The Aerie

Various

Cribbage
My statistics:

Games won           134     134

Skunks               15      13

Points pegged      6254    6075

Total points      27604   27453

This of course are my statistics from the excellent free Palm Cribbage game that occupies my time on the light-rail trips to and from the Lake Street station.

Unfortunately I learned how to cheat at the game. If you switch to phone mode anytime after the cut and before the final card played, the game backs up to the initial six-card deal. It's very hard not to give in to the temptation when you crib yourself a ten and a nine, leaving 5 4 4 2, and then you cut another nine. So now I have reset my statistics and I'm going to try to play without cheating and see how I do.

Promise!

Lifestyle Management

My client asked me to a little research and scope an enterprise-wide data classification project. This is like being asked to spend an afternoon planning to evacuate every person on Earth to the Moon, and is about as likely to be implemented. Nonetheless, I'm happy to educate myself on the topic.

Turns out that while my back was turned "Data classification" has turned into "Information Lifecycle Management," and spawned an entire industry. While relaying this update I mistakenly referred to it as "Information Lifestyle Management," which sent me off into a riff about the lifestyle that information leads. "It's preppy and active! Information is a bad boy with a sensitive side!" My coworkers were simultaneously confused and amused. I need to stick to my meds more closely.

The Cookies Are Here!

Uh oh! The Girl Scout cookies are back!

Every year they set up a table in the Crystal Court. Usually I can resist, but this time I gave in and picked up two boxes.

"They have no trans fats!" the girls piped.

"But they are otherwise comprised entirely of the remaining kinds of fat," I replied.

"And sugar!" one of them responded. I couldn't argue with that.

Brought two boxes (Thin Mints and Peanut Butter Patties) back to the office and then agressively tried to pawn them off on coworkers. Otherwise I'll end up eating them all! And based on the nutritional information, that would be a bad thing. Half a dozen Peanut Butter Patties would provide as much saturated fat as I'm supposed to eat in a whole day.

Posted by Albatross at February 17, 2006 2:06 PM | TrackBack