From a young Ghanan cow-orker, at yesterday's company picnic, when a soccer game was breaking out and I was throwing myself into the middle of it:

"Okay, lessee. We'll put all the Africans on one side, with the Europeans and the Asians. And on the other side, we'll have...um, Scooterbird."

As a footnote: ow. I'm sore.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord ( Read more... )

"Good morning, customers. Salutations. What it is." -- Conductor on the Metro this morning. Incidentally, the next words out of his mouth were, "This is the Yellow Line train to Huntington..." even though we were leaving Greenbelt. I know they extended the Yellow out to Fort Totten; do they actually have it going all the way out to Greenbelt?

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"I didn't bargain to be helpful, I just bargained to be truthful...occasionally." -- Kid-2

"Hey, I'm all bundled up, just like the Abdominal Snowman!" - crazieabby

Well, Geek Combat came and went, and oh, boy, did we tank. A fifth-place finish as we simply failed to get untracked all night. Rick did a fantastic job with the questions; he made them a bit harder than usual by asking questions that had a number of conceivably good answers rather than just trying to get obscure. (Examples: "Name the top ranked ( Read more... )

"Hello Kevin! It's like 'Hello Kitty', but with more Macintoshes!"

- ednoria, concerning shadowcaptain

From Kid-1: "Norway uses the metric system! So when they say 'thirteen', it really means nine!"

Am back, and as we stopped for food on the way back from the airport, work called. Customer was going ballistic, and no one else (including the guy I'd specifically asked to cover me) was picking up the phone. I think I've got them to the point that their blinkenlightz are in sequence now; whatever problems they had were not network-related and I ( Read more... )

I have, in the course of my duties and as a private citizen, met several of my legislators, at the county, state, and national levels, and found that the vast majority of them are neither knights in shining armor nor foul spawn of hell, but normal people, for the most part, with strengths and weaknesses that correspond with the average guy you ( Read more... )