the name of my next nonfiction book:

WNY Points to anyone who gets this:

"Wide Right: The Buffalo Story."

Dave says Buffalo's only consolation is that you can still afford to eat wings if you're on unemployment, 'cause they're cheap.

work funnies

So, I'm trying to edit the copy of the product pages on our website. One of them, for a product called Assessments, had a tagline touting it as "quick and easy [various types of] assessments."

"That's too cutesy," the boss said. "It's not suitable for a product page, just for a marketing thing."
Hm. Ok.
I went to the manager-type, and told him the boss's assessment of the page, and left it for him to look at.
"Quick and easy is cutesy?" the manager said, incredulous. He stared at it thoughtfully. "I got it," he said. "Plodding and difficult."

ROFLMAO. Let HIM be the one to say that to the boss...

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http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000755.html

Defective Yeti's take on 9/11 + 2 years.
Pretty funny. I've been shirking today, so I should probably get to work, but I just read like fifty blogs and had a blast. Man... I am so not a fan of Bloggers In General, but I so totally am one... Just like my whole creative writing thing...
Sigh. I think I'm just antisocial.

t04st0r b0x3n

I'm getting one of these. Dave and I are going to build one as a backup server and replacement webserver.

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http://salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/03/15/widow_wrath/print.html
"Really, I am angry with both of us, that we had no paranormal contingency plan, a place and time to meet after death, a celestial Wall Street corner similar to that one where we frequently met in life. We should have made arrangements for this, along with a promise that every night, at midnight, the dead person would say hello to the living one by flickering the lights. I hate that we wrongly assumed that we would be healthy and happy and together for many years to come, and wasted so much time because of this false sense of abundance. "