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’nuff said

I promise not to be annoying.  Starting now.  (we’ll see how long that lasts)

Time: 7am Dec 10, 2008

K

[update: streak ended 2:14pm Dec 10, 2008 with "The Life of Juan"]

.. then we are lost (in translation) together .. .

Part of me does not like to tell you this because you’ll bug me to no end about it.  But you will appreciate the  story and so here I go…

Last week, the parking lot for the company was extra busy. And I was talking to J***** (Sally), as to why the parkign lot was so full. She said that there was a training seminar in the building. Then I realized that the CEO P*** was shooting his annual Christmas message to the franchises and he had an entire camera crew in his office.

I said to Sally, “Oh, P***’s shooting a commercial and he’s … uhm … got a bunch of camera people in his office” … realizing what I said, I poked fun at myself and said something to the effect of, “yeah, listen to me: camera people, I’m really tech savvy ain’t I?”

Between that and “recorder thingy”, I think we make a perfect pair.

K

I created a page that lists all the stuff I need to do before you come home.

K

I went to someone’s desk (he and his coworker–A***–was talking about sweetener and calories) and I started singing “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies.  He then plays the song (which he had an mp3 of).  I sway my hips side to side as a mock dance to the music and A*** gets up and does the same.  I told her (essentially)  “I’m too old to be as coordinated as you”.  To which she asks, “how old are you? 29? 30?”.  I told her that I can be either 29 or 30 but I haven’t done the math to verify. 

She then asks “what math is there to do?”  I told her that I have to adjust for timezones and crap like that.  She then asks if it was my birthday and to which I responded again that I haven’t done the math.  She exclaims “Why are you so difficult?” and goes out for a smoke.  I come back to my desk and think, “What are the odds that two years in a row someone asks about my birthday the DAY BEFORE my birthday when the rest of the year brings no such queries”.

The gods, indeed, are crazy.

K

When she’s lonely and the longing gets too much
She sends a cable comin‘ in from above
We don’t need no phone at all
We’ve got a thing that’s called radar love
We’ve got a wave in the air, radar love

… I was walking the hallways in this morning as I got in and someone was having network issues (I gather). So R****** says to this person, “When was the last time you cleaned your cables?”. A very muted response, one doesn’t clean network cables as far as I know and secondly, NO ONE had even the faintest of a dirty mind to chuck at such a statement. So leave it to me to do the dirty work. I ask blankly, “Is that a euphemism?”. No prompting for laughter after that.

K

Well, I had fun last night and this weekend. Two birthday parties in one year beats the sum of the last few years combined. Though yesterday wasn’t all about me, it was nice of B***** and A*** to make cupcakes and food and get candles and dim the lights during the time Happy Birthday was sung.

Poker was OK. V***** won. He had my number all night. So did A***. Other than that I did fairly well … but sometimes my lack patience gets to me. I would like to yell “Play already” instead of chitchatting about crap … anyway what my impatience has to do with the subject of the blog post you wonder …

A*** had not put in a sufficient amount of chips to play (one particular hand), and I tried to inform her of that. Finally she exclaims, “I already put in”. And I respond, “I believe the term is ‘put out’ …”. She asks blankly, “Are you calling me a whore?”. Anyway, I worried that I might have offended her when I was just playing around. But she was fine at the end of the night. And of course, I should be nicer to people who make me cupcakes and invite me over.

K

I know you told me not to get anything.  But this was right up your ally.

from bestbuy.ca

K.

why computers shouldn’t learn from human behaviour.

youtube.com

Did you see “Also try: if your going to san francisco“?

The computer continued, “be sure to ware some flowers in your hare”

K

We see this happen too often.   Shame, really.

K