Friday stuff

[yendi]

shadesong is still sick, but I've got to be in the office today. Feh.

On the plus side, one of the meetings today involves free pizza from Savage!

sweinberg has a pretty damned definitive look at the state of horror remakes over here.

The ever-progressive state of Kansas is now attempting to get clinics to divulge abortion records. The rationale, of course? "to protect Kansas children." Yup. Pull the other one. It's got bells on.

I'm all in favor of free speech, in general, but I really think we need to make the phrase "doing it for the children" (and variants thereof) a capital crime. It would improve the gene pool so much.

I'm moving cubes at work. Long story there. But I opened the file cabinet of the cube I'm moving into, and there files there that belonged to J, who left here three years ago. Yeah, that cabinet's seen a lot of use.

Anyone watching today's Jeopardy Ultimate Tournament of Champions will see my old academic team and debate teammate, Al Lin, who was a five-day champ in the early '90s. Also, yesterday was the second occurance during the UTOC of one player ensuring a win for another on the final question (exactly the same scenario as described here). In both cases, the strategic mistakes were made by former college champs, something I'm assuming is a coincidence, but makes me wonder if they just don't think about strategy as much.

Finally, we watched disk one of Wonderfalls last night. *sigh* Jaye Tyler ranks very high up there in the ranks of fictional characters with whom I've fallen in love.

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[eyewrist.livejournal.com]

I'm moving cubes at work. Long story there. But I opened the file cabinet of the cube I'm moving into, and there files there that belonged to J, who left here three years ago. Yeah, that cabinet's seen a lot of use.



That happens all the time here at work.. except our files are time sensitive stuff... it's really not good.

[yendi]

In this case, it turned out to be his old dissertation stuff. I'm pretty sure there's no use for information on historic Portugal around here.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

How much did Al win?

[yendi]

$58,903, according to the Jeopardy webpage (although I think he entered the ToC that year, and presumably got a consolation prize there as well).

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

That's a nice pile of Benjamins. What did he spend it on?

[thermidor.livejournal.com]

iirc, he told me at the time it was going to pay for post-grad work.

um, hi, btw, and apologies for jumping in.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Quite all right.

I'd have hoped he spent it on something more fun. Like a trip to Australia, or a DeLorean that travels through time.

[yendi]

Al was always one of the more practical people I knew.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Uh, maybe you should make a note that the cube-moing is A Good Thing, so people won't worry. :)

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

You move cubes all day.

Your gain a Strength Point!

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

I don't think that Al was too happy with the results. :-/

[yendi]

Yeah, that blown daily double on Elizabeth 1 nearly killed him. I'd like to think that if he'd gotten that and held a lead, he wouldn't have choked on such an easy Final Jeopardy.