In a nutshell, I'd suffocate.

Commando

Posted on December 20, 2005
As I've mentioned before I'm a proud, yet sometimes frustrated (see outages) VC2 account holder with TextDrive. Proud because of the company’s focus on open source projects, their flexibility, and overall transparency in the way they operate. To understand the full extent of TextDrive's (now a Joyent Company) transparency and free flowing casual conversation with it's customers one must spend time reading the forums, and in doing so you might run into little gems like this part of a reply from TextDrive and Joyent President Dean Allen regarding an upcoming specs sheet for VC members.
“In addition, all VCs will be required to:
* "go commando" one day a month to their place of employ (or desk if they're SOHO)
* learn the opening passage to Stairway to Heaven on ukulele
* eat more bacon
That is all.”
Mmmm... artery blockage, and for the musically declined here's the ukulele tabs for Stairway.
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Breaking Non-News Alert #4

Posted on December 14, 2005
From: BBC Breaking News Alert
Subject: Bush: Iraq intelligence 'wrong'

President Bush says much of the intelligence used to justify the Iraq war was wrong, but says the decision to oust Saddam Hussein was right.

Maybe it's just me, but if a friend, family member or possibly co-worker started a war costing tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars wholly based on faked, stretched, spun, faulty just plain fucked intelligence they would be, at the very least, out of my books as far as having good sound judgement. And from that point on they've kind of lost that ability to make judgement calls regarding basically anything ever again.
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Quotes used in subtle email reminders sent to me by my company’s time tracking software

Posted on December 07, 2005
"The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything." Lee Iacocca

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." Pericles

"In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time." Owen Felltham

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit." Unknown

"You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment." James Gleick

"Time is the measure of business." Francis Bacon

"The years teach much which the days never know." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How did it get so late so soon?" Dr. Seuss

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day." William Shakespeare

"Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible." Salman Rushdie

"The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time." Leo Kennedy

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man." C. C. Colton

"Time: that which man is always trying to kill, ends in killing him." Herbert Spencer

"Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side." The Talmud

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." Henry Van Dyke
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A disclaimer

Posted on December 02, 2005
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