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[fancycwabs]

• This morning when walking from the breakroom to my office I noticed a curious mechanical apparatus in what was formerly the server room (back when servers needed rooms and this place was a computer something company):
  
  I was later informed that it's a prototype piece of exercise equipment built by one of my coworkers, and in spite of the presence of unguarded finger-severing chain, we were welcome to give it a whirl. Supposedly it provides a complete cardio, strength, and flexibility workout in a mere four minutes. Updates as warrranted.


• Coletta's--the local restaurant credited with inventing barbecue pizza, which should assure their place in hell--has a flatbread-type-appetizer on their menu called "Foccacia," which sounds like an internal parasite or a venereal disease.


• Now that we've issued a bunch of drawings to the customer, the project managers are starting to second-guess the design. And just now, one phone call later, third guess back to the original concept. Huzzah!

Comments

[ikkarus01.livejournal.com]

Man, I bet the Inquisition would have loved to have had one of those.

[dimloep-suum.livejournal.com]

Are you not familiar with focaccia (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Focaccia-Bread/Detail.aspx)? 'Cause this isn't a new development.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

focaccia =/= foccacia.

[hatgrlstargazer.livejournal.com]

It's an Italian word with lots of c's, who's going to care if we get it exactly right? No one can pronounce it anyway.

(note: sarcasm born of having a husband whose last name is only a few letters different from focaccia, only with four c's. You probably didn't know that.)

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Fo KOSH ya, Fo kuh SEE ya
To MAY to, To MAH to
Let's call the whole thing off....

[roman-mclaze.livejournal.com]

Fo KOSH ya need an encounter suit.
Fo kuh SEE ya, but CHU cant see HIM.
U are sent ARE ee.

[fastlearner.livejournal.com]

Prototype built by a coworker, huh? Looks an awful lot like a ROM exercise machine to me: http://www.fastexercise.com/

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

He did remark that it was reverse-engineered from another piece of equipment with an expired patent. Considering the lack of chain guards on both of them, and the potential for dismemberment, I think most of the $14000 price tag is liability insurance.