OTFPOTD: 12/23/08 - Get Out While You Still Can Edition

So much for the feared Scott Boras, eh?

we’re not going anywhere – we were supposed to fly tomorrow, but my wife is so sick of flying and traveling that we decided not to. This looks to have been a smart decision.

…the passes aren’t looking that great. Maybe things will look a little better over New Year’s Eve.

I’ve got the rest of the week off, but I had some web publishing I had to do (and since I don’t have remote access, other than OWA, I have to physically be here to do it). Granted no one else in my work group is likely to show up, and those that here aren’t likely to be productive but hey, I feel like I accomplished SOMETHING….

and it’s packed, of course, because it was the only bus that showed up in 40 min of waiting. There’s a guy sitting right behind the driver, giving the driver an earful of shit because “this bus took forever to show up and there’ve been a bunch of other buses that have run just fine and I don’t know what took you so long”, among other things – like that’s the driver’s fault. I hate people.

But there is supposed to be big snow storm that afternoon so I might be delayed.

Arsenal will be lucky to finish sixth, never mind top four.

Yay, I guess.

I have a plane to catch tomorrow at 4pm.
What do I do?

10 million of approximately 13 million music tracks online failed to find a single buyer in 2007. 80% of online music revenue came from approximately 52,000 songs. I don’t know what this means as far as music sales go, but it’s a pretty interesting test case for the Long Tail.

whee

and turn it up really loud to chase the customers away? I’m tired of people and I really want a smoke break. This is a serious question.

It’s time for the annual King William’s College quiz. This quiz is diabolical; the average score on first taking (it’s sat both before and after Christmas break – it’s optional for KWC students now, but was once required) was somewhere on the order of four or five correct answers.

Have fun.

scientific calculations to the utmost degree, Halos Heaven is “worth” 4 times as much as USSMARINER. LL doesn’t even make their list, and neither does AN.

If LL ever needs people to serve in this capacity, I’d like to suggest they be referred to as “Girl Next Door Types.”

An excellent prank in Nottingham

Apparently some of those mean old Seahawks fans threw some snowballs at the big bad Jets as they were leaving the field Sunday – and a Jet retaliated, saying “it was all in fun”, which I believe. When asked for a comment, the Jets’ coach said:

“Coach Eric Mangini thought his team was put in a dangerous predicament as it walked off the field, saying several people were pelted with snowballs. "That situation in the stadium in general was not a very safe situation for anybody involved,” Mangini said.

A dangerous predicament? Not a very safe situation? THEY WERE SNOWBALLS, YOU MORON. YOUR PLAYERS WERE WEARING HELMETS, PADS, AND ALL SORTS OF OTHER PROTECTIVE GEAR. If they can’t handle a few widdle snowballs, how the hell are they supposed to succeed in the NFL?

We need another snowpocalypse to pick things up.

I am hoping for a Wii Fit.