Really, just...think before you speak. Unless you know someplace that just started hiring and you want to tell me about it, I've probably heard it before.
( This got surprisingly long. )

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... )

Before you call for information/tech support, you have to prove you can do at least three out of the following four things:

1. Give a reasonably cohesive statement of who you are and why you're calling, instead of rambling off a vague statement with no way for me to identify who you are and what you want.
2. Have some idea - even the vaguest! - of how to ( Read more... )

Something I do not miss about living in NS: You are granted less personal space in public. Seriously, one of the things that amazed me when I moved to Moncton was I could walk through the maul at it's most crowded (something I try to avoid, but I had to make an emergency run for work clothes) and not get bumped into about every two minutes. I had ( Read more... )

A Conservative majority government. What the hell were people thinking? I need a stronger curse word than fuck.

Canada, did we just reward a party that was held in contempt of Parliament with a majority?! What the hell is this? OK, the final tally isn't in (the polls in BC close 30 min from now) and the numbers are from CBC not Elections Canada, but it isn't looking too good. Argh!

Just a few mild rants here.

Please remember where your characters are when you use the word 'floor'. 'Floor' implies an artificial surface, one found in or on a structure. If your characters are inside, they are standing on the floor, or a synonym thereof. If they are outside they are standing on the ground. Or the dirt, leaf mold, moss, grass, ( Read more... )

Lowering the Bar: Class Action Alleges Guacamole Dip Was Insufficiently Avocadoey

OK, so it's a few years old, dating from November 2006, but it does feed my newly created theory of People Have Too Much Damn Time On Their Hands.

Let's break this down. Class Action. Guacamole. Insufficient Avacadoeyness. Idiot suing megacorporation (Kraft). Definitely ( Read more... )

Condoms won't stop spread of AIDS, says Pope

Because just slowing it down wouldn't be good enough?


( Read more... )

Last night, for the first time in my life, I was comped a free meal at a restaurant.

Five of us had gone out to dinner at a local chain restaurant. The restaurant was not busy, but it was still some time before a server came to visit us. I'm pretty sure the girl we got was not assigned to our table, especially since the tables around us were served ( Read more... )