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.

Hey, New Guy? Don't take my power supply home with you over the weekend. If you're not going to be here before I show up, it's really annoying.

Hey, New Guy? Don't take my power supply home with you over the weekend.

I think you should smite him now.

Is it wrong that I can't stand one of Owen's classmates? This is the kid who called him an idiot on the playground the first week of school. He's also incredibly insolent (for a six year old) to me when I'm volunteering in the classroom. I've tried to like him. But he's a shit. Today he pushed Owen out of line when they were lining up to go to music class. RIGHT in front of me. I don't know if I should mention it to his teacher at our IEP meeting this afternoon or if it will make me look like a nervous mom. Or worse, just a mean person.