March 2012
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Gun
I would like to begin all emails this week with the phrase “Please explain to me why what you just sent/asked makes an iota of sense?”
The end.
February 2012
53 posts
“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via dissentients:nogreatillusion) … Oh, and Neil Gaiman has a Tumblr now … (via live-to-the-point-of-tears
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I love Neil Gaiman, I either introduced him to B or she did to me. Not sure which.
Either way he is great.
Monday Part 2
Either someone is eating chips loud enough that I can hear them into my office with headphones on, I am going crazy, or there is an earthquake going on.
Under no circumstances am I okay with any of these things. In the slightest.
Also, if one more person “needs to talk to me about a project for like two minutes” and it leads to a 25 minute conversation there could be a murder. Two...
Monday
Dear everyone,
I have a calendar for my work day that I maintain so you can see when I am potentially available to meet. Key word “potentially”. Believe it or not, I don’t just sit on my hands between meetings. I do work*. And if I another person requests a meeting when I have that time filled I am going start responding with profanity.
Regards,
Tom
* Also, I need time...
thedailycourtney:
“If you want to be great, Pretty good is, in fact, pretty bad.” —Charles Osgood
(via a lady in chicago)
Wiseness from the wise.
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Perhaps it has gone too far
I was having some oatmeal with peanut butter this morning (aka Brown Magic) when I eyed my bottle of Sriracha (which is a hard word to spell) and thought “Oh this could be interesting.”
It was interesting. Very interesting. Probably making it into the rotation.
I am pretty sure I am addicted to Sriracha.
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Tom Fact
Whenever I receive a building wide email about an “Item Found” I promptly email the person back to let them know it isn’t mine.
Today I informed the desk that a pair of loppy earrings and a shopping bag were not mine.
Facebook hiatus
This is the third year I have gone on Facebook hiatus for lent. My Facebook page is officially down and I can feel my productive going up 1000% approximately.
Official Lent Facebook Hiatus starts tomorrow.
“Sorry I didn’t come to your art opening I just hate you so much”
– Joshua Gordon Levitt, 50/50
“I’ve hated you for months and now I have proof you suck as a person”
– Seth Rogen, 50/50
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“He is the lamb
She is the slaughter”
– Brand New
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“When she walked in that club that night,
She had a look in her eye like a...”
– Shwayze
It is time for BFT. Maybe I’ll dance with the stars
Note to self
Nicki Minaj wants people to pay attention to her.
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Update
In attempt to make good decisions I elected not to drink at dinner last night with some friends, I went to bed early, slept great for like 9 hours.
The “good” decision I made last night allowed me to make a “good” decision today. Which was run 9 miles on a treadmill because it is 26 degrees out and I hate being cold. Even though after running for two miles makes my body...
Last night I let the party get the best of me
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“You need to crawl before you ball”
– Kanye West
Anonymous asked: So you know ride or die has been a phrase used in that very since like 2003 right?
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New Girl (parapharsing)
R: Would you like some Nick?
N: No, I am going to have to stay sober for when I have to fight you later.
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Brief note
The whole Gisele comment thing is pretty stupid to me. So a player’s wife made an off hand comment standing up for her man.
On the Jalen Rose podcast, which is awesome, Dave Jacoby, who is an American hero, asked one of the poignant questions in the funniest way. Paraphrasing:
“Was Gisele speaking out of school or was she just being ride or die?”
Jalen said “Ride or...
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Wednesday update
Well that came and went fast*
*That is not what she said
(Gun)
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Advice to Rex Ryan
Maybe you should guarantee not winning the Superbowl next year since the last two years you proved you aren’t a man of your word.
Either that or your guarantees are meaningless. Your call.
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Operation Work = Fucked
For me and most people a large part of the work day involves meetings and conference calls where about 26% of the material is relevant (weighted average). This factors in the prep involved (at least 15 minutes in advance) and debriefing/next-stepping (at least 15 minutes). So for (a weighted average of ) 15.6 minutes of remotely valuable content I spend on average of an hour and a half when...
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Apparently it is MA state law that I want to jump off a cliff after missing two days of work.
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Music Hedge
I’d like the song “We are Young” by FUN more if it wasn’t already: 1. In a car commercial
2. It will likely be on the radio 5,000,023 in the next month
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“Some straight like you, giant stick up his ass, age what, 60? He’s just gonna...”
– Jesse Pinkman - Breaking Bad Theme of the Delaware weekend. And a great show
Quotes of the weekend:
“but we’re good”
“you just don’t break bad”
Ps
If you try to board the plane out of zone I hope you die
The airport
After spending too much time on line to go through TSA I propose the following:
There are four security lines:
1. For idiots/people who have lived under a rock since 2001/ people who have never flown
2. For people with young kids/ the elderly
3. People who qualify for the super line*
4. People who can’t qualify for 3 but aren’t 1 or 2
* the super line would require people to...