I was stuck in the airport yesterday where CNN first broke the news and they kept showing the cell phone footage of his body on a loop. With the anchors pretty much trying to find new ways of saying there was footage, he was dead, but it was unconfirmed and oh look there's raw footage.

No, he cops to it if I ask it differently. I am willing to say the problem is entirely on his end, you just have to phrase questions so "yes" or something similarly simple and affirmative is not a valid answer. Or you'll get it. Always.

Oy! that would drive me bugfuck in a colleague.

I was listening to a news podcast on the way home and the discussion was that the people of Libya were so terrorized by him that they wanted to see the body to be sure he was dead. I get that impulse and perhaps the people of Libya should have access to this footage if they so desire.

I do question the newscasters in the country showing that crap on loop in a manner that resembles murder/corpse porn. For goodness sake, show it on the news with plenty of warnings once. Then be done with it. It should not show up EVERYWHERE. Most of the people in the US are not that interested in seeing dead bodies everywhere we turn.

I know, what a shocking statement given how many of us watch CSI/NCIS, but those are fictional dead people and special effects. We do not want to see the real thing.

In case anyone is still interested in the tale of a requested strip search at the Scrabble competition, Fatsis at Slate has a good rundown of what all happened.

The basic facts seem to be the same, but he does provide a lot of context. I think I now know more about Scrabble competitions than I perhaps wanted to, but oh well.

I had a friend who competed in international Scrabble competitions (he was Canada's #2), and I really don't want to envision him stripped, no matter what he was trying to convince me of at the time.

Oy! that would drive me bugfuck in a colleague.

It's driving me up the wall right now. And I'm making sure to be as explicit as possible, in order to reflect how I want to be communicated with, but I think it's falling on deaf ears.

Well, the best I can do is keep phrasing carefully, and to explain to his manager his communication style.

On this project that I'm running around on (but that's not the one from hell) we have three new people this week--project manager, business owner, and overall business analyst (I'm the business systems analyst, for all that's different). Now I'm getting ragged on that I'm driving everyone off the project in a power play. I've explained to the developers that I will be getting rid of them next, and no, I won't be installing Visual Studio, I will be writing all the code in Notepad.

Fear me.

In the meantime, I've done my best to avoid reading too much (or seeing pictures) of the exotic animals killed in Ohio. Sometimes cruelty to animals hits me harder.

JFC, I'm 99% sure my coworker on maternity leave told our boss today that she's not coming back. We are so screwed. I feel really bad for my new boss. One person left right before she started (she had been looking for a while) and another one gave notice on Monday (his wife got a fancy job elsewhere). Fuuuuuuck.

Theo,

I couldn't believe I saw those pictures without warning also! I also did not want to see all those dead animals. Come ON. We need media warnings.

Yikes, Jesse. That's rough.

Okay, y'all, talk me down. We're throwing this show tomorrow, and I have hit the point of OMG we're not promoters why the hell did I think we could pull this off?

Tell me to just make the lists in evernote, load the station wagon, and that I have gaffer's tape so it will all be okay. I mean, I can build a plane from it if I need to.

Liese,

make the lists in evernote, load the station wagon, and you have gaffer's tape.

It will all be okay.

Really.