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Researchers in New Zealand are reporting that one joint has air flow obstruction equivalent to five cigarettes. The research cites the methods in which marijuana smoke is inhaled versus the filtered methods for inhaling cigarette smoke as well as how long the inhalation is held as factors contributing to the differences in marijuana smoke and cigarette smoke. One nug that I found interesting about the article is in the middle of the following statement,
To qualify as a long-term marijuana user, participants had to have smoked a minimum of one joint a day for five years, said institute director Richard Beasley, who also participated in the study. Tobacco users had to have smoked a pack a day for one year.
It doesn’t mention in which category Mr. Beasly participated, but if I were doing the research it would probably be fun to be in the “long-term user” category. It struck me as humorous that what seems a pretty serious and professional study was directed by a study participant. I wonder if they got grant money to grow giant greenhouses of dope so they could smoke it for five years?
I guess that’s one way to beat the system.
It’s a dog-eat-dog world. It’s a jungle out there. It’s now what you know, it’s who you know. It’s not who you know, it’s who you blow. All of these clichés are valid if you work in a cubicle farm. If your cubicle farm exists in a giant corporation with lots of subsidiaries, then these clichés ring truer than any sane person would ever want. If your giant corporation rewards profit generation over actual ethical and valid work performed, well, that is another post entirely.
This post is about cubicle ninjas.
I am a cubicle ninja. I didn’t used to be a cubicle ninja. Previously to honing my powers of observation and my stealth techniques, I was merely a white collar professional who rolled with the punches. One day, there was a punch I realized I could not roll with.
A person whose attention to detail includes how people arranged things on their desks relocated to our building. My desk is and has been organized and clutter-free, but other co-workers have gained the ire of this member of the management team due to their messy desks. Other negative comments and actions have been directed around to my peers from this member of the management team, and I have tried my best to avoid this individual at all costs. There was one problem:
My avenue of escape from the Cubicle Farm went right past this leader’s cubicle doorway – my cubicle hallway actually ended right at his doorway. I had a single angle of sightline blockage I could use to my advantage, but it would take all my skills of stealth to make sure I passed by soundlessly and invisibly.
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Poor Marcus Burghardt, good thing it wasn’t a German shepard in the French countryside. No telling who would have been fingered as the collaborateur. J’accuse!
Oh, and carbon-fiber wheels may be light, but they ain’t shit against a yellow lab!
Shinders is done. They had a good run for eighty-seven years but it only took one drugged-out fiend three years to run the company into the ground and destroy it. I am not a business expert, but I would hope I could figure out a way to stop spending $100,000 per month if my business was tanking.
Maybe tell your vendors to stop sending you stuff?
We are in some very difficult times for printed newsstands and book sellers but it is possible to remain in business. Barnes & Noble is figuring it out. As is Border’s. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of those companies purchases the name Shinders. Well, that could be wistful thinking on my part.
I bought a lot of my comics at Shinders. Some porn. All of my Fantasy Football needs were met by Shinders. A ton of my D&D dorkiness was fulfilled by Shinders.
It is a drag to see them go. Especially in such a humiliating way. When history is written about this era of time, there will be a lot of examples of once-proud businesses that fail unexpectedly due to mis-management at the very top levels.
I hope Robert Weisberg gets disbarred and goes to jail. He’s only got a $500 donation listed over at fecinfo.com, so there is a chance he may actually go to jail. Of course, that doesn’t include the bags of cash or the hookers and blow he sends out to political candidates - so there is still a good chance he won’t do time.
I just got a link to this story from a friend and it seemed like perfect 8 and 5 material:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6295138.stm
and to accompany it, you must view http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
It’s only a matter of time before someone builds a Badger, Badger, Badger, and substitutes the Mushroom for Muslim or Mukhtar or something. I’d do it if I wasn’t somewhat busy at work today.
After all he didn’t even commit a crime, everyone knows that Valarie Plame wasn’t even covert…
Oh she was?
Well everyone knows that Scooter didn’t blow her cover… what’s that?
Oh, that isn’t why he was going to jail?
It was perjury?
Oh, Right, I forgot that…
Well, that doesn’t matter because he wasn’t guilty of perjury because he shouldn’t have been on the stand in the first place, since everyone knows that it was Joe Wilson that outed Plame…
What now?
I’m pretty sure it was Joe… that’s what Rush said.
Well, even if it wasn’t him then it was probably Richard Armitage so Scooter should go FREE!
Uh-huh…
You’re saying that none of that matters if he lied to the grand jury.
Umm…
Well, no I don’t know why he would have lied if there was no cover-up. But that doesn’t matter because I’m sure that with any other non-biased special-prosecutor the charges wouldn’t have been brought against him, he’s obviously completely innocent. This was totally political.
Oh…
That’s right… Bush did say he was guilty in his statement but his sentence was way to harsh. So yeah, I mean he did lie a little bit under oath but the sentence was OUT OF CONTROL so Bush let him out.
No, I don’t know why he didn’t just shorten the sentence then…
Well, Clinton totally pardoned people that were really criminals so this is totally OK.
Of course I was really pissed about that then, especially Frank Rich.
YES TWO WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT! CLINTON DID IT FIRST.
I’M TELLING MY MOM!
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