erm…busy.
I was sitting and answering (or rather forwarding) one of the hundreds of emails I get during the day to keep the project moving forward the other day and my boss comes over and says “Hey.”
“I sent you the project plan and you need to manage this ne person this way…”
He went on like this for a few minutes… finishing up with “So I’ll be at the other office most of the time for a long time on my new project. Do you have any questions?”
“I’m sure I will, but I will email you with them during your down time. Cool?”
“Yeah, that’s fine. See ya.”
and he trotted off and I think I inherited a REALLY LARGE beast of a project that I know about 20% of the details about.
I think I’m going to be very busy and very clueless for a while.
I was this way when I took over my last project.
- I felt stupid for a while.
- Then I just felt useless.
- For a while I was teetering on the edge while I internalized it.
- Then I kicked some serious heiney to get things done.
- Then I got it done and dropped into a coma.
I’m on step 1 now.
I’ll try to post, but no promises about its content.
Maybe Greg will forgive me for being a crank in emails.
wow. really big pitchers.
If you found my site looking for this “pitchers of naked people“… you’d think that they wanted to find more than one naked person and I bet that you couldn’t fit more than even an 1/8th of a nekkid person in a pitcher…
pitchers aren’t very big.
You know, you’ll go blind doing that…
no, really, the jokes are waaaay too easy.
Reports Link Impotence Drugs to Blindness: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether there’s a connection between three popular impotence drugs and some rare cases of blindness.
Medical experts say this is very difficult to sort out, because many of the men who rely on these types of medications already have underlying health problems.
They’ve been used by tens of millions, the impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. “
Starving Artist
| Starving Artist You are 42% Rational, 28% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant. |
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You are the Starving Artist! You are more intuitive than logical, and are primarily guided by your heart and emotions. You are also very introverted and gentle. Of course, this does not mean that you do not have an ego. In fact, you are surprisingly arrogant for someone so emotional and gentle. This is why you are best described as a starving artist. You are very introspective and quite sure of yourself, as any accomplished artist is, yet your views are impractical, guided by feelings, and overly gentle. You probably find math, logic, and similar intellectual pursuits offensive to your artistic sensibilities, and you prefer the open-endedness of artistry because then you know you can never truly have a wrong answer. So really you have no reason to be arrogant, you big doofus, because the skills you value (emotion, spirit, art, etc.) in yourself are valuable only on a subjective level, meaning your arrogance is purely masturbatory. In short, your personality is defective because you are arrogant, introverted, introspective, gentle, and thoroughly irrational…posessing most of the traits needed to be a starving–and useless–artist. So get out there, write a few short stories that are allegories for the spirit, and starve! To put it less negatively: 1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational. 2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted. 3. You are more GENTLE than brutal. 4. You are more ARROGANT than humble. Compatibility: Your exact opposite is the Capitalist Pig. Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Haughty Intellectual, the Televangelist, and the Emo Kid.
If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you The other personality types: The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on Ok Cupid |
kittenwar.com
5/20/05
kittenwar.com
Notable kittens on this site:
Madeline
Sonora
and Flying Odiemonster
I just about had kitten induced aneurysms looking at this site.
And on personal notes…
Dreama, this is for you.
Kramer, I love you more than kittens.
update 5/27/05: I added Cleo (a formerly featured “gratuitously cute kitten” picture on fredlet.com during the dark ages… her stats are pretty good =;)
This is how Cleopatra has performed in 607 battles:
Won: 382 (63%)
Lost: 161 (27%)
Drawn: 64 (11%)
Cats and Dogs
Cats and Dogs: “There is no big surprise about what cat names are popular. Top favorites include Kitty, Smokey, and Tiger. Socks, Fluffy and Midnight are common also. One owner named his cat ‘Eleven Fifty Nine’ because it was not quite as black as midnight. Often cats do not have names at all because they respond just as well to ‘Cat’ as demonstrated by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. In Pajama Game the cat was named, what else, P.J. And in Bell, Book and Candle the witch, Gillian Holroyd played by Kim Novak), calls her cat Pyewacket (played by Simba), a name from old English legends about the nether world.
What about pet fish, you ask? From my research I have found that the most popular names for goldfish are Jaws, Goldie and Fred. No kidding.”
points to ponder
Law professor John Yoo doesn’t come across like a war criminal. But while working for the Department of Justice after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Yoo helped write a series of legal memos redefining torture and advising President Bush that the Geneva Convention does not apply to members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) demanded from the Senate floor last month that Yoo and other civilian officials be held accountable for their part in what he called the “torture scandal” over treatment of Iraqi detainees by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Legal scholar Scott Horton, president of the New York-based International League for Human Rights, called last month for Yoo and others to be investigated as war criminals for their part in drafting the memos.
This is America, right? The place where you have the right to speak your mind, give your opinion, even write it down in a memo? I can understand a senator not knowing what’s in the Constitution. A lot of politicians don’t seem to be familiar with the document. But a legal scholar should know better, don’t you think? And as far as the argument that the Geneva Convention applies to terrorists, that’s nonsense. Read the agreement. No terrorist organization has signed it, and everything they do violates it. We don’t have any treaties with terrorists. Let’s not redefine “torture” to include “making someone uncomfortable.”
(Emphasis my own.)
excellent advice..
Yahoo! Astrology: “The energy changes to more challenging stuff midweek, with your heart asking plaintively, ‘Why?’ Don’t fight it; when the going gets tough, the tough sometimes nap.”
SFGate: Day In Pictures :: Winnie the Pool
SFGate: Day In Pictures: “Winnie the Pool: At 200 pounds, this bruin is no skinny dipper even if she’s swimming bear. The black bear did a few laps around the pool in the Granada Hills section of Los Angeles, before California Fish and Game tranquilized her and hauled her off to a more bear-appropriate locale. “
I like the rubber duckie in the pool…. [image]
Penn State Hershey Medical Center FRED – Faculty Research Expertise Database
Whilst mooning over “Out of Africa” (and wondering about certain medical ailments contained therein) I found this…
Penn State Hershey Medical Center FRED – Faculty Research Expertise Database
Sun publishes another Saddam photo – Yahoo! News
Sun publishes another Saddam photo – Yahoo! News: “U.S. officials promised an aggressive investigation into who was responsible for the photographs, which they believe were taken more than a year ago. They said the images violated Pentagon rules and may have breached the Geneva Conventions.”
Yes, because the US is such a fine upstanding examlpe of a country whose government adheres rigidly to the Geneva Convention.
Jeebus, what a bunch of lying, hypocritical assholes.
F is for Fred
You will be sucked dry by a leech. I’d stay away
from swimming holes, and stick to good old
cement. Even if it does hurt like hell when
your toe scrapes the bottom.
What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
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Dachsund Puppy at the Tiger Party 3
Dachsund Puppy at the Tiger Party 3
Originally uploaded by tokerud.
I’m a sucker for baby animals…
oh man, I am BORING
Your Deadly Sins |
| Sloth: 80% |
| Gluttony: 20% |
| Envy: 0% |
| Greed: 0% |
| Lust: 0% |
| Pride: 0% |
| Wrath: 0% |
| Chance You’ll Go to Hell: 14% |
| You will die while sleeping – and no one will notice. |
insidious plots by us. We so sneaky…
Lake disappears, baffling villagers – Yahoo! News: “MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.
NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.
‘It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground,’ said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.
Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.
‘I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us,’ said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house. “
Yeah, that’s what we all do all day is plot to take away the Russians’ lakes. (WTF?)
