Snow days

Indiana DOT truck driver: WTF? Why the hell is there a giant hunk o' metal on my damn truck?
Indiana DOT worker: Its a snow plow.
Indiana DOT truck driver: What's it fer?

Link

Names of some people I work with

Or names of some people that work where I work.

Chainsaw
Hacksaw
High 5
beerbong (his actual last name)

Wikipedia Nap

So recently though some fashion I discovered something fairly interesting. This phenomenon I have decided to call the Wikipedia Nap (as you may have guessed from the title of this post).

Anyhow, there have been days for one reason or another where I was just damn tired and found myself in a less then optimal state of mind for work. So I hopped onto my favorite worksafe website and started my browsing. I used to read the regular encyclopedias when I was a kind anyway so it wasn't a big stretch. I found that after just browsing and letting my mind wander from topic to topic I seemed to be far more awake and able to do work.

So recently following lunch I go browse wikipedia for about half an hour. It's almost as refreshing as a 10 minute power nap. I wonder if its related to simply letting you mind go where it wants to go instead of where you want it to go that refreshes it (dreams for me at least are always virtually completely random).

So next time you feel tired at work try typing something random into wikipedia and start your travels.

From the history yesterday was:

Abcess
Alcatraz Island
Alvin Karpis
Anaphylaxis
Arenavirus
Arming Sword
Atropine
Autoinjector
Airborne Warning and Control System
Birdman of Alcatraz
Broadsword
Bullwip
Al Capone
Cat o' Nine Tails
Charles Manson
Urumi
Claymore
Document Management System
E-10 MC2A
Ebola
Edo Period
Epinephrine
EpiPen
viral Hemorrhagic Fever
Indianapolis, Indiana
Jitte
Kalari
Katana
Kilij
La Cosa Nostra
Leprosy
Lipid
Longsword
Made
Made man
Mafia
Mameluke Sword
Mortuary Sword
Club
Polyphasic sleep
Pralidoxime
Schiavona
Scimitar
Shelf life
The untouchables
Tonfa
Ursula K. Le Guin
VX
Yakuza
Zweihander

Today so far has been:

Bushmen
C Programing Language
Chevrolet Small-Block
Click Consonant
GM LS engine
GM premimum V engine
GM Vortec engine
Lisp
Lisp programing language
N!xau
Northstar
Oldsmobile Intrigue
Scheme programming language
The gods must be crazy
V8 engine
Ward's 10 best engines

Indianan Time Zone Fight

Daylight Saving Time was pitched to everybody in Indiana in a sleezy mannor. The idea was to reduce the costs other people would incure by having to keep up with what time it was in Indiana during the time switches each year. However, because this was all done in the legislature and not by popular vote there was no determination to what time Indiana would actually be on.

After the whole thing looked to be on the way of a large bomb Daniels sent the whole problem to the federal government to come up with a time zone plan.

Of course now by spliting Indiana down the middle makes the whole thing just as confusing as before and I doubt there will be any realized savings from it. So the whole thing was simply an exercise in bureaucrazy.