Movie Phone.

I had a telephone interview today, administered by HR, touching on topics related to being employed now 90-days. It was a nice conversation with someone from San Francisco and she asked all of the nice questions that made sense to ask. It's all designed to improve recruitment strategies and plans for new-hires. Yadda yadda.

The interesting portion of this is that when we were done and she hung up... I heard a dial tone. Did you hear me? I heard a dial tone.

It was like I was in a movie. I expected cars to crash and explode outside the nearest window. I thought my buddy Blaise was going to power-roll up to the table outside my cube and yell "Get down! Get down!" before he opened fire over my head, taking out evil enemies smashing in through our front window. It seemed like at any moment I would join the action by kicking down the one wall of my cube, grabbing an automatic weapon from underneath my desk, and unloading into several evil would-be assailants storming through the door. I half expected the halon system to fire on and the Terminator to thrust an oxygen mask and tank into my chest and say "put this on" before we rushed out of here and away from the destruction.

I have a movie phone. That is all.

Football rage

The chronicles of an Eagles fan during this past weekend's torturous loss to the Giants are laid out in the aptly titled "Chronicles of Philadelphia Eagles fan on bad day." I urge you to give it a read. It should make you laugh.

If not the whole of the article, most certainly references to Eli Manning as a "skinny wiener" will make you laugh.

Watery Fowls

From an article of Reuters: "Fawlty Towers relaunched - without mad manager"

The hotel that inspired the cult British television comedy series Fawlty Towers is relaunching after a makeover -- but guests will be spared rants by the rudest hotelier of all time.

John Cleese was prompted to write the classic 1970s series with his then wife Connie Booth after staying with the cast of Monty Python's Flying Circus at the Gleneagles Hotel in the western English resort of Torquay.

Cleese called hotelier Donald Sinclair "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met" after they were berated for their table manners and had a timetable thrown at them when they asked the time of the next bus to town.

The article has a few tid bits about the new ownership of the hotel. It would certainly make an excellent tourist destination. Read the whole of it.

"The Coolest Thing I Do All Day"

I had to try to be on YouTube. This video from back in May.

Programmer's Day

We just missed it, this September 13th.

Programmer's day is a whimsical "holiday" on the 256th day of the year celebrated mostly by computer programmers (reason: 256 = 2 to the power of 8 = the number of values representable in a byte of data). Traditions include drinking, behaving silly, coding silly programs, mini computer games, playing with old computers, etc. Programmer's day usually falls on September 13th; on leap years, it is September 12th.

More proof to the fact that there is a holiday for everything and everyone.