Sparked by a conversation with someone who has Netflix but claims the DVD player doesn’t work: FauxFlixster Someone who has a Netflix queue but doesn’t watch DVDs After hearing that this had gone on for months, I became suspicious that it was just a ruse to somehow impress friends and others: is there a Facebook…
Oatmeal with blueberries, fresh off the vine. The wrongest metaphor is pearls before swine. A stick of cinnamon in black coffee I see. Can I lick the raspberry jam off of your cheek? Tell me you miss me pretty please, and that someday you won’t cut me off at the knees. I’m miles away in…
Ever feel like the deck was stacked against you, that your boss or wife or boyfriend had somehow made it impossible for you to succeed? In the Army, we called that being set up for failure. It sprouted from poor planning, from shirking responsibility, from deliberately withholding resources. (Some might say at this point that…
Seth wrote a nice post called “I’ve got your back.” It reminded me instantly of two very different posts I’ve written that are about the same thing: needing a ranger buddy and character. What do all of these have in common? On the one hand, they’re about trusting someone because that person is trustworthy and…