Cigarettes

It’s a scene from the film How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying where the main character tries to make it look like he’s been working all night, right before the CEO walks through the door.

Half a dozen DOJ employees trying to figure out how to cram poor Guadalupe into a paper shredder from Staples while the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” theme song plays in the background.

I bring a sort of “fraud” vibe to the financial statements that auditors really don’t like.

Fucking Murphy’s Law strikes again.

Dating my now wife. The company refused to admit that was the reason. My bosses boss, who called to notify me of my termination while I was home sick, gave me some weird spiel about me “overstepping my authority” and refused to elaborate further. But I’m 99% sure that was why even though we violated no official company policies, because my [now] wife was fired on the same day. They took a really dim (albeit unwritten) view of dating between employees. Even ones that worked in different departments, at different offices.

Ironically, VP’s banging their secretaries on the side, with everyone knowing, was apparently fine.

Didn’t really matter. They kept telling me to do things that I considered unethical and I kept telling them “no” so it wasn’t going to last. They lost a good employee. I got a good wife. As far as I’m concerned, I came out on top.

We’re talking about a guy who managed to run multiple casinos into the ground. Casinos. Businesses which at their core consists of people handing you money and you getting to keep between 25-50% of it on average.

On top of that, he was laundering gobs of money through them (the Taj Mahal for sure) and still couldn’t manage to keep them afloat.

Running the Federal Government like it was part of the Trump Organization was one of the few promises he actually kept and boy does it show.

We don’t need to live in space. Space is not naturally habitable by humans. We just need to stop fucking up the one planet that is.

One of the best things about maturing – which often comes with but is not guaranteed by age – is learning to be comfortable with yourself. Teenagers tend to spend a lot of their emotional energy clamoring for approval from peers, not yet aware that it’s really their own approval they need.

This unfulfilled need can lead teens to do or say all kinds of silly or even hurtful things. Some teens grow into adults without ever learning how to love themselves. I don’t think that’s the case for most people. Just a small minority but you may encounter them in the workplace from time to time.

It’s also worth noting that psychologists believe around 10% of the population suffers from some type of personality disorder, most of them undiagnosed. I’m reasonably certain that I’ve encountered at least a few of these people in my career.

Well unfortunately the President of the United States is bad at business and the Republicans are …Republicans. The only thing that matters to either are rich people.

Fun fact: You can still order a current print volume of World Book Encyclopedia for the low price of $1,349.00

proof

I wonder if this is part of the reason why Cox stopped listing their small business plans and prices online.

And then there’s the “promotional discount” that expires after a year or two, requiring you to call back in and threaten to cancel your service before they’ll give you back the same price you were already paying. It helps if you actually have other ISP options.

I also think you should not be allowed to abandon your copper infrastructure without offering a replacement. AT&T refuses to offer new DSL service even if they have an old POTS line connected to your house because “we don’t do DSL anymore” but I guarantee they would have a problem with it if I ripped their pedistal out of my front yard.

How dare you! President Trump has ended over seven thousand wars since the beginning of his second term. He also single handedly eliminated human trafficking, poverty, all illnesses, and climate change (which is still a liberal hoax). If that were not enough, our dear leader sacrificed himself to defeat Thanos which the low energy avengers were too weak to do. He then raised himself from the dead, ascending like a Phoenix from the ashes and returning to grace us with his wonderful benevolence for the rest of our days.

Praise be.

A few years ago, corps were just throwing shit at the wall to see what would stick. Everybody who wasn’t a software company decided they were now a “software company”. I liked the salary that came with it but the actual projects sucked. Working on stuff you know is DOA is very demoralizing.

Have you ever heard the story of Bobby Tables the Dropped? I thought not. It’s not a story that AI would tell you.

Planned to go fishing. Spent half an hour taking videos of two pileated woodpeckers doing a mating dance instead.

True story. Couldn’t help it for some reason. It was fascinating.

There’s the tarrifs and theres the bizarre anti-renewable energy sentiment harbored by the current administration.

Personally, I think that’s just coming from power utilities pushing the idea that, “it’s cool if WE build a solar array but it’s not cool if YOU do it.”

while rich people can be reckless spenders.

In the late 1800’s, the Vanderbilt’s were one of the wealthiest families in the world. Right up until they each blew their respective shares of the family fortune by doing shit like building houses that they couldn’t afford to maintain.

K’NEX. I used to build all kinds of cool stuff out of those when I was a kid.