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This line from a restaurant review made me laugh: "I fear that waiting for them to hunt and trap the duck entree may be coloring my review." (

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CNN reported that a court had accidentally subpoenaed a dog to testify in court. (The inmate wrote a letter to said dog, which is where the lead came from. Look, I don't make this stuff up.) A court official, upon learning of the error (by having the dog show up and be barred from the building), reported that the dog seemed very friendly and probably "would have been a cooperative witness".

Today at work we were given a t-shirt for the new product launch. It includes some code snippets in the background. My first reaction was to wonder if the code went through code review and intellectual-property review. :-) (Personally, I think that if a t-shirt's worth of code gives away your trade secrets, they probably weren't secrets worth protecting anyway. But this code was in no danger of doing that.)

We had a party to celebrate said release this afternoon. The venue had several pool tables (pool? billiards? is there a difference, or is that just a US-versus-UK thing?). Sadly, theoretical knowledge of how objects move (in a frictionless universe, natch) does little to impart actual skill in propelling a cue stick in the desired way. So I stink at the game, but I still enjoy trying.

Conversation with a 911 dispatcher yesterday:
Me: I'm calling to report a disabled vehicle blocking traffic.
Him: Where?
Me: [street] at [street], eastbound.
Him: (pause) You're calling from Pittsburgh, right?
Me: Um, yeah. In [neighborhood].
Him: Ok. It's just that you said "eastbound".

(People around here seem to have a lot of trouble with compass directions. Sure, part of it is that the roads aren't exactly straight, but still, if you describe a place as being, e.g., on the north side of the street, likely as not someone will ask which side that is.)

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