Author: Tom Faranda
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Slightly old joke (slightly funny)
Two boys in Boston were playing baseball when one of them was attacked by a rabid Rotweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy ripped a board off of a nearby fence, wedged it into the dog’s collar and twisted it, breaking the dog’s neck. A newspaper reporter from the Boston Globe witnessed the incident and rushed…
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Top Ten Things to Say if You Are Caught Sleeping at Your Desk
This is off the Luskin website: TOP TEN THINGS TO SAY IF YOU ARE CAUGHT SLEEPING AT YOUR DESK 10. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen." 9. "This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time management course you sent me to." 8. "Whew! Guess…
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Latest read – “The Elusive Quest for Growth”
This book asks and attempts to answer the following question: How do you raise the standard of living of the vast numbers of people living in terrible poverty in the undeveloped (the third) world? The sub-title of this book is “Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics”. It was written by William Easterly, who was…
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More on John Lillis
Here is the Journal News front page article on my neighbor down the street, who I wrote about in the previous post. It’s a good article with extensive quotes by the Church pastor, Fr. Mike Keane. Two communities reeling in aftermath of fatal crash. Unfortunately they refer to John as the "Grand Wizard" of the…
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A bad day in Croton-on-Hudson
In fact it was a really bad day – an awful day. This morning (Wednesday) our friend and my assistant Judy came over to the house at 8:30 with the terrible news that a neighbor of mine, who lived at the end of the street, had been killed the previous evening in a car crash.…