3 Years: Remembering mach

of course we remember.

the wisdom. the laughter. the warmth. the trouble-making.

it's absolutely crucial we do.

for ourselves, for those we'll teach and guide.

the impression he made in so many of us was deep and indelible. (even if it was in lowercase ;-0

mach, we miss you.

<from his school. from his company.>

Minding the Snore in the NY Press

Last year's sleep test experience just got published in The New York Press's 8 Million Stories column, "Minding the Snore."

Please go read, rate and comment it.

Email Jacking Lessons from Mom

My mother taught me how to "email jack" — using a form letter created by an organization one does not agree with and changing the pre-purposed content to something more amenable to your views and then sending it on. This one was a form letter from an AFA Action Alert to complain to the AAA that they had recognized gay couples as, get this, real married couples in their coverage. I simply edited the pre-filled in text to thank the AAA for recognizing gay couples as real married couples in their coverage.

Now I'm on the listserv for AFA Action Alerts which are amusing and creepy. The next one I saw was anti-health care.