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Adieu, Office Drudgery - - MSNBC.com

book is packed with subversive techniques for looking productive without actually doing anything

isn’t that about 95% of the day for most of corporate america? sure seems that way.

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Putin reportedly bolts with Kraft’s ring

uh huh, “gift.” i bet it wasn’t but when he gives it back he’ll be all like “i don’t understand english very well”

when you see images of the 80s celtics winning and the crowd rushing the floor of the old boston garden, don’t you kind of miss that sort of fan celebration? i mean i know they still do it in college, but in the nba, especially now post-malice in the palace or whatever you want to call the melee in detroit, can’t have that anymore, which is a little sad.

also, whatever happened to the post game shots of the locker room, champagne being sprayed EVERYWHERE. athletes (e.g. jordan) so happy, so tired, hugging the trophy with every remaining ounce of strength. what happened to that? heck, didn’t they used to even present the trophies in the locker rooms? and as a corollary, for times they still show/do the locker room champagne stuff, i really hate that now the teams like hermetically seal the lockers with plastic tarps or whatever. hey i know these guys clothing, shoes, accessories cost more than i made last year, but they can’t afford it? having the lockers all taped up to protect against the champagne just takes away from it a little. btw, if they stopped televising the champagne celebrations because of the little hubbub over that college team that did it, i’ll be upset about how ridiculous this country is.

last thing, one day, one guy, after winning the championship, should bust out the huge, formula 1 sized champagne bottle. spray your teammates with that. it’d be awesome.

abc kept showing stats about how this game was the lowest scoring in the shot clock era for a game 7. but watching the game, seriously, didn’t feel like a badly played, slowed down, defensive game.

how great was the CRAZY mulleted pic of manu when abc had the chiron (i think that’s the right word) of manu’s basketball accomplishments.

the refs called this game VERY tightly! i really think it is better to call it tight than to let them play all kinds of hard.

in the mid-3rd quarter, spurs down 5, manu made a wild drive and turned it over. that was the moment detroit could’ve taken over. but then duncan became a beast.

hubie brown came up with the best alternative nickname for robert horry, intangible man. he made SO many plays, hustle rebounds, defense, taking charges.

you know how great the spurs played if you notice little things. during the final stretch, starting in the late 3rd (esp those kick out 3s from duncan or the manu drive and kick out to duncan), you noticed that the spurs got the shot they wanted, but more importantly, if you noticed all the shots left the shooters hands in rhythm but the shot clock was ALWAYS at like 1.

sheed played great. but fouls hurt him.

i hope larry brown can come back and coach. and i hope that if he can’t and he DOES take the cleveland job that people lay off him because his participation in the league is a good thing.

i think duncan complained more to the refs during this series than i’ve ever seen. usually he’s arm around the refs, talking, etc.

it was great to see as soon as the game was over, you saw popovich come over to larry brown to comiserate, etc. but the greatness was to see bruce bowen run over too.

you saw this year, like last year, how much the teams played for the guys on the floor. how happy everyone was, how many hugs were going around. and not the cursory hugs, but extended hugs. hugs of joy, relief, whatever.

i can’t stand the espn commentators. talking a lot of smack on air, online before the game, and now let’s see what they say singing in praise of all things spurs.

i was beyond glad to see the manu of old re-emerge in the second half. what a head’s up play at the very end to not take the layup and run off some time (though i think with the time remaining left it’d be fine to take the layup).

i’ll say it again, not high shooting percentages, low scoring, etc, but it was a well played game.

i want to see sheed hand over his belt to duncan. i demand this.

did eva longoria make abc promise not to video her? you saw one shot of her running off camera after obviously hugging tony parker. other than not wanting to piss off one of the stars of one of their breakout shows, you know abc must’ve been pissed about this because nothing networks like more than having their “stars” in stands at sporting events, and you know, being able to show them. but whatevs, eva probably not sitting in abc seats, but tony parker provided seats.

oh man, the rest of the summer will be interminable. at least there’s no hockey. only a few more weeks until football starts.

A Dizzying Array of Options for Using the Web on Cellphones - New York Times

not a particularly interesting article, but posting it anyways because it quoted peter rojas, editor of my favorite blog (and dream job, well i’d like to think my dream job, but who knows how much money they make over there in the WIN network) ENGADGET. if you have any interest in tech/electronics news, that’s the place to go.

