Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in complaints, food, site news, troubleshooting on Feb 21st, 2007
I wrote a new page today detailing some of the places I like to eat. It isn’t a regular post since I intend to update it periodically when I try new places or dishes. Damn you Alton Brown for creating a television show named after a phrase I use regularly!
One irritation with pages (which I [...]
Posted in complaints, conspiracies, humor, office, web sites on Feb 14th, 2007
I dislike today.
Partially because the snow plow (which didn’t bother coming by until early afternoon) piled up a foot worth of ice in front of my driveway (which I had taken great efforts to clear mere hours ago) which I had to re-clear before I could get my car in the driveway. Partially because it’s [...]
Posted in cars, complaints on Feb 10th, 2007
In the midst of running errands today a shopping cart decided to become unlodged from the sidewalk that it was perched on, falling over into my rear passenger-side door. There was a loud thump and a some cursing on my part. I parked my car and took a quick peek at the rear door; some [...]
Posted in complaints, food, idiots, oddities, the system on Feb 7th, 2007
I noticed one of most absurd things today while enjoying a HERSHEY’s Milk Chocolate bar with my lunch. There is text printed on the plastic wrapper instructing the user (or eater, I guess) how to open it! This is yet another sign that the system as we know it is going to hell. It’s right [...]
Posted in complaints, idiots, office, the system on Feb 1st, 2007
One of the wonders of working a nine to five sort of job is getting reimbursed for things. I don’t have a lot of luck when it comes to the reimbursement paperwork. There’s never a simple one for me; I almost always get the paperwork returned to me.
About two weeks ago I buy two packages [...]
Posted in complaints, google, oddities, software, technology, troubleshooting, web sites on Jan 28th, 2007
I use Mailman to provide mailing list services to friends, family, and non-profit groups in addition to running a few administrative lists. Doing so has recently exposed a problem with Gmail’s mail delivery.
Posted in complaints, culture, humor, idiots on Jan 21st, 2007
Load your car to the hilt with children who are incapable of caring for themselves. If you don’t have enough to fill your car, borrow some of the neighbors kids. Double park your car diagonally in between two parking spaces while you shop; your busted-ass Pontiac deserves it, plastic spinning rims and all. Toss your [...]
Posted in complaints, housing, oddities on Jan 10th, 2007
My annual Front Foot Benefit invoice arrived last week. For those unfamiliar, some of us Maryland peeps have to pay for the “construction & installation of water & sewer systems” that are connected to our homes. Do we pay the County? No. The State? No. I pay some company that paid the $7,200 up front [...]
Posted in boozing, complaints, culture, housing, idiots on Jan 6th, 2007
Some friends from college and a few others came by last night to have a few drinks and revel. It had been a warm night, but there was a pleasant breeze. We had left a window cracked in the front of the house to provide some circulation. Same for the the sliding door in the [...]
Posted in complaints, money on Dec 30th, 2006
Chase just made an amendment to the terms of my Visa account. According to the summary of changes, “in calculating finance charges, the date when transactions are added to your daily balances and begin to accrue periodic finance charges will be as early as the transaction date.”
What the hell?
In the past, there’s always been a [...]
Posted in complaints, culture, idiots, office on Dec 20th, 2006
I’m not a fan of people who are late to meetings. It shows a lack of interest in the subject matter and a lack of respect towards the organizer or presenter. I was invited to a brief presentation a few weeks and observed two distinctly seperate approaches to lateness.
The meeting was scheduled for nine o’clock [...]
Posted in advertising, complaints, conspiracies, legal rights, oddities on Dec 7th, 2006
I’m not someone to engage in frivolous litigation, but I wonder if you could sue the makers of Final Fantasy for false advertising. After all, they have created eleven numerical sequels after the original game in 1987. After each sequel is released the previous title becomes a part of the lie. The fantasy clearly isn’t [...]
Posted in complaints, idiots on Nov 29th, 2006
Mail delivery in my neighborhood isn’t the greatest. I never remember it being horrible. I don’t know if the regular guy is on vacation or he’s just having a hard time, but recently I’ve been getting a lot of other people’s mail in addition to the usual garbage. Take today for example. When I picked [...]
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