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I’ve worked at two places where all of the conference rooms were named for tropical islands. That way, I guess, if an employee complains that he isn’t given enough vacation time, management can reply “You spent the whole day in the Bahamas! What more do you want?”
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From time to time I find myself reading a book and thinking “well, this is the best book ever!” Similarly, several times a month I read magazines that fill me with the conviction that “this is the best magazine there ever was!” Those that can do this month after month are wondrous things to me, reading matter so compelling as to temporarily and enjoyably overwhelm my sense of proportion. Here are some that come to mind…

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It cuts paper. It will detect registration marks, then cut complex shapes for paper toys, mechanically-executed archigami, paper automata, etc. Just think of the mayhem I could cause! See it…adore it… (link is a Youtube movie by paper automata mogul Rob Ives)

Hear! Hear! As someone who is often called upon to create and send it or build tools to create and send it, I wish all my customers would read and absorb this: HTML Email is Still Evil

The happy corner of my cubicle:

The less happy corner of my cubicle:

The sum: a fairly happy cubicle, where I can serve my alien overlords cruel corporate masters with relative equanimity.

The spam subject line that serves as a title for this post is one of those things that’s somehow both a bit creepy and a bit amusing to me, but that I’m pretty sure will be neither for others.

That’s not the case with this week’s Auspicious Spam Award winner: “Solemn Naginata-do Trick Shot.” This one made me think of my old friend Conrad, somehow, but also filled me with a kind of regret. “Man,” I thought, “it’s too bad they’re just pimping erectile dysfunction drugs, because I really, really would like to learn a solemn naginata-do trick shot or two. That would solve all of my problems, I’m pretty sure.”

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Originally uploaded by benkyoka.

I’m just amazed at what a great big sister our Panda is. A creature entered her home and nudged her out of her position as the sole center of the universe, forcing her to share Mommy, Daddy, toys, cats, and space in the bathtub. But she loves and protects – and usually even tolerates – said creature. Bravo, my beastly daughter.