Downtown’s Secret Community Pool
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Los Angeles, Work
Today, the coworkers decided to celebrate the birth of our country a day early by grabbing a quick lunch by the pool at The Standard and taking a post nosh dip.
Apparently, all you need to do to swim in the rooftop pool is buy a drink or grab a bite to eat. Had I known this, I’d have tried pulling that little scam off much sooner.
Some hipster girl let us know that she makes it over to The Standard a few times a week despite working at the Bonaventure because it’s not too crowded on the weekdays. Good to know.
With that being said, mojitos run about $13 — and beers are only slightly less expensive — so you might want to take that into consideration.
Still, it’s a fun way to kill an afternoon. You should go try it sometime…
Flagpole Sitta
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Video, Work
Having a sort of meh hump day? This lip dub of Flagpole Sitta should brighten things up for you a little bit. It’s honestly one of the better lip dubs I’ve seen in a while.
After showing it to a few coworkers, some of us are plotting our own crazy awesome DreamHost lip dub in response. I’m not sure if it can live up to this one, but I do know that we’d end up have a lot of fun trying.
Please Advise
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, Photography, Work
Since I work primarily in support, I read a lot of email day in and day out. After a while you start to pick up patterns. One day, my coworker Mike P. started to notice that an awful lot of folks finished their emails with the phrase “Please advise.” So much so that he started to keep a tally with a red sharpie and a piece of printer paper behind his desk.
Every time somebody in the office would get a message that contained the terse ending, we’d holler a “Please advise!” in the direction of his desk and he’d get to tallying. Mind you, this is a guy who knows perl and has access to our internal database. He could write a script to keep a running tally if he wanted to — but it’s just more fun for us to do it this way.
So in the interest of flogging a dead horse, I’ve gone ahead and crafted the “please advise” shirt. The plan is to wear it into work at semi-regular intervals for a good laugh every now and again. Well, at least until it stops being funny. I guess I’ll have to string it out if I want it to have any staying power.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with all of these left over letters…
I’m Not Even Supposed To Be Here Today
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Gaming, Geekery, Work
I don’t even like first person shooters all that much — but when I swung by the office to drop off my weekly groceries, I ended up getting roped into a LAN game of Quake 3. Despite the fact that I totally suck at first person shooters, I have to admit that it was actually kind of fun.
Why Quake 3? Well, it’s one of the only games that the Mac, Linux and Windows people in the office can all play without too much trouble. If it’s cross platform, who really cares if it’s 8 years old?
I’ll probably stick with my DS Lite in the long run. Still, the occasional pick-up game might be nice to blow off some steam every now and then.
Now Hiring
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, Work
Hey there all you crazy Bay Area kids!
My work is looking for a programmer for our fledgling satellite office up North. So if you’ve got what we’re looking for, you should totally go apply.
You Know, Legally…
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Work
There are days when I really love my job. Today was one of them.
P.S. If you think this is even remotely funny, please Digg the shit out of this.
War… What Is It Good For?
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Work
Taking a Nerf dart straight to the eye and having it suction on is no fun whatsoever.
Despite apologizing profusely, the coworker who did it to me will pay dearly…
P.S. Don’t worry, I’m not blind or anything. Things are just sort of blurry out of my left eye.
P.P.S. Actually, my vision’s cleared right up. My eye still feels sort of meh, but I’m sure that’ll go away too.
Fireworks
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under General, Work
As I lay in bed and stare at the ceiling, Piccolo Petes shriek briefly before exploding loudly.
Part of me is wishing that I didn’t volunteer to take that shift at work tomorrow.
