"Miracle on 34th Street"

Next in the Season's movie-watching last night was 1947's "Miracle on 34th Street".



"But... but maybe he's only a little crazy like painters or composers or... or some of those men in Washington."

promotion to pirate's henchman

My employer is going thru a merger with another company - our side being the assimilator. Because of that, today there was a meeting with the contractor group who'll write the interface between the assimilated's systems and my team's. During the course of the meeting, it was stated that I'd be a consutant to the contractor, which I already knew would be the case, but my position was described with an acronym I didn't quite catch.They explained that it stands for 'Subject Matter Expert'. Upon finding that 'SME' was pronounced 'Smee', I said:

"Oh, you mean, like Captain Hook's henchman?"

one yearly review coming right up

Today, the team's manager sent an email to each of us, asking for a list of our top achievements for 2009. Here's what one of our users said when I mentionned this to her...

"You could write that one of your top achievements was that you avoided strangling my boss."
"I don't think that'd go over well. How about 'Our users much prefer dealing with me than with Jonathan(1)'?"
"Are you sure that 'prefer' really is the word you want to use?"
"Well..."
"You shoul say 'Users hate Jonathan(2) - they love(3) Serge'?"
"Aw shucks!"(4)



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(1) Not his real name.
(2) Did I already say it's not his real name?
(3) Yes, she used that very word.
(4) Yes, I said that.