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[Golfhaus]

This weekend was the perfect storm of young alumni, rugby, construction equipment, legal documentation, and copious alcohol consumption.
Why did they leave the keys in the bulldozer?

Best opening to a short story ever.

After a meeting Friday, we started forming articles of incorporation. Then I bought a blackberry, can't wait to get it in the mail.
The future is looking better and better every day.

If played right, this could then be a good ending for said short story.

[wombat]

Sadly there was no camera.

How can this be? No one had a cell phone camera? I thought this was the one way you could count on the youth of today!

[theinevitable]

SNL's debate skit has an establishing shot of my favorite building on campus. cool.

[littlefallsmets]

The Wombat desires pictures of rugby players so drunk that they're willing to admit why they like being in piles of sweaty men.

The Wombat can share these desires with us, without embarrassment, because we are all imaginary.

[wombat]

You miss the most important point. It's the drunk sweaty men stealing the bulldozer.

[Golfhaus]

Yeah, I mean if she wants pictures of drunk collegiates just existing, she can type in the myspace URL and just throw some random letters after it and have a better than 40% shot at finding something.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Can anyone decode this?

Oct 6, 2008     
9:02 PM    Left FedEx origin facility   WEST CHESTER, PA     
8:23 PM    Departed FedEx location      NEWARK, NJ     
6:00 AM    Picked up      WEST CHESTER, PA     
3:14 AM    Package data transmitted to FedEx      

Did my phone go from PA to NJ then back to PA? huh?
      
   

[pmcd9]

Got my modem fixed.  After about 3 months of shitty internet service I realized hey, it might be the modem.  it was.

[KeithHernandez]

Can anyone decode this?

Oct 6, 2008     
9:02 PM    Left FedEx origin facility   WEST CHESTER, PA     
8:23 PM    Departed FedEx location      NEWARK, NJ     
6:00 AM    Picked up      WEST CHESTER, PA     
3:14 AM    Package data transmitted to FedEx      

Did my phone go from PA to NJ then back to PA? huh?

damn, thats awesome.

In a related story, I started work today for the first time in two months, but I just ordered a shit load of stuff online that will probably becoming tomorrow. 

So yeah, what do you do when you can't be home for stuff?  Can I pick it up on the weekend?  IDK, i'm sure this has happened to someone, what do I do?  Should I just be home (I can just not sign up to work, say, Wednesday, until next week and no one will care if I only work four days this week.)

Edit:  I live in a major city if it makes a difference.

[jaydub]

watch an internationally reknowned scientist, philosopher and raconteur be utterly flummoxed by a coworker.  I'm at a great retreat, put on courtesy of my company for the R&D group, and the guest speaker tonight was Dr. Spencer Wells, of The Genographic Project fame.  During a Q&A session after his presentation, one of my colleagues, with a thick slavic accent asked what the speaker thought the possession of a baculum by Australian Aboriginal people¹ meant to the "Out of Africa" hypothesis.  After a couple, increasingly incredulous attempts at decoding the questioner's intent, the good doctor stood there for a couple, agonised seconds before I rescued him with a question about mitochondrial DNA genotype frequencies. 

¹This is utter bunkum.  I have no idea what my colleague was talking about, and you can be sure he's going to get the ribbing of a lifetime over the next few weeks.  No modern human has a c*ck bone.

[CortJstr]

A-CAP, huh, I've seen tracking that looks like that many times when the package was crossing time-zones, but never just between PA and NJ.

Keith, FedEx/UPS no longer require signatures for residential deliveries unless the shipper pays extra. So unless you ordered like a computer or booze or something the package will just be left at your door.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Oct 7, 2008     
9:09 AM    Departed FedEx location      NEWARK, NJ
Oct 6, 2008     
9:02 PM    Left FedEx origin facility   WEST CHESTER, PA     
8:23 PM    Departed FedEx location      NEWARK, NJ     
6:00 AM    Picked up      WEST CHESTER, PA     
3:14 AM    Package data transmitted to FedEx      

The plot thickens.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Your package is, in fact, in two places at once.  Perhaps next week you will invent a time machine, and send your package back in time to be delivered again.

[wombat]

Oct 6, 2008     
9:02 PM    Left FedEx origin facility   WEST CHESTER, PA     
8:23 PM    Departed FedEx location      NEWARK, NJ     

Am I reading this right? These times are on the same day? Because according to Google maps, these two locations are two hours apart.

I discovered this in the course of destroying my beautiful theory, that these two towns bordered each other and the warehouse overlapped the border and had two doors, each exiting in different towns. In retrospect I could have destroyed this theory with a second's thought without Google, because I am well aware that Newark is not even near the Pennsylvania border.

[lprkn]

I like The Mayor's explanation best but my first thought was a couple of guys playing hot potato with each other as the pass on the highway, opposite directions, high speeds.

You've gotta get your kicks where you can when you drive for FedEx.