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I received the latest issue (January 19, 2004) of Time magazine today. In the Verbatim they had an interesting quote.

“I believe the reason I smoke and drink and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years.”
—Timothy Dumouchel, who threatened to sue a cable company for providing free cable for four years after he asked that it be canceled.

I shared that with the people at work. Especially since the chief programmer has been receiving free cable from Shaw for quite some time. So he determined that “I should sue shaw.” It quickly became apparent that he had just created a fairly good tongue-twister.
He went on to conclude that they probably picked the name deliberately. “What’s the hardest word to sue?”
Continuing on that idea… “You go to the lawyer and say ‘I want to shoe Shaw.’ By the time the lawyer figures out what you want to do, you’re out of money.”
I keep telling the chief programmer that he needs a radio show, or at least to take his rants on the road.
At work they’re looking at moving us out of out current building. Apparently the server room doesn’t have enough cooling and is starting to melt the servers. So I may actually have an honest to god commute I’ll have to deal with. We still might stay in our current facilities because they are cheap compared to other rates in the neighborhood. But we need to find a way to cool that server room.
The temperature is still warm here. It’s warm enough that yesterday, when I went running, I did it in shorts. Of course there is still lots of snow and ice on the ground, and I was the only one in the Running Room store who was in shorts. So I was mocked. But as usual, halfway through the run other people were saying they wished they had chosen shorts too. I know it’s petty, but I feel really good after having mocked choices justified.