It must be Horny Sales Douche mating season or something. Do you suppose if I write "BUY NOW" in loud colors on a bottle of saline and throw it out the window, they will leave me alone for a while ( Read more... )

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Here's a kickass site I found: Jamendo. Download and share mp3s, free & legal, without worrying about keeping the RIAA out of your cornhole. All albums released under a Creative Commons license. (And they're actually pretty good!)

Sync on Green, or something to that effectI've long been bothered by an unparseable street sign ( Read more... )

My office is at the front of the building, with a large picture window overlooking a stunning view (okay, overlooking the Fire Lane and 2-story parking lot). So the building's comings and goings occasionally catch my attention ( Read more... )

My dearest MS Word,

Thank you again for a wonderful day. You know I've always loved your little quirks, like having to

ADelete all but the first character of a paragraph I'm replacing, then when I'm finished go back and delete the first character, because as punishment for deviating from this sequence you will change the entire paragraph to an ( Read more... )

So, I pop up from the lab and this horny sales rep has left me a voicemail. "Er, a while back I sampled you an LCD for a project you were working on, ah, just wanted to know, um, how that's working out you, what the status of your project is, ok, I guess just give me a call at..."

I fucking hate calls from sales reps. Not just because they want to ( Read more... )

Woo, long-ish hiatus from blogging. Anyway, since last "real" entry (non roommate rant, geeking, meme, etc.) some or all of the following have happened ( Read more... )

At work, our engineers occasionally (as in, all the damned time) field calls from marketing folk offering complimentary magazine subscriptions, as seems to be common practice. The magazines are supported by advertisers and at least vaguely related to our fields. EDN. ECN - with the 'C' styled to look like the 'D' in EDN flipped around backwards. ( Read more... )

A couple days ago I was talking to someone, and the subject of proper interview / work attire came up. Of course, there's a difference between "proper" and "what one can get away with"...the latter being a function of indispensibility. I quipped (not for the first time) that I could dye my hair blue if I wanted, because, what are they going to do, ( Read more... )

At work today we had a meeting in which we discussed toilets. We talk about toilets way too much.


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