Well, it seems that I am on my way to this. Do not pretend that to have a ‘world’ fame yet, but yesterday’s case definitely was a right step on that direction. At a corporate holiday party my wife and I were dragged on stage by band when they were playing Bee Gees’ ‘Stay Alive’.
And for next 10 minutes we danced mix of Salsa, Hustle, Cha in front of roaring crowd of several hundred well educated/paid white collars.
Damn it felt good.
Singapore Airlines website reservation system does not know that country ‘Georgia’ exists. Here is the proof:
But they do know that Armenia and Azerbaijan does exist…
And when I was speaking with their reservation agent (an Indian guy of course) over the prone I had to assure that such country does exist, no, it is not US State I am talking about and finally asked him to go and look at google maps.
Well, they did update my passport information, however on my request when the country which passport I have will appear in the list I got an answer that management must confirm my claims.
Nice…
Welcome to WordPress.com.
and yada, yada, yada…
Anyway, I’m moving to WP from LJ for the various reasons. One of them is that I hope that I will have a new beginning soon. If that happens details will for sure follow.
My previous LJ journal will stay for some time but I intend to delete it eventually. When – no idea.
Got an email with the fascinating subject line today:
The best part is word back. Seems my cover has blown.
Damn.
Last month I spent more on Starbucks than on groceries… go figure.
P.S. Starbucks expenses were $23.32 and groceries – $20.79
The Cole’s Axiom from the Murphy’s Laws states the following:
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
An Axiom is defined as ‘a proposition that is not proved or demonstrated but considered to be self-evident‘ thus does not require any proof. And yes, the consequences of Cole’s Axiom are self evident, both globally and locally.
Consider a global example first: MTBE. First it was required to be added to gas for faster burning and lead to introduction of a new gas tax. However, several years later it was discovered that MTBE contaminated groundwater and soil and requires its removal. Which obviously required introduction of another gas tax. Needless to say that that the first gas tax stayed in effect.
A smaller, but still considerable example I personally witnessed last week and I’ve already written about this in past. In the second example, one quite a large company decided to ‘be green’: eliminated all paper cups from its cafeteria and replaced them by reusable ugly plastic cups. Well, after several month of operation it was discovered that:
a) despite requests to bring used cups back they continued to disappear in large quantities. Because:
b) despite warnings and notes that cups are not disposable number of them ended up in trash. And
c) because they are made from non-destructible plastic they (surprise!) will not disintegrate and will poison the environment. Which
d) caused the company be fined by landfill management.
Last, it was discovered that washing these new cups over period of several month generated more expenses in utility bills then it would cost entire year of supply of paper cups.
So, last Friday entire population of ugly plastic cups have disappeared (еo the joy of everyone who had unfortunate luck to drink coffee from them) and paper cups appeared back in cafeteria.
But that had not happened before cafeteria management managed to place an order for 1200 plastic cups to replace disappearing ones….
Hey, do you wanna have 2000 plastic cups?
On the stretch of US-101 from Sunnyvale to San Francisco’s last exit I’ve counted no less then seven billboards with word ‘cloud‘ in it. Surprisingly, on the way back there are only three cloud billboards.
P.S. In addition to that there are four billboards with itunes/Beatles, three car billboards, three with wireless providers/cell phones, two banks, two computer/electronics manufacturers, two beer and one each airline and insurance companies.
This is a striking difference from the scenery I’ve seen in Vegas where alongside of I-15 I’ve counted five billboards offering lawyers/traffic school/bail bond bond services and in Houston where there are plenty of advertisements offering to sell your home in less then six month or promising to keep your home from foreclosure. Apparently they target the same recipients of such services because they are next to each other on billboards in most cases….
Well, the place where one lives defines mentality…One more proof of it….
