Not sure what to think of this one… Is it a joke? Hmm, no. Pure stupidity?
Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data:
When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss’s phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.
So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years’ worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
As it turned out, the company wasn’t even looking to replace her. Well, now she does not have that job anymore. So, technically speaking, now she is really to be replaced. Maybe Mrs. Cooley had a vision of the future happenings, couldn’t tell them apart from reality and therefore went into action, laying the foundations for her own fate’s dispiteous fulfillment.
Cryptic letters & numbers getting together, outburst. What’s difficult to understand, that is quite libido. Try to think straight, walk slowly and run backwards before turning your back where it should be in the first place, without the help of a musician, that is. Concerts listen to radios during television commercials, because they don’t have anything else to do. They don’t have to go take a piss. Rather, they would very much love to take a dive in the fresh-clear-blue water of the Caribbean, where birds are flying in the sky, then shooting down like a misguided rocket: into the water. They can dive. What do you think? It is jumpily jumping from sentence to sentence, don’t mention the truth; it would send them away into a world too dark to be. In addition, cold. Keywords have power beyond imagination. Phrases, not so much. The reasoning behind this: eluded me. Don’t be too smart, Cola-Boy. You’ve got to go on the toilet, too. Special is a kind word to use=wisely. Apologize for the aforementioned. The word count is all that counts. Beyond imagination.
On a Stallone-related note: I’ve always said that Sylvester Stallone has a good sense of arts and he certainly is a very good writer. After all, he is the person who wrote the first Rocky movie and his sense for business told him to not negotiate the fact that he wanted to play the lead role himself. When Stallone was young, he made himself the Hollywood star he is today. Without his passion for movies and his dedication he would not have been where he is today. Anyway, what I actually wanted to write:
Stallone has written a script for the movie Poe about the legendary American writer. He confirmed that he had sent the script to several directors, including movie legends Stanley Kubrick, William Friedkin and Roman Polanski, but it seems that nobody wanted to make it. Now, Stallone is directing the movie himself. Poe is scheduled for a release in 2009. Viggo Mortensen is rumored to portray Edgar Allan Poe.
The new Rambo movie is out and, although I’ve not seen it yet, I’ve only heard good things about it: Bloodiest movie ever, even bloodier than the first three Rambo installments combined. If you think that’s not good, here’s my take on it: That’s the old-fashioned 80s-style killing machine action movie I want to see! No PG-13 movies that have been cut because of producers who want to make more money from audiences as big as possible. Give the R-rated movies back to the adult audience they belong to. Make it bloody, make it terrible to watch. In short: make it an extreme experience! Only this way you will be able to achieve what David Cronenberg has already successfully done with A History of Violence: You make the audience feel bad, you make them think and leave them puzzled about the fact that they can actually find joy in the torturing and killing of other people. Make them feel guilty and sick for having cheered for the bloodshed in the movie they’ve just watched.
Microsoft’s net jumped 79% since last year because of the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007. Demand has been high for both software products, hence boosting Microsoft’s quarterly revenue to more than $16 billion.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz speaks about his book “Making Globalization Work”. This is a very good book I’ve read lately, and it is an important book. Many people might doom globalization for making the poor countries worse off, only making the rich countries richer. But that is not true. Unlike almost anything else that has happened in the past 50 years, globalization has provided great means for people to communicate, colaborate and help each other. If the fruits of globalization haven’t arrived in many poor countries yet, that’s not the fault of globalization itself. It is due to poor political systems and poor leadership in those respective countries. It is because of corrupt politicians in Africa, for example, who do their best to close the rich countries out, so that they can continue to make money off the poor and become more powerful themselves. Globalization is a powerful tool that can make everyone better off. The only question is, how long will it take for every human being to realize the great opportunity we’re presented, and: What is necessary to do to make globalization work?
How can this happen? The Paris-based bank Societe Generale SA said unauthorized bets on stock index futures by one of their traders caused a $7.2 billion trading loss, the largest in banking history. The trader responsible for this unfortunate loss was 31-year old Jerome Kerviel. The multi-billion dollar loss amounts to about two years of pretax profit at the bank’s investment banking unit. Societe Generale now wants to sue the trader, although I highly doubt he will be able to come up with so much money. He had earned less than $100,000 a year and had been with the bank since 2000. In addition, the bank wants to fire five other of its employees. More at Bloomberg…
The Australian-born actor Heath Ledger was found dead at a Manhattan apartment, which is believed to be his home in Soho, at around 3:30 pm Tuesday afternoon. He was 28. NYPD says it might have been a drug-related death; pills were found by the bed. Ledger had an appointment for a massage. The housekeeper found him dead when he came to inform him about the masseuse’s arrival. No evidence of suicide, even if his death is indeed related to the sleeping pills found near his body.
He is here in London filming the latest episode of the “Batman” franchise, “The Dark Knight.” (Mr. Bale, as it happens, plays Batman; Mr. Ledger plays the Joker.) It is a physically and mentally draining role — his Joker is a “psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy” he said cheerfully — and, as often happens when he throws himself into a part, he is not sleeping much.
“Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,” he said. “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.” One night he took an Ambien, which failed to work. He took a second one and fell into a stupor, only to wake up an hour later, his mind still racing.
Ledger was a very talented actor, probably best known for his role in Brokeback Mountain. He just recently wrapped filming on the next Batman sequel The Dark Knight (he played the Joker). Filming of The Dark Knight is finished, but it is still in post-production, so the film might still be impacted by the actor’s passing.
This is the first of three pieces of a trilogy I wrote over the past two years. The first two stories, including this very short one, were written at the beginning of January 2006. In fact, I wrote Die Spielstraße exactly two years ago on Jan 23, 2006. I didn’t really intend to publish the three stories as a trilogy, but I somehow felt they belonged to each other. They’re not connected by the same story. Somehow, though, they might share a similar topic, deep in, somewhere to be found.
Piece Two of Three will be published two years after its completion: February 12, 2008. Piece Three of Three, completed in 2007, will be released not so long into the future on March 01, 2008.
(By the way, I’d like to thank S. for having featured this short story on his blog.)
