stories

People, places, and and the uncommonplace telling stories as they travel with Morganica (Cynthia Morgan) in mind and memory; neighbors, friends, and findings

26 05, 2008

Army of weekend daddies

2015-11-07T16:31:18-08:00

“Excuse me,” said the man beside the dairy case, politely, “But can you help me?” I’d watched his son zooming around on rollerball sneakers earlier, swooshing in circles around my cart until his father brought him to heel. The son, about 7, had grinned at me sheepishly, “Sorry,” and hurried back to where his father stood, frowning at a list [...]

Army of weekend daddies2015-11-07T16:31:18-08:00
26 05, 2008

You mean this little box runs the network?

2020-05-05T15:26:33-07:00

Then there was the time, at my first tech journalist job, when the entire network crashed right before deadline. Just died. –snick– Pandemonium, everyone running around screaming (especially the ad sales people, whose commissions depended on the info in the servers), and the managing editor bravely dragging out the hot wax and paper for some old-fashioned newspaper-style layout. Our parent [...]

You mean this little box runs the network?2020-05-05T15:26:33-07:00
27 04, 2008

Glassist’s birthday cake: A recipe

2015-02-03T11:43:01-08:00

Serves 12... if you can find the plates Blow the dust off your old recipe box and pull out that superb three-years-in-development recipe for your award-winning Triple-Chocoholic cake. No recipe. Recall the time you were late for the hotshop, needed a couple of index cards to line up colored powder on the marver like cocaine on a mirror, and the [...]

Glassist’s birthday cake: A recipe2015-02-03T11:43:01-08:00
23 04, 2008

Angel eyes and vaporizers

2020-11-26T12:54:44-08:00

Lani of Bullseye posted a short on how the company uses cryogenics and vaporizers to cut their natural gas use. I had to chuckle because I have fond memories of that equipment. You see, when those vaporizers were installed I was sitting about 20 feet away, taking a class from Catharine Newell. That class was hitting my brain like a 10-pound [...]

Angel eyes and vaporizers2020-11-26T12:54:44-08:00
1 04, 2008

Angela’s earrings

2016-05-15T15:49:25-07:00

OK, you gotta follow me a bit here. Anybody ever catch an episode of Lost in Space, the scifi-with-a-moral TV show of my childhood? Not the movie, the TV show! No? OK, try this: “DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!!” Got it now? Good. Now…remember the daughter? […]

Angela’s earrings2016-05-15T15:49:25-07:00
1 12, 2007

Virtual peephole

2020-05-05T15:28:07-07:00

Chatting with an old friend the other day, I mentioned a former colleague. "He's now working at ---, right?" "Nope. From what I hear he kinda went ballistic. He's not there, anyway. Don't know what he's doing now." When I knew him, he was a wild-eyed radical, desperate for white collar security or maybe a middle-class suburbian ashamed of liking [...]

Virtual peephole2020-05-05T15:28:07-07:00
24 11, 2007

Ironically yours

2023-11-25T11:11:11-08:00

Am I the only one who remembers irony? Got into a bit of a Facebook thing with a woman who was bemoaning the death of Thanksgiving. She said it had been murdered by the crass commercialism of Black Friday, thanks to crass commercialist shoppers crassly trampling over each other to buy crass commercialist electronic plastic crap that was, well, crass. [...]

Ironically yours2023-11-25T11:11:11-08:00
11 11, 2007

When the doctor is a jerk…

2020-03-02T07:43:18-08:00

Read Scott Haig's latest dissection of his patients, "When the patient is a Googler," and I've got to wonder if this guy sat out the part of his training that dealt with managing patients, bedside manner, compassion, humanity, that silly thing where Hippocrates suggested that doing no harm was a good idea... Haig, an orthopod, writes entertainingly about those noisome [...]

When the doctor is a jerk…2020-03-02T07:43:18-08:00
4 11, 2007

Drive-by viewing

2017-02-02T14:20:14-08:00

Headed out to drop off my ballot (yeah, yeah, I'm late) and buy some baby food (don't ask), stopped at the red light and glanced at the van waiting in front of me. Its rear view mirror was moving. Huh? Looked again, and it wasn't a rear-view mirror, it was a video screen. There was some sort of children's video [...]

Drive-by viewing2017-02-02T14:20:14-08:00
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