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I done got tagged to do a book meme. This is a meme that I can get on board with.

The rules of the meme are:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
2. Find page 123
3. Find the first 5 sentences
4. Post the next 3 sentences
5. Tag 5 people

As for the nearest book, my bookshelf at work is directly behind me, so all of the books were equidistant from me. Therefore, I chose a non-technical book, Management by Baseball: The Official Rules for Winning Management in Any Field. It’s an entertaining read, with some enjoyable baseball stories used to describe his management philosophy. On with the reading.

This excerpt is talking about Mickey Mantle’s 565-foot home run in April of 1953.

First, there was the stadium-dimension factor, compounded by estimating the distance from the fence to the adjacent street, compounded by (the Yankee publicist) [Red] Patterson’s use of pacing as a measuring technique, compounded be the 10-year-old’s memory of where the ball was (no where it landed, but where it stopped rolling). And while sometimes a lot of little inaccuracies can cancel one another out, remember it was a publicist doing the measuring — a person who had every incentive to maximize the number to inflate the importance of the story. Bad tools, weak quality control, biased agent: a fatal combo in baseball or in your organization.

On with the tagging.

• Karla
• Stephanie
• Jim
• Aj
• Bren

Actually, they are Jim’s rules:

There will be no rules posted here, nor will I “tag” anyone, but here are a few random facts about me.

I was tagged for a meme, and so I will post 8 random facts/stories about myself. Here goes.

1. This is the first meme that I have ever responded to.
2. As a kid I wanted to prove that man could live on bread and water alone.
3. For all of the Microsoft bashing I do, I consider Excel to be one of the best software titles ever.
4. It actually hurt me to type #3.
5. I am responsible for Judah’s haircuts in the summer months. I guess I’ll cut Abel’s next summer, too.
6. I’ve had five concussions. But get this, for some reason I have a sense that I’m forgetting about one. They are (in chronological order [the ones I remember]):
   1. toddler in the church nursery
   2. elementary school age playing in a sprinkle, hello sidewalk
   3. middle school age playing football at recess
   4. high school wrestling match
   5. college Bruin Brawl
7. Growing up I tried to avoid yard work. Now it is something I strive to do well at.
8. The “formal” announcement is just coming out that I am shifting my responsibilities at work. I will continue to work in Admissions half-time. My other half-time will be in IT, doing software development and system administration.

Walk away! On Friday my office was involved in a division picnic at Cook Park in Tigard. When they arrived they found sections of the park roped off with caution/police tape. One of the activities of the day was people could go canoeing down the Tualatin River. The picnic ended up moving to another park, but that park was up-stream from Cook Park, so those canoeing ended up going by Cook Park. Anyways, the “person canoeing” in this story is someone I supervise. Weird.

Coffee shop anyone?

Aj sent me this video link this evening. Lots of fun!

This has been big in the new around the rest of the country over the last couple of years, but it has now finally hit here. That’s right folks, the West Nile virus is in Yamhill County. Lock your doors, shutter your windows, and go into the annual winter hibernation early.

[tags]West Nile virus[/tags]

Have you heard of the board game Settlers of Catan? All I know is that it’s hugely popular in the Newberg area. I’ve played it some, and I’ve definitely enjoyed it. It’s like a combination of Monopoly and Risk, but has an end that is easily reachable (unlike Monopoly and Risk that can last for hours without end).

Well, a short while ago a co-worker notified me of a place online where you can play Settlers! The night she told me I played for over 3 hours. Welcome to Time Waster 2006! You can play the original version of Settlers, or the variation Cities and Knights; you can even play on a variety of board designs. You have the choice of playing computer players, or you can open up your game for others online to play against you. Who needs to sit across the table from your competition, you can do it in the comfort of your PJs. It’s hours of good fun.

Check it out over at AsoBrain.

[tags]Settlers of Catan, AsoBrain[/tags]

For those who, like us, follow the story of CTU Agent Jack Bauer every Monday night, this website gives you the rundown on those unfortunate fools that got in his way, complete with photos and video clips.

[tags]Jack Bauer, 24, CTU[/tags]

For a while now I’ve subscribed to the feed for the Google Video of the Day blog. This is easily one of my top 5 favorite blogs right now. I was just given a treat by them, so I will pass it along to you.

[Linky Love]

When we were driving back from picking up our Christmas Tree we were listening to a local station on the radio. During one of their station identifier/promo spots they said something to the effect of “Happy Holidays from Portland official Christmas music station.”

They can’t say “Merry Christmas” because that’s not politically correct. We need to not offend those that don’t celebrate Christmas, so we’ll use the generic “Happy Holidays” saying. However, we will blantently say that we are the “official” home for Christmas music on the radio in Portland. I’m sure there’s not a huge market for Hanukkah or Kwanza music in the Northwest, but still. I guess I think it’s rediculasly inconsistent on their part.