I laugh out loud every time I watch this. "Instead of using one of today's more popular compact devices to get directions to where you're going, why not use a device the size of a small car to do the same job?" Ha! I love this parody.
I have a friend in Learning and Development who apparently has way too much time on his hands today, but he came up with this hilarious fake ad, and I have to give him props for it. I actually laughed out loud in the cafeteria while sitting alone, and people looked at me funny.
I remember the first time I came across the culvert, like it happened just yesterday: I was participating in a fire drill over in Building 115, and my team met out on 148th facing our building. It was a warm summer day, and the grass was still damp from an evening shower. Not content to stand idle and wait for further instruction from the Safety Overlords, I noticed a large grassy area on the southern end of the building with a couple benches, and started to make my way over. That's when I noticed the culvert. Oh, sure, some people call it a drainage ditch, but I like to think of it as a man-made water concourse, gently guiding excess precipitation into the arteries of our beloved municipal water treatment facilities, and making this world a better place in the process.
I'm not afraid to say it -- I think I might love that culvert. There. It's out in the open. And I am not ashamed.
I need your help.
My Squidoo lens on how to build a cheese-powered vehicle (http://www.squidoo.com/cheesefuel) has been nominated for the prestigious Lens of the Year award, and I need some additional votes to help me secure this coveted title.
Please go to http://www.squidoo.com/thelensoftheyear, scan the list for my URL (ranked right now at around #40) and vote for me.
Only through this kind of useless non-recognition and frivolous accolades will this faux-technology reach the masses and truly change the world!
Thanks for you help.
--cbuck
There is not enough Purell hand sanitizer in my world. I am not particular about the brand, but I am glad that Purell has gone ahead and tried to be a category-killer here.
When I exit the restroom, I am one of those who uses a paper towel to grab the handle. Yes, I know all about the studies that suggest I get more germs from the earpiece on my phone, that germs are everywhere, that a toilet seat has fewer germs than the inside of a typical human's mouth.
I don't care. I prefer to be irrational and over-cautious with this issue.
Why am I so worried about the handle on the door as I exit the restroom? Because I see how many people 'take care of business' and then exit without washing their hands. I don't need to get graphic to convey the simple fact that the excreta potentially lingering on their hands are transferred to the door handle.
In the interest of public safety, especially in the workfplace, BlueBadgeMojo.com introduces the AutoSantizer Door Handle (Patent Pending).
Here's what it looks like:
If there is an engineer who would like to undertake this project with BlueBadgeMojo.com, please post a comment, and we can take world health to a new level.
We need to protect those of us with the basic common sense to wash our hands after "TCOB" (as Elvis used to say).
Is this an over-zealous improvement? I think not.
John
Wednesday night, I stayed at work past 5:28pm. In 3 1/2 years at Microsoft, I do not recall staying here to work past 5:28pm. I was pitching in with the testers to do some testing around our Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition which we are getting closer and closer to finishing.
Now, as a bunch of developers, testers, and others plan to spend a long evening working on some high-intensity project- dinner is served! What is the typical dinner of choice? Pizza. Yep. That's what was ordered.
But, pizza for a bunch of nerds has become such a cliche. It's very last decade. I've noticed this trend for quite a while. Evidence was clear the next morning as unemptied pizza boxes were stacked up in the kitchen on the 6th floor of our building. They were untouched (as far as anyone knows).
Digression: What kind of person eats food that has been sitting out in a public space all night like that? I had this kid in my elementary school that would lick his finger and then touch the food on the tray of other kids and say, "Do you want that?". Sheepish little kids would then yield their "california burger with fixins" over to this kid. Normally I had cold lunches, so he didn't care to eat my lunch. Once my father bought a box of chicken hearts (we were not wealthy, and I think the chicken hearts were going for very cheap!) and my mother patiently sliced them like little black olives and put them on bread with mayonnaise. My sisters and I had chicken heart sandwiches for a week as I recall. Anyway, this kid tried to "claim" my hot lunch one day, and as he reached over I put my fork in the back of his hand. Those were different days, I guess, because in today's culture, I'd be probably still doing hard time in the big house for protecting my cold school pizza like that.
So, returning to the pizza that began this rant:
It's time for the tech industry to adopt a new default food for the all-nighter. It must be a grassroots effort, as the President of the Tech Industry is...well, there really isn't one. I am going to start promoting my preferred food: the Large Cone at DQ- I love soft-serve icecream from DQ, and I have it nearly every day. In another reversal of tech cliches: I'm under 130 lbs. I should weigh a lot more, but I skip meals in order to just have DQ.
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My second item is about little rodents getting loose on a plane.
As you know, we have the bluebadgemojo GerbilCam (TM). I would love to turn that baby loose on a plane and see what happens! We turn it loose each week during our MSCT2K6 stops, and it causes all sorts of chaos. There's no telling what kind of fun it could cause in a shopping mall or at a baseball card convention.
Yes, we're in a transition period as we slowly (painfully) make the switch from the personal Typepad account address over to BlueBadgeMojo.com (John, how are those custom DNS settings coming along?), and then out of nowhere comes this great endorsement.
I love jumping up and down, as well.
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