Congrats to the San Francisco 49ers for their stunning victory over the Saints today to go on the the NFC Champtionship.
It’s been a long time in the making.
My MVP of the game: Vernon Davis
Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP
As the Holiday season draws to a close, just two days now until “The Big Day” those of us at work come together for our annual “What Did You Get From The Suppliers?” comparison event.
As I started my career working for the government, I rather enjoy being in private industry where we can accept small tokens from the companies we work with.
Now let me just say, I’m usually the big loser in these competitions because I work with the telco commodity. Those companies are as cheap as the day is long.
I thought I had a pretty good entry this year for Worst Present. I got this tacky plexiglass picture frame that sits in a weird base and when I put the plastic part into the base, it immediately broke.
And then, I got ANOTHER one in the mail the next day. Their sales team clearly didn’t coordinate.
So I brought that out and declared it the worst gift of 2011.
But I got trumped and trumped hard.
“Oh NO!” I heard from the corner. “I can beat that.”
Beat that, she did.
Behold:
Now, it helps to know that the recipient of this present is a very classy, stylish girl from the City. She’s quite Coco Chanel and Jimmy Choo.
To make this gift even more charming, it was handed to my coworker while still wrapped in the plastic shopping bag from the Dallas airport.
Obviously I had to concede the race. I reboxed my broken plexiglass frame in defeat.
By the way, the lady with the worst gift is also the winner of the most and best gifts too. She works in temporary staffing. Those suppliers fall all over themselves to give stuff away at the holidays.
I need to consider working in a new group. This annual defeat, even in the worst category, is gosh darn humbling.
And for as ungrateful as I may seem, I really do enjoy the little trinkets our suppliers send.
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Especially when it is a box of See’s candy.
Our poor beleaguered Candlestick Park. The windy old jewel is really starting to show her age.
Well, not starting, really. Rapidly declining is more like it.
Last night she had a show to deliver: A contending team vs a contending team and an audience on the big stage of Monday Night Football.
Then this happened:
That blue light you see off to the left is a power transformer blowing up.
In a packed stadium in a hotly contested game with rafters full of fans from the opposing team out at Candlestick point…that’s not exactly where you want to be when the lights go out.
After some waiting around, the lights did come back on and the 49ers did prevail over the Pittsburgh Steelers, so all’s well that ends well, I suppose.
But what a sad state of affairs for the ‘Stick.
Transformer blowin’ gif found here.
And I don’t even have a note from my mom.
Missed blogging yesterday as I had that last day before vacation thing going at work.
Run, run, run.
But I got it all wrapped up and three glorious days of vacation await.
After work, I rewarded myself (and The Good Man) with a San Francisco Giants baseball game.
And they won, thank you very much.
For those who don’t Tweet, I posted this last night.
I call it:
Pre-Game Still Life. With My Beer.
Image: Copyright 2011, Karen Fayeth. Subject to the Creative Commons license in the right hand column of this and every page. Photo taken with an iPhone 4 using the Instagram app.
So you know this whole schoolyard game called roshambo, also known as rock-paper-scissors?
Yeah. I played it on the schoolyard. Years ago there was a lively night in Las Cruces where a drunk cowboy accused my best friend of cheating at rock-paper-scissors. She wasn’t cheating, he was just so drunk that his reflexes were slow, and she could see what was coming.
Plus, he kept throwing rock. Nothing else. Just rock. Sorta hard to sort out that strategy.
But that’s history. Let’s get current.
Recently in my internet wanderings, I read someone’s blog post discussing how maybe rock and paper and scissors aren’t the best choices in this game.
I wish I could recall where I read this so I could give credit. It was a quick piece, but for some reason the points stayed with me.
Ok, so basic rules, as we all know:
Rock beats scissors since rock smashes scissors. Good, ok, I’m on board.
Scissors beats paper since scissors cuts paper. Ok, yup.
Paper beats rock, because paper covers rock.
: cue the sound of squealing brakes :
What now? Paper covers rock and thus renders it ineffective?
Not so sure about that. I’m onboard with broken scissors and cut paper, but the logic doesn’t follow to paper covered rock.
I’m pretty gall damn sure that if I cover a rock with a piece of paper then huck that rock offa someone’s dome, it’s STILL going to cause damage. Paper has done *nothing* to render the rock useless or ineffective.
All I know is that in the heat of the battle I’m taking rock or scissors with me because no sissy piece of paper is going to save my hide! I need something with some heft!
This game has been flawed for YEARS!
So I propose some alternates. How about rock-scissors-machete?
Rock beats scissors since rock can smash the scissors.
Machete beats rock because a super sharp machete can either deflect the rock or maybe cut it?
Then scissors beats machete? Ok, this idea is starting to break down. Maybe scissors can cut the handle covering off machete thus leaving it very slippery?
No? Ok.
Let’s try again.
Rock-scissors-plastic explosives?
Rock smashes scissors.
Scissors cuts up plastic explosives, thus making it less powerful.
Plastic explosives blows the bejeebus out of rock.
See. That works. And it makes a lot more logical sense. We can even keep the hand gestures the same. A flat slab of plastic explosives could look kinda like paper. It really works!
Wow, I’m brilliant. A certified GENIUS! (or simply certified).
Image from Wikimedia and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This week’s Theme Thursday was posted a day early, so I dove in. This week’s theme is “paper.”