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8 August 2014: Last to Know

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Apparently I'm the last person in my office to know that our boss interviewed for another, higher-up position in our school, and that interviews for her position will be starting today.

Since I learned this from the daily building events calendar posted in the elevator, I guess that means I've been left out of the workplace news/gossip circle.

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  1. Re: workplace gossip:

    I don't know what I did to earn it besides to be a guy who doesn't appear to care, but I hear everything. I really have no time to hang out with anyone outside work, and yet I'm piped in to a degree that makes no sense to me. I know who's messing around, why everyone's been fired, all that. I end up being the first to hear constantly.

    1. I haven't been able to figure out if I'm out of the loop because I haven't indicated interest or because I haven't been invited into any of the workplace social circles. I'm not unhappy that I'm missing out on gossip, but I'm not crazy about having been socially isolated at work.

      1. In my case I'm perfectly fine missing it (okay, the story of Meghan's firing was pretty entertaining, but otherwise) and my own theory is that I've shown so little interest that people correctly assume I'll keep the secrets.

    3. I'm also in the same position at my job. People tell me the damnedest things that I generally don't want to know. Occasionally there is some tidbit that is almost worth the rest of the dreck, but mostly it's just back biting and butt hurt feelings. I'm in this position because I'm generally nice, communicate well, and don't engage in gossiping about others.

    4. Im always the last to know things. Sometimes, I wish I was in the loop, but those moments are few and far between.

    5. When I worked at WF, I went out of my way to stay out of the loop. So many petty assholes. Ain't nobody got time fo that.

  2. Re: cockroaches:

    Just one this morning, down from two yesterday and five the day before. I'm hoping we've gotten the bulk of the would-be escapees.

    1. Remember, you're only killing the less sneaky ones. Artificially evolving the survivors to hide better.

      1. I suppose spooky could release a brood of scorpions in the house to deal with the roaches. At least then the roaches would be subject to hypermicroevolution from a natural source instead of resistance to chemicals...

          1. Of course they're not. They completely neglected the phase of the plan where you release snakes into the house to get rid of the scorpions.

                1. Exactly!
                  Except for Spooky.

                  Also, make sure they're genuine eels and not hagfish.
                  The slime residue would take forever to clean up.

        2. But then, how do you counteract the inevitable Rise Of The Scorpions? Maybe release some genetically modified spiders into the walls.

          1. Scorpions to kill the roaches. Genetically modified spiders - say, funnel-web spiders? - to kill the scorpions. Snakes to kill the spiders. What to kill the snakes?

            I'm thinking a platoon of ratels.

            1. Just keep working your way up to progressively larger animals until you reach one that a) can't hide in the walls, and thus b) you can kill with a well placed hunting knife/.22

    2. I know Toronto is his hometown but ripping Mpls on weather and taxes when compared to Canada is hilarious.

      1. The weather one is weird. Wikipedia doesn't include daily mean for Minneapolis, but the differences in highs for Dec-Feb in Celsius: 4.8, 3.9, 2.1. Big difference from the 8 C difference listed. The lows have larger differences as expected due to inland vs large lake. But they still are below 8 C: 7.8, 6.9, 5.1.

    1. Sending this one out to the world.

      At that point, the comments coming from the Twins were that he needed to make another start to get to 95-100 pitches.

      Interesting. I wonder if he would have been up earlier, say after the Futures Game, if not for his injury. And even with the injury, earlier than this if he didn't have two consecutive short starts thanks to weather in the second start.

    2. If May fulfills his potential, nobody will care what happens with Vance Worley. i still find it funny what seems like the great anticipation for him being called up considering at the beginning of the season he was considered no better than the Twins' fourth-best pitching prospect behind Meyer, Stewart and Berrios.

      1. I'd say that he's probably still the fourth-best pitching prospect (TINSTAAPP). That said, anticipation for any sort of new arm that doesn't immediately scan as a high contact, "here it is, please hit it at a fielder instead of over the fence" pitcher isn't that outlandish.

        1. I might also put him behind Milone. But it's time to start seeing what we've got in him. I'm in favor of this regardless of how he does.

