Pictured below is a ceramic block on a necklace, hand made by Gaff & Martha Pearce
in Lewisville, North Carolina. The duo drove fourteen hours from their studio to get to Detroit, bless their hearts. They don’t have stuff showcased on their website, but I must say there were some pretty cool pieces.
I stepped out into the smoking area of my department and I was startled to find a guy who I’ve been working with for some time, smoking. Just as surprised as I was, he asked me if I smoked… while I was lifting a cigarette to my lips and striking my lighter. We made polite small talk, we talked about the weather, his shoes, my shoes (I must admit, the Imelda in me brought the subject up), and weekend plans. With pleasantries dealt with, he left me to finish my cigarette. Walking back, I stopped in the restroom to wash my hands, (smokers… wash your hands) and I noticed a familiar pair of shoes in the stall. I giggled to myself as I remembered a little story.
Years ago I had a conversation with a smoking buddy, about our day-to-day routine and we got onto the subject about morning ablutions. We heartily agreed all mornings had to start off with coffee. I was, and still am, a light-weight smoker and I didn’t require a cigarette with that first cup of joe. A rabid creature of habit, my friend admitted that a coffee and cigarette was the only way to get up and go this morning. “It’s like intestinal yoga. When you have your cigarette and coffee, it gets stuff moving before you take a shower.” I have to admit, this chemical cocktail does not do the trick for me, but I don’t doubt that it works.
PSBTW: My co-worker, is from Bangalore.
The corporation that I work for sponsors a day where enployees are invited to bring their cars in to showcase. Here are the highlights:
I am very paranoid over what comes in and out of my computers. I’ve got scripts that monitor incoming packets, I pour through logs to see what’s going on in the network at home, I try to make sure that what there’s no malicious things starting from or ending up in my system.
I’m an avid bluetooth fan, for its ease of use and implementation in a lot of devices that I find cool. I’ve had confidence that my machine was safe at work, until this afternoon. I got back from a meeting and I noticed a small window saying that I had a received a picture from a Nokia mobile phone. I clicked on the magnifying glass to see where the image was downloaded and the picture below popped up. My computer was set up to automatically receive files from stray bluetooth devices. Pissed off, I poured through the ‘Bluetooth’ preference panel in ‘System Preferences’. Under the sharing properties of ‘Bluetooth File Exchange’, I opted for the rule “Refuse all”
