Archive for December, 2004
Tsunami Disaster Relief
0 Comments and 0 Trackbacks Published by Elana December 30th, 2004 in Volunteer Work & Charitable Giving.My company is offering to match donations to Direct Relief International’s fund for the victims of the tsunami or any other organization responding to the crises. I’m still researching organizations. Right now Oxfam is in the lead because 78% of their donation goes direct to their causes rather than to overhead. [...]
Enter the Crack
0 Comments and 0 Trackbacks Published by Elana December 28th, 2004 in Random Ramblings.For years I’ve avoided MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) such as EverCrackQuest, FFXI, and City of Heros. I had an excuse. I was going for my MBA and didn’t have the time and without the time, why invest the money? Of course, FFXI was easy, it’s not Mac compatible.
Today I [...]
You Can’t Say You Weren’t Warned
0 Comments and 0 Trackbacks Published by Elana December 17th, 2004 in Random Ramblings.On noon on Sunday, Storrow Drive eastbound will begin to divert all traffic heading for I-93 north and US-1 north into a new tunnel. This will involve new traffic patterns and certain delays as not only will they close the road to make the change, but people will be swerving all over the place [...]
I’m currently changing banks. I think I’ve mentioned that here before. Anyhow, I love my new bank. When I make a payment to Best Buy, it actually <gasp> gets sent out electronically that day and it shows up in my credit card account the very next day. No lost checks [...]
I’m in today’s NY Times!
I’m just to the right of the top of the second ‘f’ in Firefox.
Stupid Crane Tricks
0 Comments and 0 Trackbacks Published by Elana December 14th, 2004 in Random Ramblings.Sometimes working in the tranportation industry lends itself to finding amusing photos I can share with my fellow man (or woman). These particular photos, seem to come from Europe. One of my British co-workers has deemed it came from his homeland based on the placement of the steering wheels.
In other news, last night [...]
You have the Vermeer girl look. A Vermeer girlappealed mostly to the old masters of the Dutchschool, who painted pictures of everyday lifeas they knew it. With her fine, fair skin, shesuited a light, natural, dewy make-up. TheVermeer Girl loved homely things, such ashomemade soaps and candles. The followingartists would have liked to paint you; [...]
Reverse the Curve
0 Comments and 0 Trackbacks Published by Elana December 10th, 2004 in Random Ramblings.The ‘Reverse the Curse’ ‘Reverse Curve’ sign is missing from Storrow Drive. I’m guessing because someone decided it was either a) a dumb sign or b) the curse is gone and if they can’t modify it, they’ll just take it! I don’t think the city took it down. They made [...]
