Category: In Which We Mock Our Employers

Even though I forgot her birthday entirely, I did remember to wish Friend #3 a happy Rosh Hashanah today. It’s the first day of the Hebrew year 5769 (or so sayeth Google). I’ve been trying to keep up with the Jewish holidays. Still, Wikipedia doesn’t discern, so I don’t know that Tishah B’Av isn’t worth an “I’m…

My last Huge Project, before the Super-Secret Project, was the Death by Chemistry Project. We filled the test at the end with imaginative “real-life disaster” scenarios. It was ghoulish. We had a tornado hit an airport where containers of surface-cleaning acid spilled out on an parking lot that led to a propane tank yard next…

(Cosmos and Damian are the twin brother patron saints of chemistry.) I’ve been doing Instructional Designer duty on this Chemistry project; that is, I write the instructional text instead of programming the on-line instruction. Last Friday I typed these words: “When the gas reacts with moisture in the tissues, particularly in the lungs, it produces…