Yesterday at work, we had to sit through 5 hours of presentations about what each group is working on. We have these days twice a year and the presentations are pretty boring.

The last time we did this, my supervisor wanted to spice things up a little bit, so he created the following PowerPoint slide of another co-worker.



The theme then was the Winter Olympics, and this time the theme was the '70s. My supervisor wants to make this a recurring event, so I showed the following slide:

The following results can be seen in this ESPN user poll.

5) Which quarterback should start for Cal?

32.6% Joe Ayoob
26.1% Steve Levy
25.6% Nate Longshore
15.7% Kyle Reed

So I'm assuming that most people who filled out this survey don't follow Cal football. Or at least I hope...

In 2004, Lee Corso predicted USC would win the national championship, and they did.
In 2005, Lee Corso predicted Texas would win the national championship, and they did.

For 2006?

He predicts Cal to win it all!

Can't wait for next Saturday's game at Tennessee...

Challenge proposed by: Basile Kuo

The challenge: I'm supposed to go one week without watching YouTube

Why?

Because he noticed that I stay up late and lose sleep in order to watch YouTube clips.

Pretty pathetic, I know. I guess the first step is admitting I have a problem, haha...

It was a long day without YouTube. Since it's back up, it's time to share some of my favorite videos, from each of the 5 types of videos I usually end up watching:

5) Pop culture spoofs

24 with Bobby Lee



4) Stand-up or sketch comedy

Tina Kim in Miss Fong's Chinese Restaurant. Stolen from Fuzz.



3) Music videos

Over 3 million people have seen the music video for Tupac's Changes on YouTube.



2) Sports highlights

Not a YouTube clip, but it does have a high-quality highlight package of Marshawn Lynch.

Marshawn Lynch for Heisman

1) TV clips

Classic Even Stevphen: Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert discuss medical marijuana

BJ Upton likes to throw out baserunners from the seat of his pants. He's now done it twice in the span of a few weeks.

He was playing shortstop in this first one, when he was in the minors.



He's now playing third base with the Devil Rays, and made the play against the A's on Friday night.

Basile likes to crack jokes when he writes e-mails to the KCPC mailing list.

It's usually funny and entertaining, but sometimes I feel like Lois in the following Family Guy clip:



"Please, please we can't take anymore schtick... please just tell us..."

Occasionally at work, we'll have taste tests of different products. Once we taste tested peanut butter cups, and another time we tried root beer.

I'm trying to think of things we could try in the future, but there are a few restrictions:

-We want it to be a blind taste test, so it can't be easily identifiable after the packaging is removed.
-It should cater to the vegetarians at our company.
-It should stay good at room temperature for at least an hour.

The best thing I could think of is cheesecake. In general, it seems like desserts would be best.

Anyone have any other good suggestions?

Spoofs on the Snickers ads:

Nugatabetes


Guteriffic


Fatassopolis


Lardacious

Hungerectomy


Nougatocity


Peanutopolis


Satisfectellent


But I can't find a picture of "Substantialicious" anywhere...

Congratulations to the KCPC Masters (35 & older) team for winning the Korea Times Bay Area softball tournament yesterday.


Award winners:

Best fan support: KCPC



MIP: Reverend Ryan (according to him, this stands for "Most Embarrasing Player")



Most Offensive Player (according to Basile): Deacon Sang Kong



More pictures on Basile's photo site.

As for the KCPC A & B teams, let's just say it wasn't our day...

The internet is useful for many things, such as finding solutions to random problems. For instance, if a bee stings you and you have some swelling, you can go online and find the best way to treat the swelling.

But because of the internet, stories like Chris' pee story will become harder and harder to find.

But there are still plenty of questions that we need to ask about this incident.

1) Why not use your own pee? Why do you need someone else's pee?
2) If you need someone else's pee, why do you need pee from 3 other people? Is one person's pee really not enough?
3) What happened to that bucket? Was it immediately thrown away, or was it just washed?
4) How long would the pee need to remain on your hand? And if it doesn't work instantly, how in the world would anyone know that urine reduces the swelling from a bee sting? Would someone really say, "I have to let the urine soak in for at least a couple hours, otherwise I won't really know if it works"?
5) At what point do you start thinking this is a really mean practical joke?

Hmm... the questions we fail to ask when we're 10 years old...