This week I learned that if you want something, you should just take it. For example, if you’ve been sitting in an Office Chair for Kids™ for the duration of your employment, you should just wait until someone leaves the company, and take their chair. Or if you’re moved to a new office and you don’t have a trash can, you should just take one you find somewhere.
You’re not stealing from someone else, and you’re not stealing from the company. You are just bypassing the requisition process where you ask someone for something and it takes forever to happen.
In conclusion, if you see a person who looks rich you should mug them.
Girlfriend of friend just launched new website. I like it. Also, she’s pretty funny. Also, she told us how she took pictures for John Rueben once, and that was really funny.
I just used the phrase “pared down” in written language for the first time in my life. I was typing an e-mail, and I wanted to say pared down, but didn’t know how to spell it, so I had to look it up. It was then that I realized I’ve never written it before. What a historic moment in my life.
This guy named Bradley Rose is sending me spam about DJs and club stuff in NYC. I know, welcome to the internet, right? A normal person would probably just mark his messages as spam and leave it at that, but I’m kind of annoyed, because I actually don’t get any junk mail at this address except for things from companies I’ve done business with. So the fact that I’m getting something unsolicited from this guy leads me to believe he took my address off of Facebook, or Myspace, or Craigslist or something. I can’t even think of where it would be available to the public though, I have everything set as friends only. So I’m writing this little note because maybe someone will find it through Google who knows something about it. Have you ever heard of Bradley Rose? He works with (for? is?) exactevents dot com, and I guess it’s based in Chicago, although I’ve been getting ads for things in NYC.
Lately I’ve been playing geography puzzle games online. I have no knowledge of geography, so I thought it was a good idea. It’s humbling to play a game intended for children and find yourself saying, “Oh, so that’s where Somalia is!” The thing about this site though, is that I think it’s tailored to children who are home schooled. Why? Well there was the ad that said “Finally, a Christian alternative to health care!”
It’s called Christian Share Medi-Share. I can’t get the image to upload right now, but that tag is the most interesting part. I agree that the health care system has all sorts of problems, and I can’t speak for the efficiency of the “Christian alternative to health care.” But I like how much the ad says about the company placing it and the intended audience. Apparently there is a group of long-suffering people just waiting for a Christian alternative to health care. And a group of people who thought, “Health care is so messed up! Why can’t Christians just figure out another (religiously based) way?”
I was just washing my hands in the men’s room. I watched the man next to me finish, go to the automatic paper towel dispenser, and hold his hands out. He held two hands out, palms up, not moving, like a child receiving a gift. He stood there for a while. I assume that he thought it was broken and eventually left. I finished washing my hands and walked over to the dispenser. I waved my hand in front of the part that said “motion activated” and dried my hands.
I just wanted to post a link to Kiva.org here. It’s a website where you can loan $25 or more to an entrepreneur in the developing world. It sounds like it’s really worthwhile. Take a look. You can also read more at wikipedia about microcredit.
My associate Zach and I discussed the phenomenon of e-mail forwards the other day. Where do they come from? Who is the person that first says, “I think I’ll forward this insane thing I’ve created to all my acquaintances?” You rarely see an author taking credit for a popular forward either. It seems like a mostly mom and pop operation, so we thought we could become famous by writing a bunch of forwards and signing them. We would be the Wal-mart of forwards.
Anyways, where I’m going with this, is that the following e-mail forward could be made by an imitator. The reason I say that is because parts of it seem recycled and because the e-mail makes God look kind of like a jerk. Of course neither of those is that rare with these letters, so who’s to say?
P.S. This e-mail horribly abuses the ellipsis and the carriage return.
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I used to use Winamp to listen to music on my computer, but I don’t anymore. The one thing I miss about that program is the feature “stop play after this song.” You could press stop but then the song would finish instead of getting cut off in the middle.
The reason I mention it is because there’s something wrong with me and I don’t like to stop listening to music. For example, I’ll stay in front of my computer or in a room so I can listen to a song that I like, and I find something to do until it’s over. But then the next song starts because I’m distracted, and I keep on doing something until that one is over. And it keeps on happening. I’ve been listening to the new Arcade Fire CD and I’ve been stuck in front of my computer a lot.
Sometimes clients need help transferring files they’re going to use in their presentation. I walked into the room today, and the client goes, “Thank goodness you’re here! The flash drive isn’t showing up!” So I went over to help. I plugged the drive into the computer to see if I could get it to work, and she said, “Oh! That’s where it is! I’m used to it being back here on mine.” I asked her where she had been trying to plug it in. For some reason you can’t plug a USB flash drive into the ethernet jack on your laptop. Wouldn’t the competely different shapes be a tip off?
P.S. I was just walking down the hall and a client pointed at a sign and said, “Excuse me, can you direct me to food & spirits?”
- You are pointing at a sign with arrows to the locations listed.
- You asked for “food & spirits” but actually would just like a vending machine, as you had to explain.
- It’s funny to say, “Direct me to food & spirits.”