More like 1989, actually. Or even 1984. I’m putting the final touches on two cases (one on Pemex, one on the Iraqi oil industry) with a little blue pen on paper printouts, drinking Busch Light from a can, and switching between MTV Hits (you know, which still plays videos) and the Pittsburgh-Chicago game. Break was eating my wife’s wonderful noodles. After a week where sleep really has been optional, this is the way to work.
One way in which digital technology is inferior to the old is in channel switching. Analog cable televisions would go bam! instantaneously from one channel to another, especially if you had one of those multiswitch remotes that plugged into the set. These new ones take a few annoying seconds to make the change. Strangely, I find myself disappointed to know that said new inconvenience will not be a permanent part of the future’s video experience.
Anyway, I had to turn on the internet and ruin it all. Thus, this post. More on the Canadian oil industry forthwith, but I need to finish these two cases. Sometimes deadlines are hard, even in academia.
Whatcha y’all doin’ on this not-so-lazy Sunday, gentle readers?
I won a three-game parlay on a combo of Buffalo, Baltimore, and San Francisco, so I'm spending like a Mexican president in the last year of his sexenio.
(Sorry if I come off as a braggart, it's just that I hardly ever win...)
Shouldn't sportsbooks be legal everywhere?
Posted by: pc | September 20, 2009 at 08:37 PM
Yes, yes it should.
Congratulations!
Posted by: Noel Maurer | September 20, 2009 at 08:39 PM
I had folks over and drank entirely too much.
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero | September 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM
The Saturday evening was a complete mystery.
The Sunday afternoon was the time for the afterglow.
Also, my article about the community of Polish guest workers that has emerged on the nuclear construction site on the Finnish West Coast was published!
Cheers,
J. J.
Posted by: Jussi Jalonen | September 22, 2009 at 12:18 PM