Lifehacker is running this lame contest about who has the coolest office.
After five glorious weeks of highlighting user-submitted workspaces, the time has come to narrow down our favorites. To crown this year’s winner, we’re going to choose a favorite from each weeks’ themed entries one at a time and then undertake one final vote-off between the finalists.
Five glorious weeks. We have five glorious weeks of receipts and notes on our desk. That’s real. Not cool, but real.
Here’s a note that says “yada, yada, yada” that may be a little older than five weeks. How about this? Note: If I knit fast, does it count as and Aerobic Exercise. That was a blog idea my wife had. Receipt for drugs (don’t ask.) Some stock tips, EV, TROW, BLK (if you buy these stocks your belt will break and your pants will fall down and you may lose money.) Lots of websites: complaintfreeworld.org, buystitch.com, and a lot of phone numbers written on scraps of paper.
There is also a new man’s shirt on the printer, under a print out from http://antiagingreports.blogspot.com
Lifehacker was looking for an office that is tightly integrated in to the living space. Their entries are all fake. They have to be. You cannot have a dual screen setup and not have a piece of paper visible.
So head over to Lifehacker and vote if you want. I’m waiting for the realest office contest.
I’ve read a lot of Memorial Day blogs, stories in newspapers, and seen a lot of TV segments. They usually include something like: “s/he died (was wounded) for something s/he believed in.” This also applies to people heading to Iraq. A mom or dad will say, s/he believes in what they are doing.”
Maureen at My Midlife Safari writes
For my step-son who is a captain in the army stationed in Germany and waiting to be deployed to Iraq again I have nothing but respect and gratitude. Why? Because he walks his talk. He believes in what he is doing and he acts on that belief. I admire that.
I asked her to explain and hopefully she will comment here.
When one says “I believe” and is facing danger:
Does it mean s/he supports the war? Believes in following orders? Believes in our country and it’s leaders?
I’m not being snarky. I’m really curious what folks mean when they say “s/he believes in what they are doing.”
I have this is a feeling that one must have before facing danger. If one doesn’t believe – then doubt plays a part.
I’ve never had to put my life on the line under orders. But I think the reasons to believe may be slightly different for each person.
Do you hunt and peck when you type or are you a touch typist? I’m a toucher, but not very proficient. My wife is an excellent typist and gets a real kick out of proofreading my stuff because of all the typos. I often forget to spell check and hit publish and then go back and correct things (sometimes).
There’s an interesting post at Freakonomics about the merits of the Dvorak keyboard and the QWERTY keyboard. The Dvorak keyboard was designed to make typing for efficient and replace the QWERTY keyboard which allegedly was created to slow down typists to prevent key jams on manual typewriters.
Sounds like emotions run high.
But then another commenter (saharvetes) linked to this furious letter to the editor that appeared in the next issue of Reason. Randy Cassingham, who wrote the letter, also wrote a book called The Dvorak Keyboard in 1986.
One of the commenters is proficient in both. The old pat your head/rub your stomach deal times ten I would think.
