Techie Manager

This story is most excellent.

The new Yankee Stadium may be cursed!

A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team’s locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction workers told The Post yesterday.

“In August, a Red Sox T-shirt was poured in a slab in the visitor’s clubhouse. It’s the curse of the Yankees,” one worker said. “Nobody knows about it. It’s in the floors, it’s buried.”

The workers say they now fear that they unwittingly helped hex their beloved Bronx Bombers.

“I don’t want to be responsible for sinking the franchise,” said a second worker, who witnessed the sabotage. “I respect the stadium.”

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Jesse Ventura on Hannity and Colmes - 2008/04/08

I don’t agree with the 9/11 conspiracy stuff, but he’s on target with the rest.

(Damn, Hannity is an ass…)

Little did I know that back in 1975, Eric Idle of Monty Python had a television show called Rutland Weekend Television, a sketch show about “Britain’s smallest television network”. It was the inspiration for the brilliant Beatles spoof All You Need is Cash, featuring Eric Idle and Neil Innes (as well as John Halsey and Ricky Fataar) as the “pre-fab four”.

Here’s a fantastic video from the show featuring George Harrison of the Beatles performing “The Pirate Song”, which sounds very similar to another Harrison song…

More video clips here.

More at /film

c/o Haikuvies:

Peter hates his job
day after meaningless day
in a cubicle

Missing cover sheets
on your TPS reports
did you get memo?

Evil printer drives
Michael Bolton to madness
PC Load Letter

Hypnotherapist
dies, leaving Peter sanguine
skipping work to fish

Lumbergh and the Bobs
bring layoffs and misery
white collars, dark times

Pissed-off IT guys
hatch plot to rob Initech
(see: Superman III)

Red stapler is gone
Milton carries out his threat
orange flames lick the sky

Previously…

Interesting interview with P.J. O’Rourke on Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.

Finally…oh, yeah - NOW I’m getting one.

From TheStreet.com via Yahoo!:

On March 6, Apple is holding an event for analysts and the media to formally announce plans for its highly anticipated iPhone and iPod Touch software developers’ kit (SDK) that would allow third-party applications to run on the device. Those applications, which in my mind more resemble the weather, stocks and maps widgets currently on the device, would bring a lot more functionality, and that is saying something, given how easy and useful the iPhone currently is.

In addition to outlining the procedures developers will need to follow in order to author and distribute their own applications through iTunes, Apple’s invite suggests that the company will reveal some enterprise-geared features for the device.

As widely reported on the web over the last few months and had been evident by job postings over at Apple, the company has formed a team whose primary objective is to test future Exchange and Outlook functionality with the touch-screen handset.

An excellent editorial by Carl Hiaasen in the February 17th Miami Herald.

Florida’s plucky refusal to embrace 21st century education is one reason that prestigious tech industries have avoided the state, allowing so many of our high-school graduates (and those who come close) to launch prosperous careers in the fast-food, bartending and service sectors of the economy.

By accepting evolution as a proven science, our top educators would be sending a loud message to the rest of the nation: Stop making fun of us.

Is that what we really want?

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