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Had lunch at JR’s Barbeque around the Culver City / Los Angeles area on La Cienaga. Good barbeque to be had there. After washing my hands, I can still smell the BBQ sauce. I’ve been smelling it all day, but it was worth it!
At work I happen to sit right next to the training room and our project just started bringing in users to train them on SAP. The door was left wide open and I could hear everything that was going on in the training room. With some effort I was able to ignore the lecture, but at one point all kinds of noise was coming out of the training room. So I politely asked the instructor if the door could be closed, didn’t make a scene or anything. All was fine after the door was closed, or so I thought. A few minutes later the training lead comes over and starts asking why I was complaining and that I should learn to live with it as training would go on for the next few weeks. Turns out the training room had some VP types in the room and they didn’t take kindly to a little peon like me telling them to close the door.
So a friend at work forwarded this joke to me, not realizing that I am both an MBA and an engineer. Now that I’m thinking about, I’m not sure if he meant to insult me as an MBA or share a little humor between engineers, hmm…….
A MBA and an Engineer go on a camping trip, set up their tent, and fell asleep.
Some hours later, the Engineer wakes his MBA friend. ” Look up at the sky and tell me what you see.”
The MBA replies, “I see millions of stars.”
The Engineer asks “What does that tell you?”
The MBA ponders for a minute:
“Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.
Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo.
Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three.
Theologically, it’s evident the Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant.
Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow.
What does it tell you?”
The Engineer friend is silent for a moment, then speaks: “Practically…Someone has stolen our tent”.
Actually heard at work:
And I almost got medieval on a printer the other day. Pretty soon I’ll be in the boiler room looking for my stapler.
If you don’t know what any of this means, check out the movie Office Space on DVD.
The Cure, The Cure
Oh how I’ve missed Robert Smith’s depressed yowl. The Cure returns to their earlier, rawer, more guitar oriented sound. This is a solid album filled with catchy melodies and energy. I heard the album was recorded mostly live with little of usual studio overlays and what-not that have weighed down past albums. So the result is that the album is simple, straight forward alt-pop at its best.
Ozomatli, street signs
Okay, so I’m a little late to this party known as Ozomatli. So what, I don’t care, better late than never, and this is one groovy album. No one fuses salsa, latin-jazz, rock, and hip-hop as seamlessly as these guys. I had the good fortune of being taken to one of their shows, and this album does a good job of catching the groove in your pants feeling that you get at the show. Pop this one in your car and, adjust the suspension to let the car ride low and try to sing along in broken Spanish.