Printer Guy
The man sitting next to our (IT) printer is Shane. Shane is known and loved by all. Okay, a bunch of people know who he is and some of them probably love him.
I only bring him up to get into this excerpt from a recent This American Life. It’s only about 4 minutes long and semi-amusing (unless you are the guy that sits next to the printer in your office).
“a stats geek behind the scenes tweeting interesting stuff”
I’ve been beating the Twitter drum ever since that digital light bulb came on for me. I did my best to offer some practical applications for our various businesses. But none were as spot-on as StatTweets. From the StatTweet website:
“Most sports-related media outlets that have a Twitter account simply blast everything through a single account. I don’t know about you, but I don’t find this very useful. I prefer Twitter updates targeted at just the teams I’m interested in. And I’m not talking about just a news feed. It needs to be as if each sports team had a twitter account and a stats geek behind the scenes tweeting interesting stuff.
That’s exactly what the StatTweets accounts are intended to do (but it is all automated). Not only can you follow just the teams you are interested in, but you can interact with each account to retrieve team and player stats dynamically.”
Panty Mython
No idea who this is (although she looks/sounds very familiar) but her profile page says she lives in Jefferson City and we have reason to believe she fuels up at the Coffee Zone.
The Lathe of Heaven
“He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.”
— The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)
Now some folks say its too big and uses too much gas
Some folks say its too old and that it goes too fast
But my love is bigger than a honda, its bigger than a subaru–Pink Cadillac, Bruce Springsteen