My ex-wife used to bake for my coworkers fairly often. When she did I'd write up a fairly standard email with funny disclaimers in very tiny font as seen here and hereRecently I had reason to clear out what little personal email I had saved at work, and found several more disclaimers. I present the best of them here with annotations ( Read more... )

On Monday my company had its annual meeting. Back at my first annual meeting in 2003, all 170 or so of us fit into a banquet room at the Holiday Inn down the block from our office. Here in 2014, the 1200 employees in the campus I work on all went downtown to the CSU Convocation Center (aka the Wolstein Center). Another 500 or so watching remotely ( Read more... )

I have never been to Hawaii. I'd certainly like to go. There are all sorts of mountains and pretty scenery and beaches and all that kind of thing, but alas this doesn't make it more likely that I'll be there any time soon ( Read more... )

Signs point to yes. I'll provide some evidence, but first, here's my favorite vaguely music related joke of 2010, courtesy of my sister, the always entertaining tigerlily_blueQ: How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb ( Read more... )

xhollydayx made more cupcakes, and my coworkers were the beneficiaries. Here's the email they got informing them of it ( Read more... )

xhollydayx made brownies and sent them to work with me on Wednesday. Here's the email I sent out ( Read more... )

My job has an internal web page so people can buy and sell things to coworkers. I've had pretty good luck with it in the past, as I've unloaded my extra microwave, xhollydayx's extra crock pot and assorted model planes scant minutes after I posted the ad. I've also picked up coworker's extra concert tickets, baseball tickets and assorted other paraphernalia ( Read more... )

My friend Eric subscribes to Kristin Hersh's mailing list, and forwarded me this excerpt from one of her mailings that I found amusing ( Read more... )

A very long but quite awesome political ad utilizing a sequence from one of my favorite comics, courtesy of the lovely KF, who just turned 7 on Leap Day. I should buy her a coloring book or something.

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My friend/coworker/DM Rob (who should really start posting more) and I are both on the mailing list for the promotional emails for a certain ( Read more... )

Everything you ever needed to know about the mortgage crisis at a glance. Courtesy of my sister, the lovely tigerlily_blue.