http://www.pleonast.com/user/two recent pleonast.com entries by user two en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=616422 Should I get a candy bar? The 2009 calendar has motorcycles instead of cars. Is it too early to plan for the 2010 calendar? I think maybe I'll get something music related next year. Talk about getting ahead of myself! This diversion did not eliminate the hunger pangs, so off to the candy machine I go! 2009-01-06 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=614238 may the new year's beginning be a beginning of contentment for each of you. 2008-12-30 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=608808 2008-12-12 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=599326 "Wheel of Fortune" was in Hawaii this week. Look, there's Pat Sajak with a Hawaiian shirt and very dark spray-on tan! I don't watch the show closely, but it's usually on because I turn on the news so that I can see the weather forecast, which I usually miss anyway, and "Wheel" comes on afterward. Sometimes they have what they call "prize puzzles", and whoever wins the round gets a trip. You need to understand that, when they're in Hawaii, the contestants are usually locals. In this case, it was "best friends week", and one pair of best friends won a trip -- to Costa Rica! Please pardon me for not understanding why people who live in what may be the ultimate tropical paradise would be excited about a trip to a second-class tropical paradise. The First Mate And his Skipper, too, Will do their very best. 2008-11-14 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=593011 (When I logged in to post this, I didn't think about the fact that my last post was about cookies. I'm posting it anyway.) Well, the other night my wife got out the package of break-and-bake cookies, and because she didn't have her reading glasses handy, asked me what the instructions were. My reply, of course, was "break and eat". Oh, you wanted the temperature specified on the package? (She did chuckle. :-) 2008-10-29 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=586005 Someone is baking cookies. Having an oven at the office is a wonderful thing. 2008-10-10 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=559289 I think Websense is a guy. Normally, Websense blocks our access to YouTube and to all webmail sites that it knows about (Yahoo!, Gmail, etc.) Today, those sites are available. (I know this because I can see the image for the YouTube embed a couple of posts back.) The logical conclusion is that there's a guy looking at every website typed in, and his job is to select either "allow" or "disallow". Today, that guy stayed home because of the tropical storm. 2008-08-05 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=546747 I was about to delete my old blogs, and I deleted the current entry instead. 2008-07-04 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=544355 I was in a meeting today and someone had a software problem report they needed to sign. He hadn't ever done one of these before, and said he was reluctant to sign. Naturally, the words that popped into my head (but which remained unspoken because of the near certainty that nobody would have understood) were "I'm reluctant to sign anything that has to do with my music." 2008-06-27 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=542494 That's the subject line of a bit of spam in my inbox today. I presumed it to be German for "your PayPal account is locked", but babelfish.altavista.com didn't understand the last word. (Perhaps that's because there should be an ümlaut somewhere.) And look! Babelfish.altavista.com is now babelfish.yahoo.com! It's just as well, because I never used Alta Vista for anything besides the translator. I think I used to have an Alta Vista free email account, but if I still had it, it would now be Yahoo! (I'm not excited about that last sentence — it's just that the Yahoo! company has an exclamation point as part of their name. I think it's a conspiracy.) 2008-06-23