Caller: So I have an appointment in *city* tomorrow with this place? They do the stuff you do before you get a job? Can you tell me what time it is ( Read more... )

If you call for tech support, and you ask what time the office closes, and your call takes forever because you don't know the basics of how to do sweet fucking ANYTHING? When you finally get your resolution ten minutes after the closing time, you may safely assume that the person you're talking to, on a Friday, after closing time, does not want to ( Read more... )

Twenty years after the popularization of the Internet, I am allowed to make fun of stuff like this. Admin Coworker took a phone call the other day from a user who wanted to know if she could access our site at night ( Read more... )

Lowering the Bar: Reasonable Consumer Would Know "Crunchberries" Are Not Real, Judge Rules

Yes. Yes, someone actually sued because Crunchberries are:
"in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls, and that although the product did contain some strawberry fruit concentrate, it was not otherwise redeemed by fruit.  She sued, on behalf of herself and ( Read more... )

I just realized I have no idea if the Roman numerals in the title are correct or not. I also don't care.

Indented to make sense of the paragraph breaks, hopefully. Yes, I did say paragraph breaks.

Fifteen minutes with someone on the phone screaming and bitching because we hadn't picked up on three consecutive days. The reason for the failure on ( Read more... )

Ever hear an odd or unexpected sound, that you can identify nonetheless? I've done this at least twice: the first time I identified the sound of party mix being poured into a bowl (startling poor Steve by calling out "Oh, hey! I forgot we had party mix!") and tonight, when we heard a loud sound from the kitchen. I said "It sounds like the cutting ( Read more... )

The weather has not gotten appreciably better, here. There's either rain or freezing rain outside, I don't particularly want to look.

I made chicken masala for dinner tonight. Delish. I swear, I could be happy just sitting and breathing in the smell of garam masala all day.

Right way to schedule a return ( Read more... )

My tower is finally back up and running. I gave in and formatted the drive. It runs much better now, although like a noob I forgot to back up my bookmarks. What really makes this inexcusable is that I have an account with Delicious. A few clicks and they would have been saved. I think I might have an old backup folder on my secondary drive ( Read more... )

Yes, yes, fell off the world with these again. Sorry. I've been having troubles on my main computer, and I keep forgetting to bring the Book upstairs so I can transcribe entries via my laptop. Mostly this is because I don't really need the stress release of the entries any more - I don't deal with customers directly any more, and there's usually a ( Read more... )

*drags self back over the edge of the world* Hey. Sorry 'bout that ( Read more... )