View From the Bushes

Looking around the IT department where I work, you would expect that most of the employees are not merely sedentary, but may in fact actually be comatose. Because of this, when the company introduced a fitness contest, they decided that the IT department needed something special, so in addition to the normal individual contest they implemented an additional contest between all of the various departments in IT. My initial reaction was "nice idea, but I don't think it will make much of an impact." I overlooked the fact that although none of my co-workers would be classified as fitness-buffs, that many if not most of them are enormously competetive.

To describe the competition which has developed as "heated" would do it an injustice -- "cut-throat" is far closer to the mark. Just a few minutes ago I wandered over to talk to a colleague in another group and someone in his group accused me of coming over just so I could spy on their exercise records. Sure he could have been kidding, but you never can tell. If I had the energy I might take this opportunity to seque into a discussion of how it is precisely this trait which makes capitalism work so well, but that's a pretty big jump even for me.

With respect to the Lori Hacking case, for a while the police have been saying that credible witnesses told them that Mark had confessed to killing his wife. I had wondered who this witness(es) might be and why the police were willing to believe what they said. It has come out since then that it was Mark's brother's who gave the police the information. One would think that the brothers would have no reason to make up that sort of information so I guess it must be pretty credible. I'm not sure how Mark feels about his brothers ratting him out. I suppose it's possible that he already has such a deep sense of remorse that he's glad; if that's the case I guess one would hope that the state might be a little bit more lenient.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross