I can’t stand it when people email me Word (or [insert your word processor of choice here]) documents with contents that would be just as meaningful if sent as plain text in an email (or better yet, in a wiki). It adds a whole step for me to get at the information, wastes bandwidth […]

I’m working entirely too late tonight to get a grant application out the door tomorrow. Tonight is game seven in the Pistons/Spurs playoffs. I can hear the cheers from the bars on South U from my office, reminding me that I’m missing a good time over at Vinh’s. They’re projecting the game […]

I have a soft spot in my heart for Wobblies. Some of the coolest, weirdest, most interesting people I’ve ever met are hard core IWW members. I’ve always felt the IWW as an organization matters more as an historical movement than a contemporary one, but they just keep chugging along, fighting against irrelevance. […]

Ypsidixit posted this image of a gravestone in her image heavy post about Ypsilanti’s high-tacky Union-Udell Cemetary.

I couldn’t resist:

At the invitation of blogger and county clerk Larry Kestenbaum, I and other local bloggers attended an informal meeting with Democratic city council candidate Eugene Kang and his campaign manager. Kang is 21, will be a University of Michigan senior, and is running the Democratic primary in the second ward. His opponent in […]

… at least in my case. The University of Michigan, my employer (technically), has engaged on a lengthy and expensive job classification project. The ostensible goal is to have job titles that better match market titles (less ambiguous and/or more accurate), so the U can better peg their compensation rates to market data […]