Thursday, January 22, 2009

That's Quite a "Coffee Break"

In an undisclosed city and country (Houston, TX), I happened upon a tiny bottle of moisturizer snuggly fit under the toilet paper roll in the men's stall while taking care of less-obscene business.  Do you suppose that guy (or girl) had a sad moment later in the day, when realizing they'd misplaced their secret fun sauce?  No worries comrade, you're self-pleasure love lotion is still right where you left it.  I didn't want to ruin your good times by tossing it out, and I also didn't want to risk losing my hand to whatever hideous diseases your gross self walks about with.    

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Where NKOTB and PM meet

The pmbok 4th edition was recently released, and I've spent some time this morning researching the differences between that and the 3rd edition.  The Austin PMI group released this PDF, which details some of those differences.  Being obsessed with order (I only judge others on this criterion though, never myself), my eyes immediately jumped to the numbered bullets on the right side.  Number 1: All process names are in a verb-noun format.  Upon reading that, my thought process went something like:
 
"verb-noun, verb-noun, verb-noun".... "hmmm..."..."hangin'-tough."
 
why did my brain immediately leap to a nkotb reference?? and even then a verb-adverb reference??  i'm ashamed for both getting the grammar wrong and failing to realize I have some deep seeded attachment to 80's boy bands.  And you thought project management was boring. 

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Like a sailor

Translation is a daily challenge in my Netherlandian life.  Fun quirks help laugh me off the lack of englishese though, such as this website which is written in Dutch.  But wait, there's a flag in the upper right corner.  Usually websites have this feature to allow users to quickly identify their home country's flag, click it, and load the page in their home country's language.  However, the ad wizards behind cheaptronics firmly concluded that only a Dutch flag is necessary- which, as you can guess, reloads the page in Dutch.  Because cheaptronics.nl/N_frame.fuckfaces.html understands how I love to make web pages re-load without getting any additional value out of it.  I hope they're hiring.  I could use a couple years of on-site fucking moron training.

Monday, January 5, 2009

First to know

I'd like to tell you that I just discovered most planes don't have a 13th row.

I'd like to, but I won't, because you'll coolly say "Oh you didn't know that? Yeah it's just like how buildings don't have a 13th floor. Oh and most airports don't have a gate 13."

Thanks jackasses, I'll keep my amazement to a subtlely muttered "eep! that's crazy!" and if you ask what I muttered I'll say "nothing go to hell."

I'll never stop trying to fix jet lag

Hammered?  Why not stay up til 4.  Sober?  What the fuck am I doing up at 1:19 in the morning.

Which brings me to a potential solution...