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.

...

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.

...

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.

More conservative attacks on Palin:

Authors: McCain aides worried that Palin was ‘mentally unstable’

According to an advance copy thoroughly dog-ear'd by The New York Times, some McCain staffers who worked directly with Palin began to worry that she could be "mentally unstable."

After her misstatements and outright lies repeatedly caused the campaign to stumble and backpedal, a discussion began to emerge: Were McCain to win, how best could they relegate her "to the largely ceremonial role that premodern vice presidents inhabited"?

After all, "it was inconceivable," they wrote, "if McCain fell ill or died, the country be left in the hands of a President Palin," according to the Times.

The book also claims she almost completely neglected preparing for her debate with Vice President Joe Biden, and couldn't even pronounce his name correctly, calling him "O'Biden" repeatedly.

They instead encouraged her to ask, "Can I just call you Joe?"

The former lawmaker is also being targeted by McCain's top political strategist, who gave a tell-all interview to "60 Minutes".

"There were numerous instances that she said things that were – that were not accurate that ultimately, the campaign had to deal with,” said Steve Schmidt. "And that opened the door to criticism that she was being untruthful and inaccurate. And I think that is something that continues to this day."

AND I got a third reservation. YAY. Project eat a nice places before you move is going better than planned (given that I cancelled all ideas of lunches and brunches this coming weekend).