I enjoyed this list, simply because it pointed out the obscene overuse of “a perfect storm.”
Although, in my experience it is used to describe any type of significant confluence, not just coincidences. Such as, it’s “a perfect storm” of candidates arriving in Iowa, or something.
I have a gripe with the gripe about “decimate,” which certainly has meaning beyond mathematic use.
Huckabee leading in Iowa is strange, but I’m fine with him leading the way for the GOP. A Huckabee-Obama showdown might be useful to the country. Glad to see Ms. Clinton is having a bit of trouble.
Aside from being controlled by a robotic overlord, Jack FM (103.7, may the prior occupant rest in peace) is about the worst radio station format known to man. Any sense of continuity or artform about the mix of music is the pure illusion of haphazard numbers, a mere random walk across the sonic landscape.
[That last sentence was totally nonsense, but it was coming off too attractively to edit out.]
Anyway, they followed up the Doobie Brothers with Counting Crows this morning, and — while making no musical sense — it did make me think that those were two genre-busting bands with a bunch of members.
Maybe that’s the game when listing to Jack: try to discern two linkages between each subsequent band played. The warning is that you will get a Pink Floyd to Michael Jackson transition.
Across the financial landscape there is a somewhat lengthy moment at which Accounting is going full bore at their duties, and Finance has trailed off to a standstill. This event culminates (into a “perfect storm,” mind you) at the point of Closing, which means — cynically — that all your temporary mistakes have become permanent.
It then becomes Finance’s job to begin reporting, but my specific position really ramps up on the next day (that would probably be Monday for me this month), after which the Data Warehouse updates with the prior month’s (or in this case, year’s) mistakes.
We are at the initial phase of the Moment, right now. Which means Nickel Creek is playing that ferocious back-to-back of “Reasons Why” and “When You Come Back Down,” both of which have likely (if I had not just wiped my iTunes library… on purpose) attained epic play count stats on the Nano.
EZ-E is full bore right now, as evidenced by my calling of him recently with a jovial tone, to be met with a somewhat frenetic deferral to some later point in the evening.
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Have I ever mentioned that I have a chalkboard in my office? Not for long, once we occupy the new cubes outside of the plant, but for now.
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I think we’re reaching the point where Accounting starts communicating by just yelling down the hallway from their desks. That tends to happen late in the day on the 2nd workday.
Gyms are interesting animals, and post-New Year’s is definitely the time to catch people off guard.
There are good deals to be had (I still feel like I got one), but going right now would probably be the worst idea. The salesmen might all be busy shooting fish in barrels.
Either way it’s a lose/lose situation for somebody.
As I dangle this pocketwatch in your face, I want you to sit back, relax, and let the tendrils of the stupidity of that statement permeate your consciousness.
“We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.”
Today is crazy, in a sort of meanderingly stupid way.
I looked up “pompadour” in the dictionary today with unexpected results. I had forgotten that it was “Elvis hair,” so to speak. I was expecting it to virtually match the definition of a fop. I’m sure there’s a word that sounds better than “fop” that is what a “fop” is, but I’m not aware of it immediately at this point.
Haberdasher is another word I’m shocked doesn’t mean “a dandy” (ha! I thought of the word I was referencing in the prior paragraph). Of course, a colorful way of putting it might be “one overly concerned with haberdashery,” which, like a scenic detour, would get you where you wanted to go… slowly, but with some style.
