Small bits:
Jan. 31st, 2008 | 04:55 pm
1. I was just invited to bet in the office Superbowl betting pool. Apparently, you can bet on the following presumably exciting topics: Who will make the first field goal, who will make the first touchdown, the point score breakdown, the number of first downs in the first quarter…
I just had one – well, two – simple questions:
"Who's playing? When is this?"
After some confusion, we agreed that this might not be one of my better bets.
2. Oh, and apparently the New England Patriots are a) a football team and b) evil cheating words that I was surprised to hear repeated in an office environment. This hurts me, because I was born near Boston, so the Patriots are, I suppose, my team by default.
It does not hurt me very much.
3. So yesterday![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
athenakt and I headed out to a new breakfast/bagel/sandwich place near our respective workplaces, a place of mild evil (they have salads, but, right next to the salads, they have waffles, which rather taints their quality of good), not overly accurate lunch service, and, an inexplicably almost complete inability to sell the marzipan produced at their bakery.
Seriously.
Part of the problem was that marzipan had been placed in the same container as some brownies, which, of course, meant that if we only wanted the marzipan (and we only wanted the marzipan) someone was going to have to 1) remove the brownies, a somewhat more difficult enterprise than you might have imagined, 2) try to figure out how much marzipan should really be in a box, an existential problem that would trouble anyone, and 3) try to figure out the resulting price. I'm craving more now, but I'm not sure if I can handle going through the entire process again.
4. From Boing Boing, the story that just speaks for itself, really: Isabella Rosellini does bug porn. Sometimes you really have to wonder if increased access to media and electronic equipment has really benefited the world.
I just had one – well, two – simple questions:
"Who's playing? When is this?"
After some confusion, we agreed that this might not be one of my better bets.
2. Oh, and apparently the New England Patriots are a) a football team and b) evil cheating words that I was surprised to hear repeated in an office environment. This hurts me, because I was born near Boston, so the Patriots are, I suppose, my team by default.
It does not hurt me very much.
3. So yesterday
athenakt and I headed out to a new breakfast/bagel/sandwich place near our respective workplaces, a place of mild evil (they have salads, but, right next to the salads, they have waffles, which rather taints their quality of good), not overly accurate lunch service, and, an inexplicably almost complete inability to sell the marzipan produced at their bakery.Seriously.
Part of the problem was that marzipan had been placed in the same container as some brownies, which, of course, meant that if we only wanted the marzipan (and we only wanted the marzipan) someone was going to have to 1) remove the brownies, a somewhat more difficult enterprise than you might have imagined, 2) try to figure out how much marzipan should really be in a box, an existential problem that would trouble anyone, and 3) try to figure out the resulting price. I'm craving more now, but I'm not sure if I can handle going through the entire process again.
4. From Boing Boing, the story that just speaks for itself, really: Isabella Rosellini does bug porn. Sometimes you really have to wonder if increased access to media and electronic equipment has really benefited the world.