I’m on yet another conference call right now (and see how hard I’m working?) and something struck me especially funny today as I joined the call. In case God Almighty has blessed you with conference call ignorance, you typically join a conference call by dialing whatever AT&T business number you have been given, and then entering an unusually elaborate password or PIN* number. It’s the password that has me chuckling to myself wearily; I’m sure it’s to prevent corporate spies and saboteurs, but the idea that someone who wasn’t invited to a conference call and didn’t have to be there would be trying to sneak his way past the velvet rope cracks me the hell up this morning.
But these things make me slaphappy. It’s hypnotic, listening to people update about their progress on something you’ve never heard of in jargon you don’t understand.
I promise I’m good at my job.
*PIN stands for “personal identification number,” by the way, meaning that we all walk around talking about our ATM card’s personal identification number number. If we’re also talking about the “ATM machine,” it gets even better. Here’s to building in redundancy.
December 15th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Don’t forget the PIN Number Numerical Code.
December 15th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Britain’s equivalent of the FBI is called the National Centre for Policing Excellence, and I think that’s great. Everything makes me laugh today; I must have finally cracked.
January 4th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
The most painful part of Wii Sports is getting beaten by your 5 year old daughter. Give her a round to learn to bowl, and then she starts rolling strikes. And then you teach her to box and she knocks out her own mother in two rounds.
I’m not sure if we should be humbled as parents at out daughter’s great prowess, or embarrassed by our own.
January 4th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
And apparently while I thought I was posting the above comment on the entry about Wii sports, I clicked on something and posted it here.
January 4th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
and now we are all less impressed by your 5 year old’s ability to beat you at video games