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Eminem

If your supervisor is getting you down, maybe you should ask yourself: “just how super does this supervisor think he/she is?” Are they really nothing more than a big visor that is casting a shadow on you and your department?

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 22, 2003 | Comments (0)

The bagpipe guild

I was biking down the hill in Prospect Park the other day and heard what sounded like bagpipes. I scanned the woods as they scrolled by and sure enough: bagpipes. Not on a walking path or near a bench - just some large man in a kilt in the middle of some bushes playing a bagpipe.

This led me first, to laugh. Then I got to wondering about bagpipes. Are there really (recognizable) bagpipe songs? Is there such thing as bad bagpipe players? I think I saw a bad bagpipe player in a movie once, but never in real life. Maybe you learn the bagpipes in solitude out in the mountains and are allowed back only when you master them, now officially a man.

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 15, 2003 | Comments (0)

Public PA

This is a public service announcement about cleaning supplies: We, as a community are all switching to peppermint scented products – everything from toothpaste to windex to, yes, "Mentha X piperita pine-sol" floor cleaner. This way all of our rivers will smell minty fresh and that will be quite nice for a change.

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 07, 2003 | Comments (0)

I have known myself forever

Can you quote yourself about something you are just now saying for the first time?

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 07, 2003 | Comments (0)

Things I've learned from dying

I’m having my reoccuring dream again where I’m in a plane and it runs into a mechanical problem on takeoff and starts to tumble towards the earth, but this time I am an old man and I am ready for death. There is a younger woman next to me and I reach out to hold her hand and comfort her. Instead of holding my hand she clamps down on it – a real death grip, and I feel her anxiety. Being empathetic I start to feel anxious all over again. Some things never change.

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 01, 2003 | Comments (0)