Most of the time I write code for businesses that do not use it. More specifically, I write custom management reports that the client pays for, and then they never bother to print out the report ever again. Oh, sometimes they do print them, but then there’s usually some sort of unpleasant political shoot-out in […]

I have a nodding acquaintance with a Korean banker at the gym. I suppose I should explain that. I have a nodding acquaintance with a Korean banker in my aerobics class at the gym. Hmm… Let’s try that again. 1.) Ten years ago my then doctor told me that I needed to; change my diet, […]

My middle name is Dow. It’s one of those ancestral last names that my family always inserts into the middle of a male child’s name to commemorate the owner of the first land grant from King George III in 1783. Which makes us sound far more regal than a farming family from the east coast […]

A programmer walks into the gym Tuesday. Once again, it is an apparently normal day. As usual he has been forced to arrive 30 minutes before his aerobics class in order to find a parking space. However, today there were many parking spaces. He now finds himself seated on the carpeted floor of the aerobics […]