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Retail Hell
Went into work tonight. People left me alone. Work was the usual. No surprises. The company conducts a survey of employee morale using a web-based system owned and maintained by the Gallup Organization. This time they rigged a curtained 'booth' to ensure 'privacy and anonymity'. HELLO?! "Thank you for participating in Viewpoint. Please sign on using your employee ID..." Me being me, I know the loophole to bring up an active web browser, so I feel it is my duty to bring up porn and exit the booth as soon as I know some employees are around, although I won't be tacky and bring along 'props'...
Poolhall Junkies
Caught the ass-end of a trick shot tournament on ESPN and saw that the winner was Mike Massey. Hey! I've seen that guy before! He played St. Louis Louie, a billiard tournament pro in the film Poolhall Junkies. Right on!
Pirates!
Arrrh. Sid Meier's Pirates! Came out for the PC on Tuesday. I played his original incarnation on the C-64 as a kid. I was hooked. It is a completely open-ended historical strategy game. What made it so cool was the fact that you really do learn a TON of history, geography, and resource management. Can you name all the port cities of Hispanola(Coast from Mexico to Brazil) or all the major islands from Cuba to Grenada? In order? Do you know who Edward Teach, Henry Morgan, or Jean Laffite were? I do... It was because of this game and the guide, which was practically a History Textbook, that went with it. Now to get my Letter of Marque as an English privateer and start patrolling...
Went into work tonight. People left me alone. Work was the usual. No surprises. The company conducts a survey of employee morale using a web-based system owned and maintained by the Gallup Organization. This time they rigged a curtained 'booth' to ensure 'privacy and anonymity'. HELLO?! "Thank you for participating in Viewpoint. Please sign on using your employee ID..." Me being me, I know the loophole to bring up an active web browser, so I feel it is my duty to bring up porn and exit the booth as soon as I know some employees are around, although I won't be tacky and bring along 'props'...
Poolhall Junkies
Caught the ass-end of a trick shot tournament on ESPN and saw that the winner was Mike Massey. Hey! I've seen that guy before! He played St. Louis Louie, a billiard tournament pro in the film Poolhall Junkies. Right on!
Pirates!
Arrrh. Sid Meier's Pirates! Came out for the PC on Tuesday. I played his original incarnation on the C-64 as a kid. I was hooked. It is a completely open-ended historical strategy game. What made it so cool was the fact that you really do learn a TON of history, geography, and resource management. Can you name all the port cities of Hispanola(Coast from Mexico to Brazil) or all the major islands from Cuba to Grenada? In order? Do you know who Edward Teach, Henry Morgan, or Jean Laffite were? I do... It was because of this game and the guide, which was practically a History Textbook, that went with it. Now to get my Letter of Marque as an English privateer and start patrolling...
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