Kids Co-Workers Say The Darnedest Things!

NP was amazed at www.exoticmeatsandmore.com and he was glancing through their list of offerings. He said "oh sure, lion is out of stock, but we can get you some shark fin soup."

VFD: Oh, that's easy, you just go to the Sea of Japan...
NP: (disapproving tone) yeah . . .
VFD: (enthusiastic tone) well that's good though, because shark fin soup is sustainable! You cut off the fins and you can just throw 'em back in the water!
NP: (LOL) I don't think it works like that.
VFD: (LOL) I'm pretty sure it does.

Note: cutting off the fins and tossing a shark back in the ocean is a dick move. At least have the decency to shoot it in the head first! ********

A customer asked about a spectrum analyzer, which is an instrument that shows a display of amplitude vs. frequency (or wavelength, if you do the maths) of an electromagnetic signal. Wires have a physical property called "length." Wires have neither frequency nor wavelength on their own.

FOG: Customer Question: Will this measure the wave length of a piece of coax?
VFD: A piece of coax has no wavelength. This customer is worth blocking

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Note: the links are what I was thinking at the time. FOG is slightly too proffessional to have caught my meaning over the instant messenger program.

VFD: Who likes candle smells up there in the office wing?
FOG: All the ladies ?
VFD: LOL
FOG: Not sure if understand purpose of your question
VFD: NP has a candle warmer which releases the scent without all the pesky burn-the-building-down action
VFD: this room = too big for one candle warmer, does nothing
VFD: is willing to donate to the front office wing
FOG: Do you have to have wax or anything?
VFD: have to have candle. in glass container
FOG: It is plug in?
VFD: is
FOG: How hot gets?
VFD: hot enough to melt candle?
VFD: !!!
FOG: Depends on candle
FOG: Hot enough to HURT?
VFD: wow

Kids People Say The Darnedest Things!

#4 is now 2 years old. Tonight he came into the kitchen as I was awesomeing around the house and said . . .

#4: My necklace!
VFD: (turns around, sees #4 with canteen hanging around his neck)
VFD: That's a pretty big necklace
#4: Yah!
VFD: It's like you've got a midget hanging from your necklace
#4: (goes and plays somewhere else, oblivious to adult humor)

For those who are too young to catch it, too non-afro-murikin, or both: you didnt' miss much, really.

¡Locura en el Trabajo!

We have cleaning buddies that are supposed to sweep & mop the floor 2x/week to keep the dust down inside where I work. Today, they came around with a big dustmop for a broom and swept up most of the big chunks prior to the mopping. A 2" screw was left calmly sitting where moments before it had been surrounded by other debris on the floor.

I asked NJ if he wanted to see something amusing. He did and he came over to my AO. I told him the story. He chuckled & said it would be funnier if I cordoned off the area and put a little caution cone or something.




















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You may guess from the language on the cone what is the principal language of los amigos limpianos. I took a photo and then, because even I am not that obnoxious, I picked up the screw, threw away the cone and barrer tape (both made from post-it notes) and went on about my day.

USA Economy Unexpectedly To Improve Next Year

In case I have been insufficiently clear on the subject: When Romney begins to be perceived by the business community in America as the likely winner, the economic indicator polls will start to turn toward "right track" and "positive outlook."  After Romney wins the White House, a stronger-than-1% recovery will begin.  On or before Inauguration Day, the economy will begin to come roaring back as business owners realize they no longer have a self-declared enemy* for a POTUS.  

Then within a couple of years the initial headrush of freedom will wear off and things slow down, hampered by regulations that were never taken back when Romney got into office  -IF- we allow it.  IF the Tea Party hammers on Mitten/Ryan, the whole thing could be turned around.  IF Obamacare and a few tens of thousands of pages of executive department regulations are reversed, the economy picks up.  If Obamacare is allowed to stay, the economy only gets slightly better.  Either way: with Romney, we will see growth.  With obama, we would see a continued "growth" rate of ~1% but everyone will somehow be worse off except government and union employees, and maybe a few well-connected-to-Democrats businesses.

