Monthly Archives: March 2010

HAIKU MONDAY: On Final Four, Wild Steelhead and Job Security in a Hiring-Freeze Market

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack has Butler and West Va. in the Final Four. In line to win$250 from the fellow hacks at the Fish Wrap, where not gambling on sporting events is considered a fireable offense. That makes Fish Hack a stellar employee. Gambling on sports:/ It’s more than second-nature./It’s Fish [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Anticipation. Trepidation. Aspirations.

Today’s three words all come from one source  — the annual passing of the piscatorial torch from one run of anadromous salmonids to another on Oregon’s Rogue River, Fish Hack’s home water. We’re talking the bloodless coupe when spring chinook salmon storm the Bastille and take reign from winter steelhead, which have laid claim to [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On March Madness, Bad Brackets and Hucked Fuskies.

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack has taken a brief hiatus from the Fish Wrap to take in a few rounds of March Madness in San Jose, Calif. Most of you might consider this acting like a fan. Fish Hack sees it as monitoring his investments. Teams ball, Fish Hack bets./Got coin on [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Abscond. Lubricant. Vasectomy.

Welcome back to Three-Word Thursday, where Fish Hack is about to abscond from the Fish Wrap for one of the singularly delightful pieces of fabric that is America. March Madness. Abscond. Lubricant. Vasectomy The rest of the world can get giddy over the World Cup, but no where else on the globe does an industrialized [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Top Picks, Cameo Cussing and Maggie on the Sticks

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is bowing in professional courtesy toward those Mad Men who gave us March Madness. Fish Hack does regular webinars on how to look engaged but not actually being productive at work. But the NCAA turns even the Amish into Bracketologists this week, which grinds this-here country’s economy [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Toxic. Phlegm. Donor.

Welcome back to Three-Word Thursday, where Fish Hack is busy polluting the cyber-Fish Wrap with what has disaffectionately been called The Medford Crud by those who are sick with this crap for a couple weeks at a time. Toxic. Phlegm. Donor. Raspy cough. Rancid throat, a 45-psi buildup in the nostrils. These are symptoms Fish [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Avatar, Rupert and Hack’s Expense Account

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is sharing some Oscar love with James Cameron. OK. So This-here cyber blog has got virtually nothing to do with Avatar. But, as fellow NewsCorp employees, we fill out the exact same expense accounts. Avatar?Fish Hack?/Can’t consider us the same./Hack can’t out-gr0ss Jim. You remember Haiku Monday. [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY:Historic. Reward. Nipple.

Welcome back to Three-Word Thursday, where Fish Hack is still waiting word from the Smithsonian guys as to whether they want to accept my donation of the sport coat I wore the day I interviewed for this-here racket at the Fish Wrap. It is, after all, historic garb:  It’s what I wore the day I [...]

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