Archive for July 20th, 2004

To err is human, to forgive is not our policy.

When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.

You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.

The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the

other 90% of the time.

People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn’t.

If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.

At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.

If you can’t get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights. A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.

Don’t be irreplaceable, if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.

It doesn’t matter what you do, it only matters what you say you’ve done and what you’re going to do.

After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month

than you did before.

The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.

Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn

fool about it.

There will always be beer cans rolling on the floor of your car when the

boss asks for a ride home from the office.

Keep your boss’s boss off your boss’s back.

Everything can be filed under “miscellaneous.”

Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he/she is supposed to be doing.

Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.

If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.

You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.

When you don’t know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

Following the rules will not get the job done.

Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules.

When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, “How would the Lone Ranger handle this?”

No matter how much you do, you never do enough.

So the floodgates for outstanding orders and stuff broke yesterday. I had a stack of packages waiting on the doorstep and one arrived here at work yesterday too.

My warranty replacement Viper 550 ESP showed up yesterday, though it’s lacking one of the crucial parts needed before I can get it reinstalled — the shock sensor. So I called first thing this morning to get the sensor sent out. Maybe I can get it installed this weekend if the sensor arrives quick enough this week.. hoping it shows up Thursday or Friday. The model they sent is the same, but I think it’s a different revision, as the remotes are different. (I liked mine better. They were smaller.).

The new Van Halen CD and VH special edition t-shirt showed up yesterday, so that was cool.

The Airport Express with AirTunes also showed up.

Oh, and my reprogrammed universal remote showed up too. Very cool!

Now here’s someone who’s serious about the NFL and getting the most out of their NFL Sunday Ticket subscription:

Serious About Sunday Ticket

This was on the front page of the Durham Herald Sun this morning. It seems Duke is in a pilot program to give all freshman a 20GB iPod, along with their laptops. Too cool!

Duke to Give Incoming Freshmen iPods