jim tropp

Dr. James Tropp is a brilliant scientist from GE that I have been working with a little in the last few years. He swears a lot, especially when things are not working. Some of his favorite expressions when things are not going well include: "what the fuck is this happy horseshit (he is talking to himself)" or "you fucking piece of shit (he is talking to the machine)". Needless to say, we get along pretty well. Yesterday we were doing some testing on this really complicate hardware setup for this new project we have been part of. And the piece of shit was just not working right. So I said to him: "this whole fucking thing will work when pigs fly." He replies without any hesitation: "then there will be pork on tree top." You might think it is kind of stupid (like I care) but I thought it was one of the funniest thing I ever heard. Well, bacon is not falling from the sky just yet.....

flying hog!!

NCAA tournament starts tomorrow. As I was making my picks, I just realized that iowa is in the tournament as a 3 seed, probably helped by the fact that they won the big 10 tournament over Ohio state. Iowa's mascot is the hawkeye. Now, just what the fuck is a hawkeye? Is it an eye of a hawk, and how the fuck is an eyeball good for a mascot? Iowa state's mascot is the cyclone, I guess they get tornado out there in the state of Iowa, so that makes a little bit of sense. Since Iowa has like way more pigs than human beings, wouldn't it make more sense for one of these school to have some shit like a flying hog as their mascot? That for sure beats the shit out of an eye from a stupid bird.