I went to the website of cyber Yugoslavia and became a member. Chose the title of Secretary of language.
The CFO announced a foosball tournament two days ago. Keeping with the image of a fuzzy young software company, and having enough space, they took one room near the big cubicle farm to be a club, and had a foosball table there. As one of the older guys said about one young jerk, „did you see how good he is - it's all in a wrist, you can see that the wrist saw a lot of practice“.
Brlja emailed me, asking for the full source and the list of tables in what Rick uses (couldn't email him directly, probably the money that they got for their english lessons wasn't enough).
Rich called today about that kid and I just emailed Ford about it. They know each other from before, I dunno why he's going through me. On the other hand, Ford's sons have brought several crates of soft drinks (i.e. sodas, mostly cokes and such, plus some mountain dew) and "we through them around the ground and kicked them" as they said (I guess „through“ should be „threw“). To which one guy, previously emplyed here but, being Canadian, ran into trouble with the INS, so.
..Pursuant to a request from the legal counsel for Zero ("Zero"), I will not communicate with any employee of . Except for this message, I will not respond to contacts from Zero personnel. Zero's counsel is copied on this message. Sincerely, and with apologies for this non-response,...
Actually, Janna announced five days ago that the pop („soft drinks“) won't be sold at 25 cents a can, but will be free for the office, just don't take them home, that's for worktime. So what they brought was not their treat, it was Zero's. And they mounted some contraption on the doorframe to crush the cans, as they'd overfill the garbage bags' capacity in a day. It compresses them to the size of a small 42g pašteta. The trouble is the loud crrracck when the metal wrinkles... and my desk was about three meters away. When they begin crushing them in dozens... there, try to concentrate.
And if it were only the noise, but they went to microwaved popcorn. Just like I didn't get it how can they like corn on the cob with butter (I even asked Felix how can you eat that with butter, and he promptly asked back, how can I eat it without), ditto for popcorn. Except it's not really butter, it's some chemical which almost resembles it. Feeling the stench from the kitchen several times a day, I quickly learned to detest it. Later I heard that the guy in the factory, who was working on a huge vat of that chemical, died of cancer. He did sue the factory to pay his medical bills, but he got hollow nose to his eyes*.
Vanji - several emails, about how Avai is doing financially (mild profit, less than the last year). Their new website should be up in two days, hosted by Škrba's employer. The meeting of the board was supposed to include me (I still own 40% of it) but then it didn't happen. Cica did try to contact me about it, and Brlja was getting ready for some fight, but it came to nothing.
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* another expression would be „full dick of cold water“
17-X-2013 - 18-II-2026