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Saturday, April 30, 2005

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Hiding Her Face In Shame!   As well she should, since it has been estimated her seemingly innocent deception led to the deaths of 100,000 Iraqi citizens and over 1,500 US servicemen and women stationed there. Put the scarlet letter on her collar, Scottie, and then beam her on down to the locks. Scuttlebutt from the cheap seats in the Coliseum is that we need a human sacrifice, and damn soon, or they're walking out! You hear me, bitch? Next time you change your mind about the wallpaper pattern in the guest bedroon, it could be you.     6:40:57 PM    comment []

The duck would only partially inflate, but most of the recipes called that an optional step anyway. After a hot bath in boiling water with sherry, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, and honey, it’s time to dry out. There’s a fan on the floor aimed at it, set to the highest speed. It will dry out a little more in the fridge overnight. Next job is to make mandarin pancakes.               2:48:31 PM    comment []

No Chocolate Mess! The Companion Jabir (God be pleased with him) said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) saying: ‘Do not eat with your left hand, because Satan eats and drinks with his left hand.’" (Reported by Muslim.) This tradition reflects the unseen wisdom behind eating and drinking with the right hand, as we see that Satan, who seeks to lead us away from Allah, eats and drinks with the left. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) has taught us a complete system to release ourselves from Satan’s control, and thereby earn the Pleasure of Allah. Of course, one could explore the medical benefits of designating the right hand for eating for example, and the left for less sanitary acts, but this is not the purpose of our answer nor does it reflect the larger picture that we have tried to portray. Thanks again for your question, and please stay in touch. Salaam. Moreover, the left hand should be reserved for removing dirt, as when cleaning oneself after going to the toilet (istinja’) and blowing one’s nose and other kinds of cleaning oneself and removing dirt. How can a person use that which is used for removing dirt and impurities for putting food in his mouth?   11:27:23 AM    comment []

Changes   Yesterday was my last day as an IBMer. Had someone told me, say 30 years ago, that I would end up working for IBM, I would have seriously contemplated suicide. Then, IBM was the perfect embodiment of the corporate monolith, a place where a blue suit was more important than the person wearing it, so it seemed. I’ve changed a little since those days and IBM has changed a lot. It is always in the top ten of Corporate Citizens and has made diversity an integral part of its credo, above and beyond mere legal compliance. In 12 years I have traveled to Tpkyo enough times to almost know my way around there. I’ve been to Korea, China, and Hong Kong. I got to support the ThinkPad, which I’d believe to be the sexiest laptop even if it didn’t sign my paycheck. Most importantly, the work there has been a lot of fun – great people and great challenges.   I’m not going to be unemployed, of course. I’m “transitioning” (learning to make verbs out of nouns has been one of the unexpected side effects of working there) to Lenovo, a new corporate entity partly owned by IBM, some publicly traded shares, but mostly by the Chinese government. Yes, I will be becoming an employee of a communist government. Ironically, the official transition occurs at midnight tonight – May Day!   I’ll be making a Peking duck tomorrow afternoon to commemorate this holiday.   I’ve always wondered about the recipe which begins “Inflate a duck” and then has you eating the burnt skin on pancakes when you’re done. It is authentically Chinese, so that is good enough for me.   Nothing will change on Monday when I return to work. I’ll walk in the same door (albeit with a different badge) and walk to the same cubicle to do the same job. The changes that do come will come slowly and will be mostly inconsequential.     7:03:21 AM    comment []

Are We Not Men?   (The following spam was sent to me by “Meredith Devo”)   Our produce is the novel men's illness curative drug that everybody is discussing. You may mingle them with tipple, they operate much more quickest than any others well known curative drug, you could freely drive or steer heavy mechanism. Our output perforates through the bloodstream straightly instead of going through the stomach accordingly you need only 13 min until your partner feel the consequences. 5:21:42 AM    comment []