Other than being FDR’s famous last words, what the heck kind of a phrase is that?! Yes, I do realize that terrific comes from terror and originally meant something that terrorizes and inspires dread, but that definition has long fallen out of the modern parlance - much like fantastic is no longer commonly used to describe something outlandish and ( Read more... )

I am in the middle of a huge project for work, compiling and editing all of our company’s policies and procedures and putting them in a common format. This would be a lot easier project if we had policies and procedures. What we have instead are a few policies and a lot of memos and emails telling people how they should be doing things now that are ( Read more... )

All of my FaceBook jokes about mariachi radio stations lurking, ready for the attack aside, listening to the radio as we travel up the coast is a joy for the simple reason that the further up the 101 we go, the further we get from Clear Channel’s dominance. This is not to say that there are no Clear Channel stations in Santa Barbara and SLO ( Read more... )

...From a text conversation with Mortgaged.

Being in bed is the antithesis of being on fire:

How is your day going?

It could be worse. I could be on fire.
It could be better. I could be in bed.

This sort of turns the whole glass is half full/half empty thing inside out. Why yes, I am optimistic in my pessimism, thank you very much.

Accounting spends a great deal of time trying to coral and organize me. I understand why. They need me to get them invoices and our month end financial reports at particular times so that they can do their jobs. The problem is that accounting is but a very small part of what I do, no one else on the team does it at all (though they are going to ( Read more... )

Why are so many companies choosing to use completely unappealing spokes-characters in their advertising these days? The new Toyota Sienna couple are the sort of obnoxious, materialistic, full of themselves, children as accessories, people most of us try to avoid as often as possible. The AT&T roll over minutes Mom is shrill and neurotic. Not to ( Read more... )

Cross posted from that other, not nearly as good as LJ, place:

We already have our dystopian future and it's full of sci fi gadgets - I swear my phone is the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Ma & Pa Kettle can buy a 2 terabyte external hard drive at Costco - so where's my flying car already? Literature and Hollywood promised the future would be ( Read more... )

Not surprising at all I imagine is the fact that I loathe the emergency loan modification ads more than any others.

Yes, come pay our team of vultures with law degrees money for something your bank is not legally allowed to charge you for. Because, of course, no one could possibly get a loan modification on their own.

Never mind the fact that the ( Read more... )

Given the nature of local residents - those with two feet and those with four feet - and the quality of the noises one hears at night around here, sometimes at my house you have to ask.

As part of their Halloween ad campaign, Party City has a new commercial featuring children in Halloween costumes dancing to Thriller. Really? What's next, Michael Vick in a Petco commercial?

While certainly not the tackiest thing ever, I think that this is, at a minimum, Failblog.org worthy.