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An unremarkable day...
Mar. 21st, 2003 10:22 pmThe usual drill, except for the pervasive feeling of not having gotten anything done.
Galina bought a bunch of stuff for the store on eBay, but I'm frankly not in the mood to go through the resulting mountain of e-mail right now. I'm in a prime procrastinatory (is that a word?) mood.
Speaking of Galina, she's over at the kids' place right now, babysitting for Huntur. I was elected to stay behind and chase paper. I've done some, but now I face the prospect of editing the Mother of All Excel Macros (MAEM?), and I think I'll do that tomorrow. I also need to develop another spreadsheet, on the basis of advice from our CPA.
I'm sure I'll have a better attitude tomorrow.
No kidding!
* * * On a whim, I went over to the "usual" Russian news sites to check out their coverage of the Iraq action.
Yech.
The Russian online press - which tends toward the Michael Moore school of fact-checking (i.e., none) - really outdid themselves this time. The media that told its audience, in the wake of 9/11, that the U.S. was definitely going to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan, is now making all sorts of wild claims that even outfits like ABC News and the New York Times, bless their objective little hearts (and they do have an objective), cannot match.
The City of 'One Thousand and One Nights' Is No More reports utro.ru, in a typical outing. Elsewhere on the page are teaser graphics, such as "IRAQ: Events do not follow Washington's plans" (one likes to think the editors at this site don't have a copy of Washington's plans) and "War on the ground: generals shocked" (which may be turn out to be true if the C3 structure is as fubared on the Iraqi side as is beginning to be suspected).
Of course, what I find ironic is the graphic that reads, "Iraq: Only confirmed facts," implying that the people running the site actually care about the truth.
Anyway, that's enough about that. Soon, media types will replace lawyers in the famous exchange that begins, "How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?" (Answer: The lawyer's lips are moving.)
Cheers...
Galina bought a bunch of stuff for the store on eBay, but I'm frankly not in the mood to go through the resulting mountain of e-mail right now. I'm in a prime procrastinatory (is that a word?) mood.
Speaking of Galina, she's over at the kids' place right now, babysitting for Huntur. I was elected to stay behind and chase paper. I've done some, but now I face the prospect of editing the Mother of All Excel Macros (MAEM?), and I think I'll do that tomorrow. I also need to develop another spreadsheet, on the basis of advice from our CPA.
I'm sure I'll have a better attitude tomorrow.
No kidding!
Yech.
The Russian online press - which tends toward the Michael Moore school of fact-checking (i.e., none) - really outdid themselves this time. The media that told its audience, in the wake of 9/11, that the U.S. was definitely going to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan, is now making all sorts of wild claims that even outfits like ABC News and the New York Times, bless their objective little hearts (and they do have an objective), cannot match.
The City of 'One Thousand and One Nights' Is No More reports utro.ru, in a typical outing. Elsewhere on the page are teaser graphics, such as "IRAQ: Events do not follow Washington's plans" (one likes to think the editors at this site don't have a copy of Washington's plans) and "War on the ground: generals shocked" (which may be turn out to be true if the C3 structure is as fubared on the Iraqi side as is beginning to be suspected).
Of course, what I find ironic is the graphic that reads, "Iraq: Only confirmed facts," implying that the people running the site actually care about the truth.
Anyway, that's enough about that. Soon, media types will replace lawyers in the famous exchange that begins, "How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?" (Answer: The lawyer's lips are moving.)
Cheers...
