We have a Helmand in Cambridge too - so delicious. In fact, my current commute - the shuttle from North Station to Kendall - takes me right by it every morning! YUM! I think the 2 owners (in Cambridge and in SF) are related.

Though my brother says he catches himself humming Wiggles songs in the lab, which earn him funny looks from his coworkers.

Fruit salad, yummy yummy.

I can't get the Wiggles' Fruit Salad song out of my head, but all I remember is the refrain (which sometimes I think is what causes my earworms--the brain is trying to recapture a whole work, and the earworm remains until it succeeds, or gives up).

sara, have you survived the cuts at your company?

oh, thank heaven -- no BART strike. Guess that means I go to work after all.

Apparently. Unless they are dragging out the process throughout the week. It actually won't be complete for another month, but this group's round would be this week and done.

Shit. This means I have to do my stupid goals for next year.

Though my brother says he catches himself humming Wiggles songs in the lab, which earn him funny looks from his coworkers.

I have a recording of the Wiggles covering an AC/DC song. It's fun.

Goal 1: to slack off a lot more so the next round of layoffs will get me before I have to make up goals again.

Dude.

Dresses with va va voom.

(link stolen from dressaday.com)

Dresses with va va voom.

Want! They even have a perfect one for Jesse!

la la la...no dresses for me!

Americans are dumb. That's what Toyota said. OK, not really. But recently Toyota chose to build a new factory in Ontario, rather than in the American south (where a lot of foreign car companies have their American factories) - despite being offered much higher subsidies by American states.

Several U.S. states were reportedly prepared to offer more than double that amount of subsidy. But Fedchun said much of that extra money would have been eaten away by higher training costs than are necessary for the Woodstock project.

He said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained - and often illiterate - workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.

"The educational level and the skill level of the people down there is so much lower than it is in Ontario," Fedchun said.

In addition to lower training costs, Canadian workers are also $4 to $5 cheaper to employ partly thanks to the taxpayer-funded health-care system in Canada, said federal Industry Minister David Emmerson.

We suck.

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Oh, and foreign car companies usually locate their American factories in the south, as auto factory workers in the south usually aren't unionized.