Once upon a time, a few coworkers and I were in a terribly boring and unorganized meeting. By the end of the day, we were bored out of our minds. We'd been communicating by IM...
Joseph: why can't this meeting just end?
me: you have to explicitly call the garbage collector
Joseph: thisMeeting.Dispose();
Tristan: hahahah
me: can you help me with this SQL?
Tristan: what is it?
me: Select * from articles where category_code = 'N'
Tristan: whats the problem?
me: returns Count Chocula
Caf: "the first thing i thought when i heard we got ourselves nick swisher was 'oh man, we got ourselves a baseball player'" [quoting the White Sox commentator]
Me: which was good, because previously the White Sox were fielding a team of clowns
me: just got my performance review document
me: turns out I'm not fired
me: who knew?!
me: "Ed is very forward looking in terms of technology, yet still grounded in reality in terms of what is practical. The mix of these two qualities makes his opinions and insights very relevant to a lot of the work we do. "
John: I got that in my fortune cookie yesterday
The following conversation took place over text messages:
Ed: Brandon Inge is Detroit's center fielder. Funny all by itself.
Caf: Juan Pierre is no longer a starter. Excellent all by itself.
Ed: It's a good day.
Before meeting a friend for lunch one day, his significant other sent this IM (names have been changed to protect the hilarious):
FYI for later, Schwehmdog... Dan was acting like an ass goblin last night, so I got us dinner at Chipotle and had them spike his burrito with atomic salsa. he was in extreme gastronomic discomfort this morning. So, I apologize if he's ornery at lunch.
This is just a much funnier title for a entry I did over on IPROD. If you were hoping for a funny, tough luck. Get used to disappointment.
This weekend I was playing Cranium Pop 5, which is a version of cranium where you get to choose which type of activity you want to use to get your team to guess the word (the other team gets to choose the number of points each activity is worth). So clearly some categories don't work well with some events: it can be hard to hum "acid-washed jeans".
We were doing guys vs. girls, and as usual the guys were losing. I was on a roll though when it was my turn to act/draw/hum/scuplt, so when it came around to me, I said that no matter what I was doing the 5 point event (the most difficult, as chosen by the other team). What did I commit myself to? I had to sculpt the song "Love Shack". And you know what? I did it. Our team still lost but I was a fucking winner.
