An American-born football player over here (that’s “soccer player” for some of you) claims that during a match he saw one of the opposing team’s fans making an “airplane gesture” at him. Which is terrible and all… but what the hell is an “airplane gesture”? Everything I can think of would be just as equally applicable to a bird or something. How does this guy know for sure that the person was referring to the tragedy?

School Disco

My friend Martin has been trying his hand at this weblogging business. Go check out his site and give him some encouragement. (But I have to warn you, avoid his School Disco pictures!)

For you non-UKers, School Disco is a ridiculous club event where lots of adults demean themselves by dressing up in school uniforms (a la Britney Spears) and trying to get off with one another to the sound of 80’s music. Or something. I’d write more, but Meg’s already said it better than I could. I’ll just further note how disgusting it is to see the crowd of dirty old men clustered around the Lloyd’s cashpoint on Saturday nights drooling over the “Catholic schoolgirls” in body glitter and pigtails. Ugh. But Martin loves it and I’m sure we’ll have a very entertaining argument going on in the comments section any moment now… 🙂

Salon.com’s moving virtually all its news and politics to the “Premium” site. The editor’s argument is that “while media outlets like CNN, Fox and MSNBC dish out the predictable mix of flag-waving kitsch, White House spin and wire copy, Salon breaks the hard-hitting stories and runs the complete range of commentary — from left to right to none-of-the-above — that the American public desperately needs as we educate ourselves about the coming conflict.” Of course, he doesn’t mention the BBC, which had arguably the best news coverage on the day of the 9-11 tragedy (and continues to impress). I’m sorry to say, this looks like the final nail in Salon’s coffin for me.

Random. A guy I graduated high school with just e-mailed me up out of the blue to say hi. He’d been browsing and found my site after searching on our school. Hi, Jer!

So anyway, I went to Google to try to reproduce his search to see if anybody else is on-line. In the middle of my results I came across this link, which is a list of all the high schools in Indiana and their nicknames. There are some weird names on there. Like, the nickname for the Indiana School for the Deaf is “Deaf Hoosiers”. WHAT? How about the New Harmony “Rappites”. What the hell is a rappite? And hello? The Indianapolis Northwest “Space Pioneers”? I’m also glad that I was never a River City “Ingot”. (Isn’t that a lump of metal?) And what about the Shoals “Jug Rox”? That’s not even a real word! Compared to those, Lakeland “Lakers” is a lot less embarrassing than I thought.

Yeah, I thought I’d do some blogging yesterday, but I really and truly spent 10 hours straight doing hardcore HTML work. You can see it if you go to the Micky Dee’s site and click on the “Kidzone”. All of that was done yesterday. What a sucky weekend.

Weirdness. We were supposed to have our monthly meeting/drinks session tonight and rumors were flying about more layoffs, buyouts, etc. We were also dreading more of the horrendous Chardonnay they tried to pawn off on us last time. But oddly enough, when we got to the board room there were just cases and cases of Beck’s. And no meeting. Just drinks. On one hand it was really, really cool… but on the other hand, it was a little Twilight Zone.

And in further work-related news, after sitting on my ass for two weeks straight I’ve been suddenly asked to come in tomorrow for emergency work on McDonald’s. Yeah, I’m the friggin’ cavalry, and I’m riding to the rescue. So I’ll be here all day. Expect more blogging.