Barrymore's Bar in Lincoln, Nebraska is unique. It is located in the backstage area of what used to be the Stuart Theatre. You enter the bar through an alley. The bar entrance was the performer's stage door when the theatre opened in 1929.
I am a Bill Gates fan. I think he is prescient. He is valuable. He blazes a bright path in the dark where others fear to tread.
He's also smart enough to know nothing lasts forever -- except for infamy and shame -- and his decision to leave Microsoft on his own terms and on his own timetable demonstrates he knows how to do the right thing even if it may bring him personal heartbreak of purpose and insecurity of mind.
There's nothing better than talking to a robot on the phone at 11:00pm when you've been waiting over 15 hours for a delivery of a vital computer part to arrive from UPS into the root of your urban core.
My advice in defeating the UPS robot call center is to just keep saying, -- Agent! -- over and over and over again at every prompt until the robot voice lady gives up and chillingly feeds you into the queue to speak to a real live person with the personality of a robot.
In my neighborhood in the Jersey City Heights my regular UPS guy is great.
When I was growing up in Nebraska, my family was famous for always telling its young, "Never write something you don't want read out loud to the rest of the world."
That sort of advice, bundled in a warning, and wrapped in a grin and punctuated by a pointing finger, was daunting for a group of nine-year-old cousins to comprehend as we scrawled our names in crayon on a Big Chief pencil tablet.
Do, you, like, to, use, commas, as, if, they, are, running, out, of, style?
I don't like commas and I avoid them.
My students, on the other hand, as well as many amateur authors, use commas as if they were free by the bushelful and need to be crammed into every bramble and sigh.
I never add a comma before an "and" though many people employ a comma there.
Here is the definitive list of Top Ten Chick Cars -- and when we say "Chick Cars" we mean these are cars women should drive and no self-respecting man should be caught dead driving or even riding shotgun -- because these cars have feminine curves, engaging personalities and bleed XX chromosomes.
Yesterday my young, attractive and obviously upwardly mobile neighbor -- I don't know her name and she's lived in her apartment a year to my four years -- was in the hallway with me when her Chinese food order was delivered.
The delivery guy waved at me. We are good friends because he delivers a brown rice lunch special to me at least four times a week.
After 20 years of using only DOS and Windows I am slowly making the switch over to the keen new Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro computers.
With an entry point of $1,000.00 USD for the MacBook there are going to be a lot of new sales to Windows Heathens like me who can't resist a bite into an Apple running an Intel chip especially when our lives are becoming more and more image and video manipulation.
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