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The office can be fairly quiet during the holidays and occasionally people forget to remove themselves from calendar invites for meetings between Christmas and New Years.
I had a meeting like this last week... not wanting the time to go unused I still experimented and brainstormed. :P
Here are the meeting notes:
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The Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) is apparently part of the United States "border" and is staffed with border agents... even for domestic flights!
After getting my boarding pass, I headed over to security only to find two border patrol agents standing in front of the standard security screening.
They ask to ...
Shopping for small holiday presents is always an approximation because there is always someone you'll remember at the last minute. However I finally spread them all out today... I may have over estimated. :P
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Just read a post on 23/6 that brought up some good points about the Secret Service and the Iraqi shoe throwing incident:
Questions That I Have for the Secret Service - Jon Friedman
Shouldn't you have jumped in front of that shoe?
Shouldn't you have jumped in front of that second shoe?
more...
Evolution in the Workplace
Through small progressive changes by outside forces the sketch on my whiteboard has slowly evolved into this:
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My brother Toby just sent me this picture from his phone:
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Someone carved JASSON into a tree in the woods near the family farm. I say 'someone' because I don't remember doing it. The tree is fairly large, so I may have done it as a kid but I really wasn't ...
Gotta love The Office and their YouTube references.
Here's Michael Scott talking about his initial discovery of YouTube:
update
Hulu took down the video click :(
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Just got back from watching Larry Charlies and Bill Maher's Religulous and I have to say, I was a little disappointed.
While there were a lot of funny parts, like so many other movies, it didn't live up to the hype.
They been selling it as a funny and hard-hitting movie about ...
Here in the states we are among an increasing rare group of nations, namely those that are antimetrification. Yup, it's only Burma, Liberia, and us... we are the only three countries in the world who have not switched over to the metric system.
our antimetrification friends
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Feels good to snub our collective ...
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Earlier today I was a little freaked out by the customer service at one of the local oil change stations.
All of the employees had memorized long-winded scripts for greeting and dealing with the customers and they were utterly baffled by the simplest interaction (i.e. "Hi" and "No, just an oil ...