Office Talking

Sometimes I think businesses spend more time talking about how to do a job, or how to talk about how to do a job, rather than just doing the job.

A Word From The Great Mr. Carlin

No Point, Just Cool

This is a picture I took last winter just outside my job at the time. I say at the time because this was one of many jobs I worked at where after finishing a huge project, I was told I was being let go. As bad as being fired is, the worst of it is I didn't even get paid.

When I was working here, I was employed through a consulting company on a temp-to-perm position. The deal was that I was to work for three months, and then at the end of those three months I would then be offered a chance to renegotiate for a full-time wage and position. Well, after eight business days, my time there came to an end and the consulting company I was employed through refused to pay me for my time.

This is too long a story to tell now... some other time.

A Picture

Yeah. A picture.

Death of a Hero

As stunning as the news was, the truth is no less valid. George Carlin, a master wordsmith and comedic visionary, died at the age of 71 years old last night. While I was self-absorbed into my own rituals of surviving from day to day, the news reached my ears like a Boeing 747 smashing into my forehead. A man whom I admired as one our generations most overlooked and intelligent social analyzers shocked the world in a way I think not even he could have planned any better. His last jab at the country, and his fans, as a way of saying, "Gotcha, Fuckers!"

In the words of the late, and beloved George Carlin, "If you haven't gotten where you're going, you aren't there yet."

Actually, I think a more fitting quote to summarize the end of a great legacy, a legacy only Mr. Carlin himself could have left behind would be, "Fuck you."

You will be missed, Sir.
"He was here just a minute ago." -- George Carlin on what his epitaph would read