- or at least, was exposed to it along the way.)

Re: speaking of package

[rectangularcat]

No problem about the tape. Anytime really!

The post office is 2 blocks from here so the running wasn't too tiresome and it got be out of the house!

Hope you enjoyed the karaoke, ha ha. I wonder if your husband thought he'd be leaving us pesky French Canadians behind forever.