Tuesday, July 15, 2003

It is probably about 90 here in the office right now. On one hand, this is a good thing... the house we've put an offer on has no air conditioning. On the other hand, this is a bad thing. You sweat profusely. I should ask to have my chair steam-cleaned after the air conditioning is fixed. Anyhow, we had a sign on the door for awhile saying "Please do not tell us it's hot in here. We know." Our office was hotter than the rest of the offices and people would come in and point this fact out to us and it just made it feel even hotter. Well, we took the sign down because we thought it was too sarcastic. But, several people today have taken it upon themselves to come in and point out that fact.

Which totally reminded me of this quote.

"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about." -- Douglas Adams

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