In case you did not know, Memorial Day Weekend is an ABOVE AVERAGE time to stock up on soda. The grocery stores are jostling for your soda dollar and you are the benefactor! I found Coke Zero for $2/12 pack! That is a very good price - less than 17 cents per can! Normally we're looking at $2.50-3.00 as being the best price. So I bought a bunch before I cruised into work today - felt like a rocketship the rest of the day knowing I had that in the back of my car. The other excellent times to buy are, of course, 4th of July and Labor Day.
Idea: A Norseploitation cinematic movement. First, you create a Scandinavian equivalent of "Shaft" - a movie about the guy every Scandinavian-American guy wants to be. Then the studios begin financing a bunch of exploitation movies that use the same themes. The Scandinavian "Shaft" will feature a prominent use of Swedish jiu jitsu, a mixed martial art form that I developed. It's mostly about avoiding confrontation and bargaining with your attacker.
Fun thing I discovered: to find evidence of people who work in your office being complete retards, just google: site:myspace.com "company name". It helps if its a fairly distinctive name. Some similar searches and you can find the interns that will be making copies and moping around in un-ironed shirts all summer.
This is an idea I had for advancing workplace gender equality: invite more girls to our thrice weekly 2 hour lunches, which is almost always 4 to 6 males. My theory is that when we eat together, we will fail or get ahead together. Either way - more equal. The results, thus far, have been mixed. I now feel I am a warrior for equal opportunity, but there have been fewer swears and the conversations are safer, as though everyone is being too careful. It's like the theme song: "You take the good, you take the bad/ you take them both and there you have the facts of life." Perhaps I will try to encourage some swearing at the next lunch - Thai food usually lends itself to swears.
