Weekend Review

Weekend Ball: Evan for effectively developing and orchestrating a golf and technology conference with such sponsors as Nike Golf and Callaway. I know he put a lot of work into it, and from all indications it was a huge success. If you want to check out their product use the "iclub" link on the right side of this page.

Weekend Goat: Bode Miller, American skier who has been pompous and arrogant, and, to this point, is medal less. This is only the second time I find myself cheering against an American in the Olympics, the first being the 2002 basketball team.

Quote of the weekend: For this one I am going to go back to Thursday. My company is currently going through a reorganization, which means in a couple of weeks you might be seeing a lot more posts. They announced that on Thursday at 3:45 they would release the new organizational chart. Obviously, everyone in the company decided to open the chart, which was on a website, at the exact same time. This caused pretty much everything on our network to come to a standstill, including our shared drives. My next-cube-over co-worker was working on something at that point in one of the drives, when all of a sudden her documents were gone. She started screaming and flailing her arms. “It’s gone! It’s gone! Oh my God, it’s gone!” Well, just about that point in the office you could have heard a pin drop as everyone was reading through the new chart (and probably thinking she was screaming because her job was not listed). And, as it so happens, the Director of Human Resources came around the corner just as my co-worker was screaming. and immediately started asking if everything was alright. In a tense situation like that; her screaming was absolutely hilarious.

THUMBS UP, THUMBS DOWN SEGMENT

THUMBS UP: Adrienne, for being drunk at happy hour before I even arrived
THUMBS DOWN: Kyla, for getting to happy hour extremely late

THUMBS DOWN: Howard, for driving us up and down Peachtree at the failed Oysterfest
THUMBS UP: Nancy’s pizza for having two locations
THUMBS UP: Bridgetown Grill’s coffee. Bridgetown Grill is a great place with some delicious island food, and apparently really good coffee.
THUMBS DOWN: Jorge, for bailing out all weekend long. Hopefully not representative of the Peruvian people

THUMBS UP: Michelle, for being a good uecker partner
THUMBS DOWN: Howard and Todd harassing me during uecker while I was trying to learn the game causing…
THUMBS DOWN: Me to have to “throw down” which does not set a good example for all the kids out there. Kids, you should only “throw down” if absolutely necessary.

THUMBS DOWN: Texas Longhorns for losing to OSU. UGLY!
THUMBS DOWN: U.S. men and women’s Olympic hockey teams for both losing to Sweden. We’ve got to do better than that.
THUMBS UP: US women’s curling team. They might suck at curling, but they look good doing it.
THUMBS UP: Joey Cheek, American speed skater who showed class, unlike so many winter Olympians this year, announcing he would donate all the proceeds from his gold medal wins to charity.

THUMBS UP: Howard and Todd for making a good low country boil. For a couple of damn Yankees, not too bad.
THUMBS DOWN: Me, for not really helping in the cooking or the cleaning of the low country boil.
THUMBS UP: The Sixth Sense, a really good movie, which caused me not to really help in the cooking or cleaning of the low country boil.

THUMBS DOWN: Julie, I haven’t seen her in a month and a half.