Sighted downtown today, a young couple holding hands, with “matching” T-shirts.
Hers: “I always get what I want.”
His: “It’s all about me.”
This pair is surely destined for a long, happy life together.
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Destined for happiness
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A present I would rather have done without
Sunday, July 6th, 2008There has been a polite little family of mice sharing our house, aside from the domesticated variety safely ensconced in their aquarium. I call them polite because they never left droppings anywhere in plain sight, and because they resisted all human food, confining their snacking to the commercial mouse food in our bathroom closet and to the cat’s food bowl when she was otherwise engaged.
Unfortunately for them, she was not always otherwise engaged, and has been gradually reducing their number. And thus, we have found a series of little deceased rodents in various locations around the house, sometimes sans cranium. It seems that the cat does not care for the rest of the mouse.
Too clever by half, then not clever enough
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Upon our arrival in Cleveland last Friday afternoon after a three-day drive from Boston, we hastily emptied the car before the start of the Sabbath. Imagine my dismay to discover that the duffel bag containing all of my clothes was missing! I had put my clothes for the trip in my backpack, so that I wouldn’t have to take out the duffel until our arrival, but that of course meant that I never noticed it was missing.
I was dumbfounded. I was sure that I’d loaded all the bags into the car. I could imagine only three possible explanations, all of which were unpleasant: (1) I idiotically failed to load my duffel into the car; (2) I removed the duffel from the trunk at some point during the trip while accessing another bag, failed to put it back, and drove away without it; (3) we left the van unlocked and untended at some point during the trip and someone snatched the duffel.
Coining a new phrase
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007While discussing with my wife a product which is so poorly designed that it’s an absolute marvel that it made it to into manufacturing: “The team that designed this was definitely a few monkeys short of infinity.”
Bad customer service is bad for business
Monday, December 10th, 2007Shortly after I went after Sprint for horrendously bad customer service, their CEO stepped down as the company was about to announce yet another bad quarter.
Shortly after I went after Motorola for horrendously bad customer service and deceptive marketing, their CEO was replaced after the company announced another bad quarter.
This is not coincidence.
People unclear on the history of religions
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007Seen in a posting on-line from someone discussing the positive impact of taking regular breaks from one’s day-to-day routine:
“I guess Jesus knew what he was doing calling for the observance of the Sabbath…”
*sigh*
Why I was almost late to work this morning
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007Would you buy from these people?
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Seen this morning on a truck which claimed to be from a company called “Assorted Stone & Cabinet”:
”COVER CONNETICUT & MASSECHUSETTE”
There was also a lot of Chinese writing on the truck, so one might reasonably assume that the company is owned by people who are not native English speakers. Nevertheless, maybe they could have looked up how to spell the words they were painting?
Computers that feel pleasure
Sunday, July 15th, 2007Apparently, the United States Postal Service has made a remarkable breakthrough in artificial intelligence. This evening, I bought stamps from an USPS Automated Postal Center (APC) kiosk. As I was leaving after completing my purchase, the kiosk bid me farewell with the following message: “It was my pleasure to serve you.”
Remarkable!
FCC still can’t figure out what the hell to do about junk faxes
Sunday, July 15th, 2007I previously wrote about this in November 2005. Things have not improved. My newest attempt to shake things up:
