Posts tagged ‘personal’
The Association of Associated Associations
November 30th, 2010 at 8:30 pm by Dr. Drang
Hey, I just got an email from John H. Graham IV, President and CEO of ASAE, The Center for Association Leadership: Whether it’s for business, professional or cause-related reasons, those who belong to membership organizations have a special bond. We at ASAE, the association of association professionals, know that membership organizations offer a wide variety…
25 or 64
November 30th, 2010 at 9:19 am by Dr. Drang
To quell the Paul-hatred inspired by that last post, let me point out that this was the song my wife and I picked for the first dance at our wedding, twenty-five years ago today. Happy anniversary, Janet. Mine for evermore.
iBook flash
November 17th, 2010 at 10:54 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been predicting the end of my 12″ iBook G4 ever since the announcement that Snow Leopard would be Intel-only, but here I am, still typing on it almost six years after I bought it. This can’t go on much longer, though. In addition to its inability to run Snow Leopard—and all the applications that…
Netnotworking
November 11th, 2010 at 11:23 pm by Dr. Drang
Once upon a time, all a family needed for an evening’s entertainment was a couple of good reading lamps and a TV antenna on the roof. Tonight I came home to an AirPort that was flashing amber and causing the AirPort Utility to launch with dire warnings on every connected Mac. Even though all the…
I’m calling it
October 26th, 2010 at 10:30 am by Dr. Drang
My weight on January first was 195 pounds, and it’s been 180 for three of the past four days, so I’m officially declaring my goal of a 15-pound weight loss to be met. I fully expect to be above 180 again, but as you can see I was often above 195 early in the year,…
Old books and MS Word 3
October 13th, 2010 at 3:45 pm by Dr. Drang
I got this book a couple of weeks ago through an interlibrary loan and was struck by how much it looks like what it is: an engineering book published in the ’70s. I showed it to a friend who’s about the same age as me and asked him when he thought it was published. Without…
Latch repair
June 27th, 2010 at 1:57 pm by Dr. Drang
A few weeks ago, a latch on our computer desk stopped working. It’s the spring-loaded latch on the keyboard drawer that keeps the drawer front in a vertical position, hiding the keyboard, when the drawer is pushed in. The spring in the latch broke, so the hook on the left side of the latch would…
Lipoproteins and Simplenote
June 6th, 2010 at 7:22 am by Dr. Drang
Has this ever happened to you? You’re at a party and head into the kitchen for a snack. The room is filled with hot babes who surround you and…ask you about your cholesterol numbers. If it hasn’t, that’s probably because you haven’t reached middle age. Cholesterol is slowly turning into a standard topic of conversation…
And how did you waste your evening?
April 20th, 2010 at 9:47 pm by Dr. Drang
I wasted mine trying to install this hanging ladder for my ten-year-old in one of the finished rooms in our basement. The hardware that the ladder hangs from is supposed to be lagged into ceiling joists. The room has a drywall ceiling, but I know which way the joists run, and the various ducts and…
Word up
April 12th, 2010 at 10:24 pm by Dr. Drang
My wife and I are taking over some local volunteer work from another couple, and last week I had to send out some information sheets on the program, a program description and a registration form. The previous volunteers emailed me their versions of the sheets, so it should have been a simple matter of replacing…
