“…but I didn’t shoot the deputy.”
arts and leisure, everyday glory, geekery, movies and TV, music, news and info, office antics, science and technology, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot...?! June 5th, 2009Friday – 05 June 2009
Another quiet skeleton crew Friday in the office. After starting the day with 2112, I spent about 30 minutes talking with our CTO about some of his experiences with international travel. That was followed up by a conversation with our CFO about our meeting yesterday and the direction that we (IT dept) need to go to make sure that things we discussed yesterday continue to move along.
Last night, SaraRules and I watched Ball of Fire, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck – a screwball comedy. In it, Cooper plays Bertram Potts, a professor who is part of an 8-man team working on a new encyclopedia. Professor Potts is working on a section on “slang,” but realizes that despite his masterful knowledge of the English language, he knows next to nothing about modern slang; he sets out to find people who know and use it. One of those people is Katherine “Sugarpuss” O’Shea, a nightclub performer… and gangster’s moll. And from there, hijinks ensue. It was a fun movie and, though despite showing its age in a few places , a good way to spend an evening.
Stray Toasters
- Bruce Campbell was interviewed on Talk of the Nation yesterday.
- Apple Above, the Pack Below
- From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” file: Bacon gumballs
- Festival for New York, That Muslim City
- The Shrinking Majority – Rise & Fall: Mormon Majority Is Slipping Away, by way of
- Database of all the toxins in your cosmetics and personal care products
- The Green Fairy
- The Civic Value of a Bold Statement
- By way of
: - D&D-style map of C++
- Ending a 60-Year Gig at the NY Philharmonic
Namaste.
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