          1. Milone isn't a prospect (I'd put Milone behind Gibson, for that matter), but he is more accomplished. He should be a league-average pitcher based on what he's done so far, at least, hopefully, through his arb years.

      1. Williamstown, MA. Home of Williams College.

        We have moved on. Surprise detour to Ithaca to see Cornell. I have been stonewalled on my pleas to go to Cooperstown for the Ommegang/HOF tours. Women!

        1. I nearly went to Cornell just because Ithaca was so beautiful. The fact they didn't accept me is of no consequence.

        2. Shared a photo of Bill Raftery's favorite still life on the bookface: Renoir's Onions, at the Clark.

          They have a pretty great collection. Current featured exhibits were bronzeworks from the Shang and ?? Dynasties, and a bunch of contemporary art stuff (Pollack, etc.). I am not a fan of most of the abstract stuff. Much preferred the permanent collection stuff: impressionists, etc. Monet is pretty bitchin', and Renoir...wowzer.

          The mrs is conniving that we do the Frick this weekend or early next week. I am in.

          1. Frick is awesome. Money art.

            If you are in/near H'istan, you are invited to stop by the nations 3'rd unfriendliest city for a tapper at Plan B. with this boyo.

            Or I could fire up Teh Grill - garden aubergines are a plenty right now.

            1. Would love to, but dance card is pretty full. Two bros-in-law, a college buddy (hers), and the Boy, all in the City.

            2. And I'll put in a plug for the Wadsworth Atheneum, Trumbull (think back of $2 bill), plus lots of Surrealismos (Dali, Magritte, Ernst, Miro, Man), two Wyeths, furniture made from the Charter Oak Tree, and a beer mug made by Paul Revere.

              Also, not far from here is New Britain Museum of American Art, which has 3 Wyeths (Andrew and Pa), Hudson River School artists, Sargents, Homer, Cassatt, Bierstadt, and some great Polish restaurants in the immediate area (Fatherland, Starapolksa, Cracovia, East Side). And you could catch a Rock Cats game (before they relocate to H'istan).

          2. I liked Monet before I knew better. Grew to realize he did a lot of shlock. (His waterlilies, on the other hand...Sublime.) Never cared for Renoir. Too pretty by half. The only Impressionists I really like are Degas and Manet--though I've always felt the latter was mislabeled as an Impressionist. Pierre Bonnard is also fabulous, but he's really Post-Impressionist.

            For the record, I bet Raft's a bigger fan of Klimt.

            1. Heh (on the Klimt).

              A bunch of Degas at the Clark too. I will prolly share one or two of those as well. Fotoed a sculpture of Little Dancer, Age Fourteen, and a self-portrait.

                1. Pretty wasn't maybe the most descriptive adjective. How 'bout what old ladies find pretty? 😉

                  One of my favorite painters, Joan Mitchell, flirted with pretty her whole career. It was never safe, though.

                  Also, I'm NOT sorry if that image is too big.

              2. Now that stuff I like. Vaguely reminiscent of some WPA-era stuff.

                My agency happens to have a very VERY large Maynard Dixon mural in our main building. Kewl stuff.

                1. Maynard is one of my all time favorite artists. A friend and I were rooting around a thrift store in 'burque years back and he pulled out a painting that turned out to be a Dixon oil sketch. He paid 10 bucks for it.

        3. If can't go to Mecca, at least pick up some O'gang at your local beer cave: Abbey Ale, Hennepin, Three Philosophers and quiff a quaff.

      1. I'll set one up. Classic mode (as we have been - most points accumulated over the course of the season) or head-to-head (drawn against someone else in the league. 3-1-0 for W-D-L. These points count in the table.)? Unless a vast majority want head-to-head, I'll keep it classic. Or porque no los dos and set up two leagues. Thoughts?

  8. The longest lasting gift Red McCombs ever gave Vikings fans is the phase "Purple Pride"

  9. I just found out my brother was at a Angels-Dodgers game last week and got to see both Puig and Trout play in the same game. Lucky little *&#$*&

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