Driveby:

One of the people in this client org chart I'm looking at is named Leafy Quakenbush. Seriously?

-t, was this in California? I'm asking cause I remember hearing that abalone can only be taken by free diving and I think that it's cool.

Kat, yeah, it was California, up by Fort Ross, and free diving. My dad had gone abalone diving all my life, but I never tried it until we took a scuba class together. you can't so much sight-see with the free diving, obviously, but you also aren't carrying pounds of equipment on your back going in and out of the water. Bobbing around with just the wetsuit and weightbelt in between dives is pretty fun on its own. I practiced and practiced prying abalone off of rocks with the tool but ended up just being an extra license and a bag carrier for the more experienced divers. Still fun, though. And, of course, delicious.

Stormtroopers are comedy gold.

The info number I just called at a hospital for getting info on evalution services? It's a recording and answering machine. The department returns call on Friday. ONLY. really?!?

Now to call two more hospitals. not optomistic.

On a weekly conference call and half the folks haven't called in. Seeing as there are only 4 of us in the meeting, it is kinda odd. Love Monday mornings (heavy, dripping sarcasm font).

Stormtroopers are comedy gold.

Now I wanna see Waiting for Godot with Vladimir and Estragon as Stormtroopers. Of course, it would be called Waiting for Vader.

My mother taught me a very important lesson when I was about 10 or 11: if there is something you don't want to do, never learn how to do it and you will never have to. This was taught to me in the context of cleaning fish (which my mom has never learned to do) and I carried over into other areas of my life.

I believe my cow-orker practices this regularly at work.

IOworkN, it looks like even though our division is up 10+%, our group did not make it numbers (yet again), so it looks like even the small bonus I was hoping for will not come through. On the upside, this means I could leave at any point, since I'm not going to lose a bonus by doing so. Yay?

Oh dear god. Teppy, ignore this or else you'll be compelled to burn a t-shirt factory down....

Helvetica

Boing Boing sez:

Here's a shirt that's bound to infuriate your type-obsessed pals: the word Helvetica, set in Comic Sans.

Helvetica tee is type-nerd-bait

Yay, I just got two restaurant week reservations. I've never done restaurant week before.

Here's a shirt that's bound to infuriate your type-obsessed pals: the word Helvetica, set in Comic Sans.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

I should buy that for The Boy's brother,

Does this mean France is better than us?

In a surprise ruling last month, France’s highest court – la Cour de Cassation – ruled that an employee was wrongly dismissed for downloading smut to their work PC.

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He then took the matter to the Cour de Cassation. The two chief grounds for contesting his dismissal were that Peugeot had no right to access his files, as they were personal; and that passive use of an IT tool for limited personal ends was not a contravention of his terms of contract, so long as this practice did not impact his performance.

To the surprise of many, the second argument was upheld.

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This leaves the French position (shush) on workplace porn just that bit more liberal than the UK one, where the default assumption appears to be that smut is de facto evidence of sexual harassment (a bad thing!) or inappropriate conduct (also a bad thing) and in either case, perfectly good grounds for dismissal.