Woo, the regular season is over in FNBA, and my HaroDragoons finished 140-66-4 (winning percentage of .676), good enough for first place. Lebron was the man all season long, and the team finished 7.5 games ahead of the second place team. Also important, Ender’s MoolaFraggers team held on for the 5th place spot (top 6 go to playoffs), in spite of incredible parity in the 3-7 seeds. My team has a bye this week before playing the winner of the (4) Panty Dropper Patrol vs. (5) MoolaFraggers matchup, so here’s to hoping for an all-Sea Slugs matchup in the second round.
And for those of you who care, here’s some thoughts on the regular FNBA season, based on draft picks, and important pickups:
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Here’s a great absurd article about how being a guild leader in World of Warcraft can make you an effective manager.
Guilds routinely splinter over petty squabbles and other basic failures of management; the master must resolve them without losing valuable members, who can easily quit and join a rival guild. Never mind the virtual surroundings; these conditions provide real-world training a manager can apply directly in the workplace.
LOLOL real-world training, yes. Like how having friends provides real world training for the workplace.
And that’s exactly what Gillett is doing. He accepted Yahoo!’s offer and now works there as senior director of engineering operations. “I used to worry about not having what I needed to get a job done,” he says. “Now I think of it like a quest; by being willing to improvise, I can usually find the people and resources I need to accomplish the task.” His story - translating experience in the virtual world into success in the real one - is bound to become more common as the gaming audience explodes and gameplay becomes more sophisticated. The day may not be far off when companies receive résumés that include a line reading “level 60 tauren shaman in World of Warcraft.”
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy playing WoW too, and I have been in guilds, but this is such an overstatement, it’s just crazy. At least it gives new meaning to the “daily grind”.
/abandonquest
Wow, another sweet article, this time about Walgreens pharmacists writing what they really think about you in the notes field of their database.
Less than a month after a Palm Beach woman sued Walgreens for labeling her CrAzY!!” and “psycho” in its nationwide computer system, two more Floridians have come forward with similar allegations.
A Palm Beach Gardens grandmother, 64, filed suit Wednesday, accusing the retail chain of negligent supervision and intentional infliction of emotional distress for typing in its system in May 2003: “WATCH CONTROLS SHE SEEMS SHADY.”
Clearly the problem is that whoever is entering the data is putting it in the incorrect field. This information should be entered into the InsultPatrons table. It’s a training issue. And maye a capslock issue, too.
When Cutler finally went into the store on March 14 she discovered that the initials B.D.A. were those of head pharmacist Adams. She confronted Adams, she said, but he told her someone must have used his initials to somehow log into the system.
“But then he admitted that you needed a password to get in … and he blew me off and walked away,” said Cutler, who now uses another pharmacy chain.
LOL. But in all seriousness, nice work suing them. The evidence shows it wasn’t just one person entering in this data as an isolated incident, and the implications of the insults are pretty substantial.
I’m not huge on celeb gossip, but I do love when tidbits show up in various Sports Guy articles.
Rob (Stamford, CT): I originally felt bad for Nick Lachey when he found out Jessica was cheating on him … but I must admit, I think Kristen from Laguna Beach is an upgrade? She’s also about 6 years younger — do you agree?
Bill Simmons: (1:47 PM ET ) I think he’s a legend. What better way to get revenge on your ex after she slept with the guy from Maroon 5 then to sleep with a younger, dumber, hotter version of her? That must have driven Jessica nuts. I like Nick Lachey now, I want to hang out with him.
Awesome, especially when combined with Drew Lachey’s big dancing win. Yeah Team Lachey!
Sports | Kabitzin 3/27/2006 | 
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