blog commenters are a g.i.f.t.
This sort of G.I.F.T., that is. (y’know, if that strip weren’t so accurate, I wouldn’t refer to it so darn much) I was just taking a little break to catch up on my RSS feeds and I saw the following...
Tagged: people
It says, ‘Please do not press this button again.’
Today I discovered that years of dealing with it has still not caused this pet peeve to go away. The call button is lit, I know it’s lit because I pushed it. Do you, kind stranger, believe that I am...
City moments
Last night I made the stupid mistake of not factoring in HWB (hailing while black) time when trying to get a cab from Halo to Firefly for dinner. All told about 9 cabs (with no fares inside and with their...
you can’t please ’em
Ah Metro, Metro, Metro… nice try, I’ll grant you that. It was a good effort putting cameras in the regular rail cars and having employees monitor passenger habits for months to see how to improve upon the rail car design....
It’s like a drug you use to give your life meaning…
If there is anything I truly need to learn to do, it’s to not look in the box. Listen more to good Brian instead of evil Brian on my shoulders (barely indestinguishable from each other, except that good Brian’s cranberry...
People suck. My bowling doesn’t.
My scores tonight: 125, 150, 214. I really do enjoy bowling and I wasn’t sure about joining a league because it’s a lot of bowling, it’s not cheap on weekly and membership fees and it’s weekly committment for a few...
quick pet peeve
This just popped back to the front of my mind while IMing with Serge. People need to stop casually using the word rape when what they often mean is that they were inconvenienced. While I’m sure that none of my...
Here’s the deal…
Dear customer service representative, counter rep, cashier, etc.: I promise not to turn into a fussy, irate, high maintenance customer, if you at least present yourself as someone that knows how to do their job or finds me someone that...
mini-newsround
Captain Obvious is about to put Captain Gaydar out of a job this week: Lance Bass: I’m gay Ex-Savage Garden Singer Darren Hayes Weds Partner Well um, “duh” to the both of those. And Lance is dating Reichen Lehmkuhl —...