( 1:04 PM )
Baseball Confession
I have a confession to make. I’m rooting for a Red Sox-Cubs World Series.
I know, I know… “But you’re a Yankee fan!”
The truth is I’m a Baseball fan first, then a Yankee fan. As much as I like watching the Yankees win the division every year, it's becoming boring and predictable. I’m probably the only Yankee fan that thought the 2001 World Series was the greatest World Series ever. Even though the Yankees lost to the Diamondbacks, I was practically in tears of joy at the pure suspense, the pure uncertainty, the pure excitement of every pitch. And up until the very last pitch from Mariano Rivera to Juan Gonzalez – where if he hit it the Diamondbacks would win, or if he missed it the Yankees would win – I didn’t care, because it was such an amazing game, an amazing series.
This year, the real possibility of the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs meeting in the World Series, boggles the mind of every pure baseball fan. Two teams with such great tradition and long histories of near-misses, not to mention those pesky curses, deserve to get their shot. If it happens, it could very well be the most watched, and greatest sporting event in history.
Red Sox in seven.
( 8:58 AM )
Ebay
Okay, now I've seen everything. I know you can sell just about anything on Ebay, but this is just ridiculous:
http://www.goateestyle.com/log/img/03-09/ebaygoat/index.html
Please note the final sale price of $33 for this item!
( 2:43 PM )
Leveraging the Bandwidth
I work in a corporate consulting environment that is very business technology oriented. In this environment there is a subtle slaughter of the English language – giving rise to a type of consultant jargon that, personally, I can’t listen to without laughing in the face of the person talking to me.
Consultant: “See if you can leverage the bandwidth to migrate the information to the knowledge repository.”
Translation: “See if you can find the time to update the website.”
Consultant: “Ping me when it’s done so we can touch base.”
Translation: “Call me when it’s done so we can talk.”
The problem has gotten so out-of-hand, there is actual software to help decipher this jargon. Deloitte Consulting has developed a software called Bullfighter to help clean up consultant jargon. It works in association with Microsoft Word and works like a spellchecker.
http://www.dc.com/insights/bullfighter/index.asp
( 9:10 AM )
September 11, 2001... I just remembered why we're at war.
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