Unexpectedly: What they say who were not paying attention before the fact

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* the line is ambiguous, like the man himself.  If you want him to hate private enterprise, he does.  If you want him to feel like the token black guy feeling out of place in a corporate job vs. community organizing like he wanted to do, that's how he felt.  Either way: Barack Obama described -in his own book about himself- working at a real job vs. rabble-rousing as being behind enemy lines.

Going To Let Joe Just Be Joe?

So apparently it is okay to be rude, now.  Because Joe Biden was sure rude to Paul Ryan.  Make that, the man a heartbeat away from being the most powerful man in the world, was very rude to a member of the national legislature, on one of the most-viewed televised events of the day.  On purpose.

Rush says Biden was a very appealing debater, to the kooks in the core of the Democrat party.  Maybe.  I wonder if the obamaphone crow-voice lady would have been laughing at the 80+ times he interrupted his opponent.

The Narrative Falls Apart

The operators at the Department of State have refused to fall on their swords.  You remember how the murderous attack on our consulate in Libya was officially designated as the result of spontaneous protests over a movie nobody saw since its release several months ago?  Yeah, now it is coming out that State had NO intelligence to that effect and the Administration was LYING.

It was, in fact, a coordinated attack on the anniversary of 9/11, AND the now-dead Ambassador had REPEATEDLY requested better security and been denied. And the private local security people gave up the secret location of our hiding Ambassador. As our sensitive documents blow around on the ground, unsecured even still today, CNN told us how the Ambassador's journal recorded his security concerns leading up to the day.  The 'spontaneous protest' story is unravelled, and it is increasingly clear it was made-up.  State says they didn't make it up, and they were testifying before Congress as I write this.  They will be telling the truth or risk going to prison - and they didn't make it up.  This leaves a shortening list of people who came up with this story.  It includes various people who are or who want to be President of the United States of America.

This is not Soviet Russia.  This is America (still, for now) and we have the Internet (still, for now). You can't DO this sort of thing here and expect to get away with it. The only people who will buy the first official "movei protest" line a month from now are the low-informed voters who are voting for Obama regardless of anything.  He could rape and murder a school full of little boys and they would vote for him.  For everyone else, he has damaged his reputation very badly with this very badly-done cover-up.

IF "they" will knowingly make up stories and LIE about this event . . . about what else are you being misled?

we knew in first 24 hours that it was planned, not a result of the protesting.  First thing heard at embassy was explosion, gunfire.  Obama KNEW an attack was underway, and he . . . went to bed for the night, to get a good night's sleep.  THIS is the reason.  He is demonstrably -from this event alone- not suited to be the Commander-In-Chief of the most powerful military force on the planet.  But . . . if you could manipulate the Press into convincing the People it were just some protest gone out of hand and the guy with a rocket launcher just happened to show up, that is maybe not as bad as going to sleep when your people are under surprise attack.

P.S. going around spending our taxpayer dollars to tell people about the excuse/cover video story and getting them all worked-up, leading to days/weeks of violent protests all around the muslim world does NOT quite qualify as "smart diplomacy."  We'll see if Secretary Mrs. Clinton ends up under the bus on this one.

Well, There Goes Greece.

Greek society is officially circling the drain.  When the government is warning of a collapse like happened to Weimar Germany, and the citizenry storms the Ministry of Defense, and you're officially bankrupt and NOT even past the start line fixing your economy . . .

Stick your nation with a fork, it's done.  Coming soon to a united State near you?

Madness At Work!

Overheard where I work:

"HIGHLY unproffessional, men!"
(new employees walk in)
"Most work places, you don't have people poking holes in the ceiling by kicking the thigh bones of dead animals around."

Leave Well Enough Alone!

VFD: What are you doing?
Darling Wife: (unreadable facial expression)
VFD: Wait
VFD: Do I want to know what you are doing?
DW: (shakes head, giggles)
VFD: Okay. (walks away)

If someone says you don't want to know . . . trust them!

Way to Be, Sony

It took a day, but I finally came to an important realization:

Sony could give a flying [deleted] about users who want to run 64-bit MS Vista on older laptops.  You want drivers?  Suck it!  Because shut up, and buy a new PC already.

Okay, 32-bit it is.  Who needs an extra gig o' ram anyhow?