<vorsprung> because it’s the “big match today” and I felt ill this morning
<vorsprung> i felt I had to come in to work or everyone would believe I was having a sick day under false pretences
<ignatz> and that’s how athletics leads to major epidemics.
<Skrewtape> Ban atheltics!
<Skrewtape> I wonder if I can’t type because I don’t care, or if I don’t care because I can’t type
<ignatz> patient zero in the Great cholera epidemic of 2002
<Skrewtape> Ir order to spread cholera at his workplace, wouldn’t he have to take a shit in the water cooler?
<ignatz> just in the crisper in the office fridge i think
<Skrewtape> But still, at that point it gets difficult to blame the world cup
<cogent> Wait a second. Are you telling me the water cooler is a bad place to shit?
<Skrewtape> It is if you have cholera
<vorsprung> also when you die of cholera don’t leave your corpse in the water cooler
<Skrewtape> Right
<Skrewtape> Or even part of it
<ignatz> it’s all in the Employee Handbook

courtesy of the south park character thingy we have:

my south park self

I’m excited. I get to go on a TRIP. Next week I’m in Monterey all week for USENIX, and the week after that I’m in San Francisco for an actual vacation. I am blessed.

Who wants to party with me in the bay area? RAISE DA ROOF etc, etc.

1) Billboard in Mexican neighborhood: “TEQUILA Y CLAMATO. PREPARA UNO”

2) Mint Skittles

that is all

And this is from the King Arthur Flour company, for Chrissakes:

“WHAT’S SWEET, WARM, TENDER… and sticky? And you thought the answer was Dad!”

Orchids for stimps and others

Commuting has its fun times

Babel away!

My lego persona revealed:

Many thanks to this guy for typing this thing up and putting it on the web. I read it years ago in R.H. Blyth’s Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics and it’s been part of my core beliefs ever since

The Sinking Ship