Archive for January 25th, 2007
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
My friend was recently finishing up a major e-commerce site release, and he told me “I can’t talk. I’m totally crammed at work right now.” I only think of two things when I hear crammed, studying and something regarding a fist.
I hadn’t heard this crammed at work before. When I’m busy at work, I’m slammed or crushed or squeezed.
What do you say when you’re slammed? We’ll leave Smithers and anyone at QBP out of this, for obvious reasons. But Mrs. Smithers works for a living, maybe she has a good one?
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
I was working on a web project a few years back and needed some product shots. It was early in the project and I didn’t know what the specific items were yet, but I knew they were coming from the specialty pharmacy. I thought maybe clotting factor or anti-rejection meds would be sent.
I get back from lunch and three small bottles (large vials?) of erythropoietin are sitting on my desk. I call my pharmacy contact to verify that, as usual, they’ve formally dispensed the inventory as marketing samples (and don’t want them back). I call the photog to verify the work and schedule a courier to pick up the bottles, along with a few other items. This photographer always returns samples unless otherwise instructed.
This is a couple years after the Festina affair, April to be exact. So everyone at work knows pro cyclists are dopers, but they’re clueless about EPO. And I’m about to have the best season of my racing life. Which isn’t saying much, but…
The contest is: What did I do with the EPO? Best story gets a new Ritchey road tire, or a bottle of Urthel. Accuracy won’t necessarily win this, we could all use a good laugh.
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Guess where I am right now.
Originally uploaded by smithersmpls.
I’ll just tell you. It’s the Cofidis 2007 team presentation.
(sent wireless via Treo 650)
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Score
Originally uploaded by smithersmpls.
The not often seen but always valued empty row seat on the 8.5 hour flight.
(sent wireless via Treo 650)
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
My flight is delayed and I am bored.
Standing in the security line in Minneapolis I overheard a woman state that the last time she went through security at an airport she was “strip searched.” This naturally caused me to give her the once over. Strip searched? How grusome it must have been, for the TSA agents.
Hanging around in an airport bookshop I read in the latest Esquire magazine that 65% of men will sacrifice sleep for sex. For women the numbers are reversed. Why are women so sleepy?
Which is the better dinner: A Salted Nut Roll and a Coke or a two Salted Nut Rolls and a Coke?
(sent wireless via Treo 650)
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