Things I didn't know and/or don't wanna know
(sometimes known as an Imitation Link Salad)
I never would have guessed
dame_julie existed. And I found it on an LJ query for "authors". Cute icons. Lots and lots of 'em.
Really, this exchange was too funny! (Read only if you play WoW.) (No, I really do not want to know what my character choice says about me. Remember, I have Immolate level 6.)
I want to sleep in my backyard, too!
And, I'm not going to beef here about the Gateway laptop we bought. It was really stoopid to buy a Gateway, ok? Just ... don't ... do it.
But if you know of any good sites to post beefs about giant corporations who offshore customer service and train them to run you through circular logic telling you to do exactly what you told them you want to but cannot do ... let me know.
Actually, if I thought it would help, I'd sure go for it -- try to raise some awareness, use that consumer vote of the almighty dollar, whatever. But I think that if you buy electronics or software from a corporation you're pretty much stuck (replace with explective if you are over 18) these days. And with our food, and our toys, and ... well, is there anything we DON'T offshore?
Sometimes I wish I had Immolate level anything in real life.
I told my beloved today that we are, unfortunately, living our lives on the cusp of two very different worlds. My kids are growing up in a global economy. In spite of my random attempts at gardening, they really don't know that food comes anywhere but from a grocery store. They are a generation of computer whisperers and continent-hoppers. They are serfs in a post-modern feudalist world. (Huh, I like that term. See final chapter in this TOC.) On the other side is the world that experienced computers as rooms full of tubes, the internet was a radical sci fi concept, and international travel as a somewhat rare, extended, expensive proposition.