first, read this. (then come back.)

if you’re not a details sort of person, the story is this: at the end of last season, the kansas city royals swept the detroit tigers, thereby allowing the twins to take the central division championship. torii hunter, forever the joker, sent the royals four bottles of dom perignon (not to be confused with dom quixote– more on that later) to toast that team for their work. hunter’s good-natured joke ran afoul of some baseball rule, and the royals had to return the bubbly to hunter.

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Our hero, as part of his daily routine (see graph below), ships off a handful of computers per day. Typically, he has his own boxes, but on some days has to order new ones from the computer company’s repair depot as part of the warranty claim.

What he’d really like to know is how, on one such occasion, a request for a box for several laptops yielded…

This.

Thanks repair people. Thanks a lot.

this is actually monday’s gambit. yes, it’s being posted after tuesday’s gambit. i know. but i try not to get lost in the weeds.

happy to be back, gentle reader. i spent the entirety of last week in ULA. what is ULA, you ask? it’s the United Leadership Academy. (if you have a trumpet, flare it now.) nearly all of it was interesting, just some of it was applicable to my day-to-day work. but that’s not important right now. what is important is that i’m back, with internet access all day long, and ready to take on the heady topics of virginia tech, alberto gonzalez, and sidney ponson. that is, at least i was. until i woke up this morning with a pretty debilitating cold. as such, this is all i’ve got:

thanks to an alignment of the stars, i had the privilege of watching fletch three (!) times last week. i realize i’m (slightly) obsessed, but if you’ve never watched it, you need to. it captures all of the good (and bad) parts of the 1980s in a succinct 98 minutes. wooziness has returned, so i’ll just give you this linky-linky to some of the best quotes.

back to bed. blar.

…where X is my passion for, and overall motivation towards my job, and Y is the passing of time on any particular day. Such spike as exists corresponds with when I finish my coffee for the morning.

Karl Rove’s quote there, folks. The war in Iraq was Bin Laden’s idea.

Seriously. How does he think he can get away with saying this? He also said he wished the war never existed, despite mounds of evidence to the contrary.

Apparently the administration policy is to lie whenever it’s convenient, and when presented with evidence to the contrary, to have a convenient memory lapse. Many of these people profess a strong belief in the Christian God, and I have to say that while I’m no expert on the subject, I’m pretty confident in saying that this is not what Jesus would do.

If only I believed that voting Democrat would make a substantial difference, life would be easier. It hurts my brain to know that these people are in charge…