Year: 2005
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California State Employee Handbook
by Arnold SchwarzeneggerSICK DAYSVe vill no longer accept a doktor’s shtatement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doktor, you are able to come to verk.PERSONAL DAYSEach employee vill receive 104 personal days a year. Dey are called Saturday and Sunday.LUNCH BREAKSkinny people get 30 minutes for lunch as they…
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This may be therapeutic
Ever have one of those days? My friend Tommy sent me this link to Whack Your Boss, where Office Space meets the Sopranos.Yea; we’re going to need you to come in this weekend. OK?No damnit, I have a life away from this place! You need to get a life!
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Trailblazing
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo EmersonUnless you are camping, where this advice is the worst possible; and most environmentally destructive. Instead, try: Leave your camp site cleaner than you found it, and leave no trace of your presence.
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Filmpjes
Lejo theater: click “filmpjes” and have a ball. OK, if you must, click GB for English. (Thanks to Lee Humphreys.)Comparing skylines around the world.Bizarre kid-friendly fun (thanks to KP for the reminder)Another oldie but goodie (note, it’s sort of dark humor) “Transparent” computer backgroundsHow do you spell a raspberry?If you’ve been watching my numerous “numa…
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Strength
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard Byrd
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Hello, my name is Jeem
Over the weekend, I took in the BBC’s “The Kumars At No. 42”–a hilarious sitcom/talk-show hybrid featuring an extended Indian family that has immigrated to London. To help pay the bills, these fictional Kumars, incongruously, host a chat show from a television studio they’ve bolted onto their modest home in Wembley. Real guest stars appear…