Some of my fondest memories of Christmas involve tradition. Traditions like roundhouse kicks and barstools being broken on faces. In that vein, I’d like to offer the following Christmas memory from my teenage years:
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Conversation of the year today, in about 4 lines.
Alan, my director of operations comes by my cube.
“Hey Matt, did you hear Jane’s announcement about everyone going home at 2pm once the party’s over?”
“No, I didn’t.”
“Good. Doesn’t apply to you.”
“Oh.”
From today’s Truth and Rumors at SI.com:
The Tigers are satisfied they won’t see a recurrence of the right wrist and forearm inflammation that sidelined Joel Zumaya for three games of the ALCS. Why? Club president and general manager Dave Dombrowski told WXYT-AM the team had concluded Zumaya’s injury resulted from playing a video game. Zumaya was known to play “Guitar Hero,” a PlayStation 2 game.
– Detroit Free Press
Oh my GOD is that tremendous. Forget that awful overthrow to Inge at 3rd, dude finished Hangar 18 and did the encore straight into Freebird! YEAH! THROW UP THE HORNS AND THROW AWAY THE CHAMPIONSHIP!
As found on Google Maps, a Target store in College Point, Queens, NY.
Is this really the message we want to send to the terrorists? Come on, people!
This is a post I saved from my other, now-defunct blog. So much for that.
The United States has a surprising number of battleships still floating around as museum pieces or in storage. Given the crazy fun you can have with Google Maps, I thought I’d see what I can find. I think I found them all! It’s like Where’s Waldo of the Washington Treaty!
Awesome.
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