Wednesday (coda)

Stray Toasters

  • I pretty much positioned myself as the de-facto Office Manager of our Utah County office; we don’t have an Admin in that office and since I handle the equipment requests (I’m the IT guy… go figure), I thought: “I might as well do the general supplies, too.” Today, our Controller brought in some replacement pull-chains for the blinds in some of the offices and asked me to find a home for them. As I was taking them back to my desk, I had an epiphany…

    I walked over to one of the programmers areas and stood there for a second, chains hanging from my clenched fist. I looked at one of the programmers, held up the chains, and said: “Your name is Toby!”

    He stared at me, blankly… absolutely no recognition of what I was doing on his face.

    So, I repeated myself.

    Another programmer, across the aisle, spoke up: “Kunta Kente!”

    I looked at him and laughed and said,”See… [He] knew the reference!”

    A third guy looked up and said,”No. He was just the only one not afraid to say anything.”

    It made me smile.

  • Jason sent me a copy of Coupling (Season 1, episode 4: “Inferno”). Nine Hells… it was funny. Tyranist had loaned me the first season on DVD, but I haven’t had the opportunity to watch it. Or I haven’t made the time to watch it. One or the other. Or both. Or something like that. I will have to make the time to watch it… from the beginning.
  • A friend sent me a link to If My Nose Was Running Money, kind of a… country version of If I Had $1000000. Kind of.
  • Applegeeks Blog: Mr. Grenade
  • The night I baked brownies, I sent a quick email to my mother. It simply said: “How domestic am I? I just baked brownies.” She sent this back, in reply:

    JUST HOW DOMESTIC? Obviously, far-r-r-r-r-r-r-r more than your Mother and your Baby
    Sister…if you BAKED brownies! CONGRATS! Were they good? Edible? 🙂
    MOM

    “Edible?”
    She cracks me up.
    (And, yes, they were – and continue to be – edible.)

  • Virtual Recruiting for Real-World Jobs
  • Ted (sixth one on the page) obviously thinks:
    1. That it is 2750 (or after).
    2. That he has jump jets.
    3. That he can pull off “Death From Above.”

    Click here to see why.
    Click here and here and here for explanation of the above points (if you don’t already get it, that is).

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Okay, enough of this. Time to fight crime… or something to that effect.

Namaste.