Live Blogging Coverage from my Desk

Cinco De Mayo

10:00 Imagineering Company morning meeting in Spanish Espanol.

10:02  Complimentary tequila lattes for all employees.

10:04 Julie stuffs the company piñata with candied Scrabble pieces.

10:07 Susan becomes mesmerized by the fact that the computer automatically puts that squiggly line above the n in piñata without asking it to.

10:10 Susan continues to type piñata over and over again.

12:00 Julie and Susan take turns verbally lashing the piñata until  contents burst out.

12:18 Susan introduces new product idea— Word Piñatas™.

12:20 Julie Pinstagrams it.

1:02 Susan fixates on her dislike of mayo. It threatens her ability to concentrate and temporarily derails plans for mass-producing Word Piñatas™.

1:05 Mayo free lunch break.

1:22 Julie checks out her social status on Klout.com

2:02 Susan tries to convince Julie to start a movement called Ocho de Mayo.

2:03 Julie responds with blank stare.

2:04 Susan acknowledges victory.

2:07 Phone rings. Who will answer it first?

Live Blogging Coverage from my Desk—May 1, 2012

Occupy Imagineering May Day Celebration Protest

10:00 Imagineering Company assembles outside of office.

10:02 Julie rallies Susan with inspiring speech.

10:03 Susan listens attentively but gets distracted as evidenced by this blog which she is writing simultaneously.

10:35 Julie leads company forum on slogan development for May Day Posters.  

11:35 Susan uses crowd sourcing app to raise funds for lunch.

12:00 Lunch break.  

12:35 Susan delivers an emotionally charged speech to Julie about the dangers of using too many overinflated, superannuated words…and anything in ALL CAPS.  

1:18 Julie corrects Susan’s spelling and syntax.

1:19 Susan is amazed by Julie’s ability to hear misspellings.

1:20 Susan gets sidetracked by the homonyms: syntax and sin tax.

2:00 Cops arrive on the scene and disemvowel the crowd. They impose capitalization punishment.

3:00 Susan and Julie take the Occupy Imagineering Pledge

promising to only use 99% of all words and casting off the other 1%.

3:02 Susan publically apologizes for 2:00 blog entry.

1:45  Solidarity march against the thesaurus in Union Square and some light window shopping.

3:30 Julie leads participants in chant: Write makes right.

3:59 Phone rings.

4:00 Conference call with client.