Hmmm, I have four places to be this weekend. If one place counts as I've invited people to come over to watch SciFi Friday with me.
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
time-sucking "red square" game
11.22 seconds
Best I've done so far is just under 23 seconds.
One of my places-to-be does involve medical treatment, so there's that.
I came into the office every single day this week. First time in a couple months, pathetically.
MMM, Devil's Food Cake -- that's what I want.
Someone tell me to stop reading coverage of Michael Brown's testimony, since there is nothing convenient to hit here at the office.
Whoops. CEO's assistant just forwarded to me and my boss an email from a client to CEO explaining a project we need to write up for him. And somehow neglected to delete this little gem from the closing of the email:
Don't much like being yelled at even if you consider it a virtue. m.
Ouch. Not many of his clients' who'd dare go that far even.
Dana, this probably won't help: Now Iraqi women can be STONED to DEATH for adultery! Thank BUSH!
Now Tom, nobody anticipated fudamentalist Islamists coming to power if Hussein was removed.
Try this instead -- New Yorker interview with a fortune cookie writer (from last year):
At first, the writing came easily. Finding inspiration in sources ranging from the I Ching to the Post, Lau cranked out three or four maxims a day, between scrutinizing spreadsheets and monitoring the company’s inventory of chow mein. “I’d be on the subway and look up at the signs and think, Hey, that would make a great fortune,” he said. (One such adage: “Beware of odors from unfamiliar sources.”)
Why bottled water is bad, evidently written by someone who's not tasted the water around here.