CNN.com - House approves flag-burning amendment - Jun 22, 2005

“Ask the men and women who stood on top of the [World] Trade Center,” said Rep. Randy [Duke] Cunningham, R-California. “Ask them and they will tell you: pass this amendment.”

it is so fucking wrong to invoke the memory of the 9/11 victims and dishonor them by using them as a cheap political ploy. for all anyone knows, and it’s a good likelihood, that some of the people who died that day would be against this amendment.

next thing you know they’ll try to pass an amendment saying you can’t burn the constitution or something even though you can go to any law school and find free pocket copies that no student keeps for more than a week because you can always get another. it’s so stupid.

CNN.com - Utah Scout feeling ‘good’ after ordeal - Jun 22, 2005

“We’ve also told him don’t talk to strangers. … When an ATV or horse came by, he got off the trail. … When they left, he got back on the trail.”

“His biggest fear, he told me, was someone would steal him,” she said.

Brennan’s uncle, Bob Hawkins, said his nephew may have been afraid to contact the strangers because they weren’t using the password his family had adopted.

The family explained that Brennan was born prematurely and he is socially immature as a result.

i seriously don’t know what to think about this. let’s go in order. umm, if you are lost for more than a DAY out in the “wilderness” why the hell would you hide from people passing on the trail? why would you think that they want to “steal” you? and if they do steal you, at least there’s a higher chance you’d get water and food than if you stayed just wandering in the wild.

second, the boy isn’t immature because he was a premie directly. he’s immature because his parents are too overprotective. he hid from strangers because he thought they’d steal him? he didn’t talk to people on the trail (mind you he’s been wandering and alone for 3-4 days) because they didn’t know the fucking password?

the article also says during a press conference at his house the kids “sat at his mother’s feet behind the microphones until the end of the news conference.” yeah, this is a socially awkward kid and now nothing will change that because his parents will not coddle him even more.

HoustonChronicle.com - Bike couriers risk necks in pursuit of fun, profit

i have to be honest, i’ve lived in houston for 3 years now and only this past year did i really see bike couriers regularly. and i live downtown.

OKCupid! The Commonly Confused Words Test

i hate to brag so i won’t go into my score. which wasn’t that great. or was it? i refuse to post my scores.

50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com

i’m not even c-list on blogebrity. haha, i have single digit readership even. but shouldn’t i be one of the 50 coolest websites of 2005? come on? who’s cooler than me? i kid i kid.

i will say any list of the best/coolest blogs that DOESN’T include engadget (the best tech blog out there) is a crock. even though i regularly visit a LOT of the blogs on this list.

SI.com - More Sports - Tyson told to stop construction of pigeon coop - Tuesday June 21, 2005 6:52PM

of course, that’s probably a lot of poop, but the man has always loved the pigeons, except for when he ripped their heads off or whatever he said in his post-fight interview with espn.

CNN.com - Found Scout back home with family - Jun 22, 2005

Brennan “was in no mood to give us a lot of details” about how he came to be lost or what he did during those four days

if i’m this kid’s parents, i’m making him tell me how exactly he got lost. why he was out by himself (a question i’d angrily pose to the cub scout people too).

btw, aren’t gps locator things cheap enough that when sending kids (cub/boy/eagly/brownie/girl/etc scouts) out on these camping trips that people can afford to get enough to tie them to the kids’ shoes or something? i mean you can get gps locators for your dogs! we cant just use something similar and cheap for camping?

CNN.com - FBI: Bride ‘just wanted to disappear’ - Jun 21, 2005

but she did not feel like she had done anything wrong

wtf? she didn’t think running out on this guy was wrong? fine. but running away and not telling ANYONE, knowing full well that people are going to expect foul play post-scott peterson, and you don’t think that’s wrong?

and i love how she wanted to go to austin because of matthew mcconaughey talk about it.

and what’s up with keeping the old romantic ex-bf txt messages on her phone? regardless of the runaway bit, did her fiance know about them? because that might be enough for me to at least think “maybe this girl isn’t ready for marriage” beyond running away.

i think she shouldn’t be allowed to make money off this. i think her movie deal proceeds should be used to FULLY pay back the county for the search and to set up counselling. that she will profit from this really makes me sick.

how old is this lady that her MOTHER is still doing her banking? so ridiculous on so many levels.

CNN.com - List: AFI’s top 100 movie quotes - Jun 22, 2005

but this one isn’t so bad. it’s obviously skewed older, but that’s not so bad either. though i’d venture to say people younger than me wouldn’t agree with this list at all.

CNN.com - Royals cost each Briton $1 a year - Jun 22, 2005

value-for-money monarchy

haha, the brit royals cost their subjects just over $1/year. that’s nuts! it’s funny to me they still have royalty. and that the royalty is still so dependent on the people. you’d think they were all independently wealthy, but you’d be wrong (except for william and harry who inherited a ton from princess diana).