during this morning’s commute i heard a story on NPR’s Morning Edition about a former pirate hot spot. at the top of the piece they said the name, Malacca; for the remainder of the drive all i could think about was this:
Dino: Pretty lady, what’s a beautiful broad like you…doing with a malaca like this?
Lisa: It’s purely sexual.
Dino: No shit.
Gary: She’s into malacas, Dino.
god bless Weird Science.
today one of the lead architects was talking about a conflict he was having with the VP of architecture and that it was going to end up crushing the trust that has to exist between employee and boss. to which i replied, “what, i thought we were in the Trust Tree.”
i then had to remind him of the Trust Tree reference:
Therapist: Frank, this is a safe place. A place where we can feel free sharing our feelings. Think of my office as a nest in a tree of trust and understanding. We can say anything here.
Frank: Anything? Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you get married, and you’re supposed to be this entirely different guy. I don’t feel different. I mean, take yesterday for example. We were out at the Olive Garden for dinner, which was lovely. And uh, I happen to look over at a certain point during the meal and see a waitress taking an order, and I found myself wondering what color her underpants might be. Her panties. Uh, odds are they are probably basic white, cotton, underpants. But I sort of think well maybe they’re silk panties, maybe it’s a thong. Maybe it’s something really cool that I don’t even know about. You know, and uh, and I started feeling… what? what I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not?
in today’s stand-up meeting, someone mentioned a problem and i suggested the easiest solution was to “fix the glitch”.
i was then astonished that some team members didn’t get the reference!
Bob Slydell: Milton Waddams.
Dom Portwood: Who’s he?
Bob Porter: You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
Dom Portwood: Oh, yeah.
Bob Slydell: Yeah, we can’t actually find a record of him being a current employee here.
Bob Porter: I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.
Bob Slydell: So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh: Great.
Dom Portwood: So, uh, Milton has been let go?
Bob Slydell: Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won’t be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it’ll just work itself out naturally.
Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem is solved from your end.
- The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Communion [i have to be honest, i have listened to this almost exclusively all week. me likey a lot!]
- Dark Was The Night – Red Hot Compilation [Spoon, Bon Iver, Yo La Tengo, Feist, Kevin Drew, + many, many more!]
- John Coltrane – Lush Life (remastered)
- Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
- MGMT – Oracular Spectacular [yeah, i am late to the party...what's new.]
- Ume – Sunshower EP [via a heads up from Houston Calling’s SXSW preview list)
- Pineapple Express – proving that going to the well one to many times results in poop (i am saying it sucked ass)
- Breaking Bad, Season One – far better than i expected, too bad i deleted this from my TiVo and had to buy the DVD set
- Bull Durham – Spring baseball ritual; never gets old
- RocknRolla – surprising good; i actually watched it twice
- Changeling – the true story seems much more interesting
- Max Payne – did their best to make a great video game into a movie
- Purple Rain – warming up for The Purple One’s upcoming release
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