Posts by Azuka
Over billed
The guy behind the counter at the corner shop [the only other place I shop besides Amazon.com] is usually cleanshaven and amiable looking. When I walked in last night, he was sporting a goatee and looking as if he’d been on drugs. I spent quite a while doing some shopping, reluctant as always to head […]
Sportsmanship?
I wiped my sweaty hands on my towel and waited at the table’s edge, knees bent slightly, my bat — “paddle” as it’s called here — at the ready. AngryPlayer* the Pakistani, executed one of those crazy serves he used to get me with the last time we played. It landed on my side and […]
Near Disaster
My friend Samuel took me to Walmart last night. On a whim I decided to pick some sausage-and-pepperoni pizza — I think I’ve begun to like pizza. I followed the instructions on the back of the box — put the pizza in an oven and bake for 18 minutes. Unfortunately, my ‘oven’ was my microwave […]
Designers vs. Developers
I’m in charge of overhauling a site (http://www.i55.org) and moving it to Joomla. Here’s the test site [before it goes live]. I’ve been slaving away at this site for quite a while, rewriting components to fit the design I was given as much as possible. I proffer my work to the client, and he’s quite […]
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Bring it on
This week’s been hectic — I made a B in my last Computer Architecture test, but my above 100 score on the previous one [gotten through a bonus[, still leaves me with an A average. What’s this obsession with making all As? I whipped my friend Raymond into a frenzy when I told him the […]