Relevant translation

Let's try this again... Note to self: s-e-n-d stands for send.

The paragraph below is the beginnig of today's daily devotion:

Jesus says, 'Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and he has been cast into the sea.' (Mark 9:42)

Here is the relevant translation in the context of jerkwads keeping or leading child-like persons away from Christ:
"OH NO YOU DI' N'T!!"

Relevent

Taxes suck

“Golly, just imagine the unemployment rate if we started throwing out government employees who can’t, in ten seconds or less, explain exactly what the heck it is they do for a living.”

 

 

It was tough to choose my favorite line from this particular post, but that’s why it’s a link. Thanks Tony.

It turns out... I'm that guy.

I'm walking up to the airplane at ~8:45 for a nearly on-time departure and try to look at myself from an outsider point of view.

I hear that my flight is boarding and I am both on the phone and on my computer trying to do a couple last minute tasks before having to shut down. I get off the phone and stride up to the gate without my ticket. There are a couple of men that seem to take pride in being the last to board, so when I stepped aside after realizing that my boarding pass was still in my pocket, they tried to wait for me, insisting that the person before them in line should stay before them in line. The gate agent reached for their tickets in order to scoot them along. So here I stand with my ticket pinched between the only pinchable fingers that aren’t claimed by other belongings, proactive assistance from the gate agent in removing my old tags (I stood there a bit awkwardly as if it were his duty in the first place and I wanted to take full advantage of my ticket fare) I thanked him kindly and strode downstairs to the outside boarding path of our little jet. as I’m heading to the valet cart to drop off my pink-tag-bag, this is when the self survey kicks in: I'm dragging my rolling bag with my right hand, wearing my backpack, and in my left hand I have my Grande Americano with non-fat milk clutched importantly, my blackberry being held easily with friction between my palm and the classic Starbucks cup, and between my index and middle finger I have expertly pinched my boarding pass so that I can verify I’m in seat 3C and prove it to the flight attendant if necessary.

This seems like a mess waiting to happen, but the presented demeanor was actually multitasking-effortlessness; which is when it hit me: I'm the guy that they make fun of in the movies. I'm the corporate yuppie.

Awesome.

Is DragonCon in town?

I should be ashamed of myself for so quickly jumping to the conclusion that these 2 individuals were headed to some kind of Nerd convention, but it was too fast to be conscious.
I was walking up to the fare gates down in the bowels of the Peachtree center station when w member of each gender sharing the same distaste for general hygiene passed excitedly in the opposite direction. My first thought, while identifying these individuals as uber-nerds as if it were a severe birth defect, was that there is likely a very tangible cause for their excitement. I know that Trogdor was in the vicinity a few years ago, so my mind jumped to a convention. Had they been dressed as vampires or Slayers, I would have been certain.

I can't decide which Larry the Cable Guy quote to use: "Lord I apologize" or "I 'on't care who ye are, tha's funny right thare"

Re: You can run but you can't hide

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----- Original Message -----
From: McGinnis, David R.
To: 'michellendavid.blog@blogger.com' <michellendavid.blog@blogger.com>
Sent: Wed Apr 07 07:28:37 2010
Subject: You can run but you can't hide

It's a bad quality picture because I was afraid that the doors would close while I was composing a no-glare angle.

So I took the picture because there's a student that has brought up, multiple times, the Big Brother technique. His quote would be "hey, we noticed" He has this great idea of what to look for and how to align our metrics with the things that the people running the lines ought to care about... But when it comes to implementation suggestions, instead of grabbing a few tools out of the Vision toolbox in order to better communicate our goals (and why), and including this new metric from the Knowledge Process toolbox for something a little more tangible-like that the personnel can keep in their daily focus, he wants to look at the metric as a manager and then run down to the line and say "HEY! We noticed." I think it's just a phase, so I'm not worried. I'll try to help him out of it.

I'm thinkin' this attempt by MARTA to indimidate ne'er-do-wells with a 2D rentacop is hilarious and much like gun control would probably only work on the people we aren't exacty worried about in the first place.

You can run but you can't hide

It's a bad quality picture because I was afraid that the doors would close while I was composing a no-glare angle.

So I took the picture because there's a student that has brought up, multiple times, the Big Brother technique. His quote would be "hey, we noticed" He has this great idea of what to look for and how to align our metrics with the things that the people running the lines ought to care about... But when it comes to implementation suggestions, instead of grabbing a few tools out of the Vision toolbox in order to better communicate our goals (and why), and including this new metric from the Knowledge Process toolbox for something a little more tangible-like that the personnel can keep in their daily focus, he wants to look at the metric as a manager and then run down to the line and say "HEY! We noticed." I think it's just a phase, so I'm not worried. I'll try to help him out of it.

I'm thinkin' this attempt by MARTA to indimidate ne'er-do-wells with a 2D rentacop is hilarious and much like gun control would probably only work on the people we aren't exacty worried about in the first place.

Even the concrete jungle is lovely on a day like today

Some people are just buttholes

This guy wouldn't move his bag for a kid to sit next to his Mom on the train. I went over and said something so the picture is no longer valid, but C'MON, REALLY?

The right to waste

Apparently using water to look cool was not allowed for a couple years. I guess they were afraid it would evaporate and drift away. But I have an appreciation for the psychological value of gigantic landmarks in downtown Atlanta not just sitting there acting BROKEN just because we're afraid to use water during a drought.

I'm glad they finally turned some of them back on. It actually seems more refreshing, welcoming, and for that matter promotes walking around, which I should like to highly encourage as I seem to be responsible for the payment of many of these folk's health care.