Techie Manager

Fantastic.

This story is most excellent.
The new Yankee Stadium may be cursed!
A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team’s locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction workers told The Post yesterday.
“In August, a Red Sox [...]

Little did I know that back in 1975, Eric Idle of Monty Python had a television show called Rutland Weekend Television, a sketch show about “Britain’s smallest television network”. It was the inspiration for the brilliant Beatles spoof All You Need is Cash, featuring Eric Idle and Neil Innes (as well as John [...]

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c/o Haikuvies:

Peter hates his job
day after meaningless day
in a cubicle
Missing cover sheets
on your TPS reports
did you get memo?
Evil printer drives
Michael Bolton to madness
PC Load Letter
Hypnotherapist
dies, leaving Peter sanguine
skipping work to fish
Lumbergh and the Bobs
bring layoffs and misery
white collars, dark times
Pissed-off IT guys
hatch plot to rob Initech
(see: Superman III)
Red stapler is gone
Milton carries out his threat
orange [...]

Previously…

An excellent editorial by Carl Hiaasen in the February 17th Miami Herald.
Florida’s plucky refusal to embrace 21st century education is one reason that prestigious tech industries have avoided the state, allowing so many of our high-school graduates (and those who come close) to launch prosperous careers in the fast-food, bartending and service sectors of the [...]

This is horrrrrrrrrrrible…

From Cartoon Brew:
One of the highlights of the Annie Awards last Friday night was a small video concocted by the cast of Spongebob Squarepants (M.C. Tom Kenny, along with presenters Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence and Bill Fagerbakke), created to prove they shouldn’t be stereotyped simply as Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward and Sandy.