It Keeps Gettin’ Better…

by philrw
46 words - 1 min read
Personal

Today I emailed the person who interviewed me for that new job because it had been a while. I didn’t get the job. They didn’t even have the courtesy to mass email the applicants who didn’t make it.

No Job.

No house.

No girl.

No car.

Bitter Osophy of the Moment

by philrw
23 words - 1 min read
Osophy

To coin an aphorism,

When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window.

Just so he can slam it on your fingers.

Examining Vanity Plates

by philrw
21 words - 1 min read
Auto Personal

I saw a license plate today that read: 8EZBNME and I thought, “No it probably isn’t easy being a Medical Examiner.”

Reunions, Sonatas, and Jobs, oh my!

by philrw
372 words - 2 min read
Personal
My ten-year high school reunion was last weekend. I paid cough 80-plus dollars for my single ticket. Cash bar. Noisy venue not conducive to talking (think concrete catacomb). Merely adequate catering. No live music or entertainment. No DJ or karaoke. One poorly-uprezed video “slideshow,” most persons being unrecognizable due to the fact of the extreme pixellation and compression artifacting. Crummy “memory book” was basically a multipage booklet with all of our addresses in it. Plus I was one of the only single people there. Oh well, I guess it was good to see a few of my old high school friends, though I had more friends in grades slightly above or below me.
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Osophy on Data Mining

by philrw
37 words - 1 min read
Osophy

Sometimes I find if you concentrate hard enough, you can pull a sparkle of wisdom from the unknown.

Other times it comes to you unwillingly at inopportune moments and you’d best capture it ere it eludes you.