The biggest lie our computers tell us is "Less than a minute remaining."

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For consideration: the second biggest lie is everything else a computer says

Fax machines that print out a message confirmation that, oh by the way, includes a photocopy of the document you were faxing.

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For consideration: because nobody ever faxes, you know, personal info in an office environment

"Do you know what the opposite of knowledge is?" the wise man asked ( Read more... )

D. comes stalking up the hallway from his office, fists clenched. "I'm going to kick someone in the balls," he says, cooly, evenly. "What's their name?" I ask. "It doesn't matter," he replies as he goes by, and just like that I have an idea ( Read more... )

"Kill." takes place in a Togo's sandwich shop.HER: Do you want everything on that ( Read more... )

I see him weaving back and forth across the lanes as he comes up from behind, determined to muscle his way through traffic at a good ten or fifteen miles an hour faster than the rest of us. Dark SUV, of course; it's always an SUV or a BMW. At least he's making the pretense of using his signal as he "changes" (read: slaloms across) lanes ( Read more... )