The Lobby

In the day when websites tried to imitate the real world you might see a home page labeled The Lobby. From there you could link to the Barbershop and get a trim or shoot the breeze. Suddenly an avatar from the Andy Griffith Show would pop in with a problem - a billygoat was chewing the hoses people used to water their lawns. Users of the website pick their own avatar from the Griffith show, or Coronet Blue and try to solve the problem.

In this competitive environment, we need to maintain productivity at it’s highest level and to

This is Charlie Anders one of the great science fiction humor writers of our time and host of Writers with Drinks at the Makeout Room in San Francisco (across from the Deer Creeke Inn).

BTW, I found this sentence in a technical writing white paper:
"In this competitive environment, we need to maintain productivity at it’s highest level and to minimize any activities that squanders our precious workday." I guess we also need to work on our noun / verb agreement.

Shakespeare Infant

Victor Hugo is said to have remarked about Arthur Rimbaud, "Shakespeare Infant!" The French Twin Cities , birth place of Rimbaud, celebrate him every year in September.