Three insightful stories:1. At my job, we are provided with a complimentary continental breakfast each Friday. Yesterday, I received the following email:
"In honor of National Hunger Awareness Month the Chicago office has decided to challenge everyone to give up Friday breakfasts and donate the funds to The Greater Chicago Food Depository. The firm will be donating the money saved from canceling the Friday breakfast on June 23rd and June 30th, which is over $1,700.
"We will be working with our food vendors to also donate food in honor of National Hunger Awareness Month. The food will be donated to The Greater Chicago Food Depository.
"Thank you for your anticipated generosity."
2. At my job, there are lots of constantly changing procedures, guidelines and rule that me and each of my "counterparts" are expected to stay abreast of. At our staff meeting on Tuesday, my boss gave a "pop quiz," containing five questions about firm procedures. We were given fifteen minutes to scribble our answers on the sheets before passing them back in. Then we went through the quiz, question by question, and my boss called on people to answer, obviously singling out those she thought might be confused about certain procedures.
3. At my job, I regularly arrive four to 12 minutes late. Some days I arrive fifteen minutes early, and very occasionally I arrive up to 20 minutes late. Firm procedure dictates that any tardiness less than 20 minutes can be made up during one's lunchbreak or other "make-up time." Anything greater than 20 minutes must be recorded in one's timesheet.
Today I was 20 minutes late. My boss reported me to her supervisor, who asked me down to her office, where she accused me of "falsifying my timesheet" because I recorded that I had come in at nine. She then told me she was not going to give me a written warning, "because she didn't want to," but rather than I am now to send her an e-mail as soon as I arrive each morning so that she can "keep track of me."
Don't tell nobody, but I'm leaving in a month. Please leave comments to this post. Thank you for your anticipated generosity.
Labels: food
I'm placing my vote for most mind expanding location in spacetime: the set of the
Star Trek. Before you dissmiss this as nerdly fancy, a vote recklessly cast into the aether, I'll ask you to turn your attention to Exibits
A and
B. (prepare yourself, 5+ minutes may be necessary to review the evidence).
Labels: nerdcore
Ain't
no man I know can do that.
(Better to download than open: It's really big.)
THE NIGHTMARES WERE TRUE"
clowns sabotage nuclear missile"
if ever there was a time to flee the country, now is the time.
Featured Blog-o-tha-Week Volume 1: "i am who i am so if you hate me then piss off"meet joe : latter-day high school visigoth ginsberg
father's day poem = must read.
Labels: blogs of glory
the hits keep comin'!Carey Cramer, who made the anti-Al Gore "Daisy" ad (a throwback to
this badboy) in '00, is accused of molesting girls,
including one in the ad.
business timedear jackblog reader,
summer is upon us and like the broth-man of lore whose teeming brothsea begs for feculent enspicening, we have business to attend to:
1. long have we languished beneath the cold veneer of the jackblog's tired banner. send me ideas, photos, and/or self-wrought banner titles by the bile-stained tureen and i shall create a viscous, stringy queue of banner title glory from which the jackblog can sip decadently for eons to come [thecoldcowboy at gmail dot com]. (banner pixel dimensions should be in the area of 773 x 265 if you're interested in sending a finished product - otherwise i can do the rest).
2. also taking other ideas for jackblog hors d'oeuvres - our features are ancient and we haven't seen any atrocities in ages. what gives? it's time for new features. feature me.
3. i shall be quitting my job (at long last) and taking a fat road trip for the month of august (colorado, utah, arizona, new mexico) culminating in my exodus from hated washington /move to michigan. likewise, jackblogging pioneers little gordie and tron will be leaving us in the coming months for argentina and will likely be unable to fulfill any blogmastering duties. if the jackblog should be overrun by vengeful church youthgroup hackerz during that time, consider thyselves warned.
ok friends, i've gotten drunk and gushed about this band enough, so i might as well provide a link. ok, two:
deyarmond edison websitedeyarmond edison myspace
Life like sand through an hilarious sieve"They have no regard for human life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us."
-Navy Rear-Admiral Harry Harris, base commander
From
Scotsman.com
Damn, girl, your eggs
smell nice.
hello jackity lick bloggers.
come july 9 I will be working my beefy mountain bike on this american cancer society 60 mile
bike tour. I know 60 miles is not that impressive among some of the cross country riders that frequent this page, but I just recently have worked my way up there.
So if anyone wants to join me or just donate, let me know. My biker number on the site is 134787881.
see dave kajganich talking about his upcoming film "the visiting"
here.
see nicole kidman on the same panel
here.
"it's not so much the screenwriter as what i bring to the film" ...damn, girl!
Labels: film
MySpace? NSASpace? BraveNewWorldSpace?Saw
this on Slashdot this morning. I knew there was a reason I've been avoiding MySpace and all the rest. From the story:
"New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals."
Watch out, Toes. Big Brother's got his eye on you.
Labels: science
Democrats of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your surplus pooh!
from
breitbart.com:
"Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave's Greeley office."
So this is the united proactive democratic party we've all been looking for? Finally! It's about time some up-and-comers showed true vision, grit, and moral fiber. The Left will rise again!
Labels: congress
might someone explain this
woman to me, how does she have such a loud voice over the last few years?
In the video interview when asked about her crazy opinion being right or wrong, she says her book sales will justify it. excellent rational.
beautiful. for all you silence of the lamb fans. or musical fanatics. my fav. might be "put the fucking lotion in the basket" (click on track listings to listen)
Labels: film
Day of Fell Deeds!Well, the Devil's day is finally upon us. Please keep the Jackblog updated regarding any and all antichrist births, sulfur storms, baboon fights, or other foul portents witnessed across the land.
Anybody got anything evil planned? Me, I'm umping a softball game...now THAT'S power...
hmmm...could summer league softball be the "Eternal Sea" from which he'll rise?
End Boss MonthCourtesy of Joe V.:
Apparently June is End Boss Month. I can find very little in the way of preferred observances for End Boss Month, origins of End Boss Month, or why it is that we decided to dedicate a month to those most evil of all villains who plagued us as children, and haunt many of our nightmares still. Mostly it seems that gamer forums and fan sites take the opportunity to recount tales of their favorite end bosses. So I thought I'd pose the question to the Jackbloggerz: Any favorite End Bosses you want to give a shout-out to?
In honor of one of the finest and most noble gamers ever, my man Seth, I will submit "Master D", The unsettlingly Hitleresque End Boss of "Bionic Commando":
I must admit, I feel like a bit of a cheat having never personally faced "Master D". But once, in the aftermath of a binge festival of undoubtedly horrifying snack combinations (Funyons and Chocolate Milk comes to mind) I watched through a junk-food haze as Seth guided the heroic Bionic Commando (who can't even
jump, for god's sake!) through many perils, and finally defeated the fiendish Master D. It was one of the finest gaming moments I've witnessed.
Honorable mention must include: Kefka - Final Fantasy III[US]/VI[Japan] (though ALL Final Fantasy End Bosses should probably be mentioned); Dr. Wily - Var. Megamen; and--my own personal White Whale, whom I have faced many times, but never bested: Jaquio - Ninja Gaiden.
Any favorites?
Labels: nerdcore
