Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
"I'm Downright Amazed At What I Can Destroy With Just A Hammer" by Atom & His Package. Has a faint kinship with the Ben Folds/Shatner version of "Common People."
The other day I referred to poop as "the deliverable." More "Performance evaluation euphemisms invading everyday speech (ironically)" from Raymond Chen's blog.
I just explained to a new colleague, with reference to "Oregon Trail", that if his workload goes past steady into strenuous or grueling, he should let me know so I can bear some of it. …
"I think that's how you get stronger, is working through the pain." "Not if you die!" "You might fall over, yeah. But that's just ... heightening the contradictions. It's a Leninist model of personal fitness."
"Lovecraft once wrote a short story called 'At the Mountains of Madness.'" "I cross those every day!" "Yeah, we've built a highway through those mountains."
Just got off the column for this Sunday. Something I had to leave out: Mike Daisey wrote about his time at Amazon in his book 21 Dog Years (based on his monologue) and talked about …
Sometimes the subconscious just phones it in. Doing stand-up comedy about Battlestar Galactica? Sorry, not nearly inventive enough. The only creative element was a Cylon leader, played by Don Cheadle, whom I call "Kofi Cylan."
Leonard reassured me that the baby Nixon did not exist and look who's talking now!
A sensical-in-context quote from a friend: "I feel like Milton in Office Space, but people are piling staplers on my desk." More Miltonage.