"Three days hardly seems enough time to reconfigure a national network."
But four days is plenty of time, however. Noooooo problem. Piece of cake! You know our motto here in the IT department, if it can't be done in four........ (sigh)
Just have everyone use 20% less words in their documents, that works too, i.e.:
MEMORANDUM
Date: July 1, 200
To: Harold Sr.
: Isabel
Subject: for Payroll Advances
There is new procedure (to reflect) for obtaining payroll advances. I believe will find it improvement over the old, confusing. The new is as:
1. Obtain special Form number, Request for, from your.
2. Complete the form in all the blanks in the section of the.
3. Have your immediate approve your request by signing on the Supervisor.
4. Take the approved Form the receptionist in the Payroll and, Building Z, Room.
"Predictions and speculation are cool, but humans do not appear to be very good at fulfilling them in general. Talk to an economist about that."
Unless they are motivated by a youthful and idealistic, then suddenly assassinated, first term President. Unless their homeland is attacked without warning as a precursor to global war. Unless the economy gets in such a crunch and job losses become too surrealistic to bear for this generation, much less future ones.
Properly motivated, we move our asses.
Disclaimer: Hey, I didn't say we always move in the right direction, but rectus movicus we do-icus.
So I looked up "Porn Addict" on WebMD, you know - to do research for a paper I'm writing - and got to a page there which included a brief Flash video of me behind my keyboard, typing in "Porn Addict" on WebMD. Jesus, this technology is AMAZING.
Sliding screens? Yawn.
I'll be impressed when they integrate a 3D hologram to project content on a PDA like that. If CNN can do it, as they demonstrated in interviews during election coverage, and Princess Leia can do it while on the run and struggling against the Empire... I mean what's the holdup?
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"Three days hardly seems enough time to reconfigure a national network."
But four days is plenty of time, however. Noooooo problem. Piece of cake! You know our motto here in the IT department, if it can't be done in four........ (sigh)
Just have everyone use 20% less words in their documents, that works too, i.e.:
MEMORANDUM
Date: July 1, 200
To: Harold Sr.
: Isabel
Subject: for Payroll Advances
There is new procedure (to reflect) for obtaining payroll advances. I believe will find it improvement over the old, confusing. The new is as:
1. Obtain special Form number, Request for, from your.
2. Complete the form in all the blanks in the section of the.
3. Have your immediate approve your request by signing on the Supervisor.
4. Take the approved Form the receptionist in the Payroll and, Building Z, Room.
Thank,
Hmmm... on second thought... um, maybe not.
"Predictions and speculation are cool, but humans do not appear to be very good at fulfilling them in general. Talk to an economist about that."
Unless they are motivated by a youthful and idealistic, then suddenly assassinated, first term President. Unless their homeland is attacked without warning as a precursor to global war. Unless the economy gets in such a crunch and job losses become too surrealistic to bear for this generation, much less future ones.
Properly motivated, we move our asses.
Disclaimer: Hey, I didn't say we always move in the right direction, but rectus movicus we do-icus.
So I looked up "Porn Addict" on WebMD, you know - to do research for a paper I'm writing - and got to a page there which included a brief Flash video of me behind my keyboard, typing in "Porn Addict" on WebMD. Jesus, this technology is AMAZING.
Sliding screens? Yawn. I'll be impressed when they integrate a 3D hologram to project content on a PDA like that. If CNN can do it, as they demonstrated in interviews during election coverage, and Princess Leia can do it while on the run and struggling against the Empire... I mean what's the holdup?