wednesday funny

it is the middle of the week; and i thought i better share some comic relief to deal with, well, the wednesday blues.

this is from this week's edition of the Ontario Farmer (its tailender column):

How to Properly Place NEW EMPLOYEES:
1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.
2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door.
3. Leave them
alone and come back after 6 hours.
4. Then analyze the situation:

a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting
Department.

b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.

c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in
Engineering.

d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in
Planning.

e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.

f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security.

g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information
Technology

h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.

i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for
more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.

j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Marketing.

k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.

l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved,
congratulate them and put them in Top Management.

m. Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a
way
that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Congress.

i am eating lunch now, and just wanted to say that ranch dressing is highly overrated.

baby, one more time

i just came across this quote that i had written down. i have no idea where i got it from, but i thought it was pretty interesting:

i believe that one ought to have as much market efficiency as one needs,
because everything that we value in human life is within the realm of
inefficiency - love, family attachment, community, culture, old habits,
comfortable old shoes

---edward luttwak

here and now

where, o where have you gone my sweet summer? with only 22 more days of work, and school in a month, i can't help but wonder what happened to the summer. i have not even spend a day at the beach yet!?! doc walker at holstein rodeo
holstein rodeo - bull riding
it was raining all afternoon ... but that did not stop anyone (from splashing us with mud that is ...)
corb lund and drummer at hamilton place

certainly corb did not disappoint with his rendition of the hockey song, and a 4th verse:

oh goodness me, fox tv where did you get your sight, can't you
keep track, the puck is black, thats why the ice is white. And that big red
glare you see up there, well we've seen that for years, for goodness sakes, all
it takes it a couple dozen beers"!!

chris daughtry - what about now

norah jones - the story

this last song from my blueberry nights is just fabulous, just as the film actually. i have never been a fan of jude law, but this film did not disappoint. together with my earlier post about stopless, i have to say i am glad my movie night fell through (that is the theatre was all sold out by the time we arrived), so that we had the chance to rent these films. i like!

once a nerd, always a nerd- i was pretty stoked today when i discovered the data analysis toolpack on excel. call it nerdy if you will, but it will save me a lot of time: it is just so cool! teehee!

anyways, see you at the baseball game!

exactly what i was wondering: winning or losing?

just over my lunch hour today i was doing some online reading, and came across this article, which basically answered some of my recent questions about the war on terror. it coincides with a conversation i had yesterday as we were watching stoploss, which addressed the issue, well as you can guess of America's stop-loss policy. it was basically a comment my mom made about how there were already so many movies out about the war in iraq, and the war on terror. well, it has been longer than ww1 or ww2. basically, i realized, that we are just plugging along, while there is still a war going on. sure, we remember our fallen soldiers as another CBC segment on the war is on, but really the distance is not only one in terms of kilometres and culture, but even more so in our minds. hardly ever do we hear anything concrete. actually no, let me rephrase: never do we hear anything concrete. and as much as technology supposedly makes the world smaller, imo, there has never been a time where the world has been so disconnected.

anyways, just thought i'd pass on the link.

workly wisdom

everyday at work there is a new quote posted on the company extranet. just thought i'd share:

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But choose them as your guides, and follow them until you reach your destiny."Carl Schurz