"All by myself... don't wanna be... all by myself..."
Yes that's what I am at work, and it's very quiet and very lonely. Working during company shutdown is weird... but hey, at least I got prime parking. :)
Yesterday, o, joy, geo and i went all over town literally (think Mt View to Cupertino back to Mt View back to Cupertino back to Mt View...) visiting furniture stores, mattress stores, and Home Depot. At Home Depot, as we were waiting for the key maker finish copying my keys, we noticed a pole with measurements marked off on it. As we measured how tall we were, we noticed the measurements went all the way up to 16 feet. And that got us to imagining... what would a 16-foot person look like? Could you imagine him playing basketball? It'd take him 3 steps to get across the court, he'd never get called for traveling! And he could just hold the ball at his chest, and even yao ming wouldn't be able to jump and grab the ball away from him. Or... use him on defense. Just have him stand in front of the basket every so often so that the other team can't get the ball through the hoop. Then he could just use his finger and block all attempting shots. Although the guy would have to be careful to stand with his legs together b/c otherwise the little 6-feet guys could run in between his legs.
On Friday night, some of us got together at bob's place to watch Cal (the school) in their bowl game. Cal (the person) predicted that our team would have to score 50 points to win, and we all laughed at that idea - eric came up with a more reasonable 34 points. Little would we know that Cal's prediction would actually come true! Even better was Bob's absurd (at the time) idea that we would win 50-49. He was only 2 points off! What a shootout though, 52-49... who would have thought the kicker would win the game with literally 0 seconds left on the clock? (You should have seen all of us agonizing over the thought of the kicker having to win the game for us... as "missed last 5 field goal attempts" and his stats flashed across the screen.)
Okay back to work... at least there are 3 other people in my group here, lonely with me.
Yes that's what I am at work, and it's very quiet and very lonely. Working during company shutdown is weird... but hey, at least I got prime parking. :)
Yesterday, o, joy, geo and i went all over town literally (think Mt View to Cupertino back to Mt View back to Cupertino back to Mt View...) visiting furniture stores, mattress stores, and Home Depot. At Home Depot, as we were waiting for the key maker finish copying my keys, we noticed a pole with measurements marked off on it. As we measured how tall we were, we noticed the measurements went all the way up to 16 feet. And that got us to imagining... what would a 16-foot person look like? Could you imagine him playing basketball? It'd take him 3 steps to get across the court, he'd never get called for traveling! And he could just hold the ball at his chest, and even yao ming wouldn't be able to jump and grab the ball away from him. Or... use him on defense. Just have him stand in front of the basket every so often so that the other team can't get the ball through the hoop. Then he could just use his finger and block all attempting shots. Although the guy would have to be careful to stand with his legs together b/c otherwise the little 6-feet guys could run in between his legs.
On Friday night, some of us got together at bob's place to watch Cal (the school) in their bowl game. Cal (the person) predicted that our team would have to score 50 points to win, and we all laughed at that idea - eric came up with a more reasonable 34 points. Little would we know that Cal's prediction would actually come true! Even better was Bob's absurd (at the time) idea that we would win 50-49. He was only 2 points off! What a shootout though, 52-49... who would have thought the kicker would win the game with literally 0 seconds left on the clock? (You should have seen all of us agonizing over the thought of the kicker having to win the game for us... as "missed last 5 field goal attempts" and his stats flashed across the screen.)
Okay back to work... at least there are 3 other people in my group here, lonely with me.
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