November 2, 2006
Sanjay and Charles Present the New Rikers Islanders Jersey!
Sanjay Kumar should be very familiar with the workings of a prison judging by the way Computer Associates (CA) runs its acquisitions and its company. During our ASK/INGRES acquisition, he challenged us to leave and lose our jobs if we didn't like CA. Many top developers stood up and walked out and had jobs the next day at competing RDBMS companies just a few miles away. Sanjay forgot that Silicon Valley was not like CA headquarters, Islandia, New York, where the nearest successful businesses at the time were a Hooters restaurant and a barbershop specializing in 80s-styled Long Island mullets.
I stayed on at Computer Associates and administered employee reviews whereby you were forbidden to write anything positive about employees. You could only verbally praise to avoid litigation. I stayed on and watched as employees were fired on the spot for nodding off at cult-like company meetings sometimes held offshore on cruise ships to avoid a break in the brainwashing.
Me, bitter? Nah!
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Nice Photoshop chops, Eric!
Posted by: lainie at November 10, 2006 8:31 AM
In high school, during the Iran hostage crisis, Kumar wore a t-shirt that read "I am not Iranian". Maybe there's a market among South Asian IT workers for a shirt that says "I am not Sanjay Kumar".
Posted by: The Sanity Inspector at April 18, 2007 2:22 PM
October 19, 2006
Mark Foley Turning a New Page!
I understand that Mark Foley has entered a rehabilitation clinic in the hopes of turning a new page. I wonder if he realizes that there are no pages to turn at the clinic and that, lacking a page program, this is one clinic that does not insert foleys?
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October 12, 2005
Police maintain innocence in New Orleans beating
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 12 (SATIRE) - In a press conference broadcast on CNN, reporters asked a lawyer for the officers accused of brutalizing Robert Davis, a black 64-year-old retired teacher, whether the three white officers had administered Miranda rights to Davis. Perhaps misunderstanding the question, Frank DeSalvo answered reporters "I can assure you that not only did they administer rights, but several left jabs to the head and a few crunching uppercuts, as well!"
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September 11, 2005
Download a Song to Provide Hurricane Katrina Relief
I have made my song, Mercy, available for download. I will donate the proceeds to the Red Cross. Watching the Katrina coverage made me wish that there was more that I could do. This is an effort to raise more funds than I was able to donate on my own when the levees first broke and swamped New Orleans, and Katrina's storm surge swept away so many Gulf towns. To check it out, please go to http://www.ericdelore.com/katrina.html.
The cost of the download is $2.00. I will forward $1.50 of each download to the Red Cross. Nearly all of the remaining 50 cents goes to transaction fees. I have clips in various formats of the song up there so you can hear a bit before downloading it.
If this approach does not appeal to you, another alternative is to go to https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp and donate directly to the Red Cross.
Thank you very much. New Orleans and the South have given so much to us musically. Here is a chance to let music give something back.
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September 1, 2005
How You Can Help Hurricane Katrina Victims
I have heard that the best way to help is through a monetary contribution to the America Red Cross:
Click to donate!
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January 7, 2005
How You Can Help Tsunami Victims
You can help survivors and their families by making monetary donations to these organizations:
- American Red Cross International Response Fund
- AmeriCares South Asia Earthquake Relief Fund
- Direct Relief International International Assistance Fund
- Médecins Sans Frontières International Tsunami Emergency Appeal
- Oxfam Asian Earthquake & Tsunami Fund
- Sarvodaya Relief Fund for Tsunami Tragedy
- UNICEF South Asia Tsunami Relief Efforts
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October 9, 2004
Kennan's Dream Gig
One of my favorite bass players, Kennan Shaw, just got back from a dream gig in Lugano, Switzerland playing the Blues to Bop festival. He got paid to go to Europe and play. Yow! Looks like he had some nice digs. A far cry from some of the dives we played together back home. Nice to see him getting some sweet shows these days.
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