Notes from a bureaucracy

Highlights from yesterday's work meeting:

- Discussion about whether PD for new tech position was for 'Senior nerds' or 'Uber nerds'

- Trying to find correct metaphor for our organisation and how it relates to climate change. A choice between tug boat to Titanic, tug boat for Queen Mary or tug boat to the Love Boat.

- Discussions about 'dewatered cake'. Even less pleasant than you might imagine.

Profanity filter fail

My work clearly has an issue with macrobiotic vegan lunch products. No Iku.com.au for me.

Clearly another part of the Man's conspiracy...

A pictorial representation of Torts

If I was an academic I would help my students remember particularly important points using Lolcat memory aids. Like this:




Liability in tort:
Duty of care? But of course - it are a kitteh after all.
Breach of duty? Clearly, reasonably forseeable that kitteh will require boxhab after this episode. And so it goes. It is possibly lucky that I am a desk monkey rather than an academic.

Lolling for change

In which I once more advocate the political potential of LolCats.

Who could vote for that gun-hungry lady when confronted by these fuzzy faces?

I also notice that Pundit Kitchen is very consistently Lolling in support of young Barak. The youth have spoken!

Neo-con-logism

This is possibly no longer appropriate given the state of the Palin offspring of the same name:

Bristol fashion
PRONUNCIATION:(BRIS-tl FASH-uhn)
MEANING:adjective: In good order.
ETYMOLOGY:We know the term is coined after Bristol, England, but we are not so certain why. Some believe the term alludes to the prosperity of the city from its flourishing shipping business. Others claim that the term arose as a result of the very high tidal range of the port of Bristol: at low tides ships moored here would go aground and if everything on the ship was not stowed away properly, chaos would result. The term is often used to describe boats and typically used in the phrase "shipshape and Bristol fashion".

Oh the sharp, shooting irony. Or is that the terror that they may fall for SP? *shudders*

Pouty

Of late things have been somewhat 'trying' in that Stella Gibbons kind of a way. Nothing to do about it but soldier on, eat truffles as often as possible and perhaps affect a little pout. Much as my man Karl does.



There. That's better.