A couple of weeks ago Mary and I attempted to get tickets to the sold out Flight of the Conchords show at the Chicago Theatre. There were tons of people looking for tickets and extra tickets were very scarce. Mary was successful in obtaining a single ticket, which she sacrificed to me and I went [...]
I was at Trader Joe’s today and was looking to pick up some orange juice. I didn’t want “no pulp” and I didn’t want “extra pulp”. I just wanted a regular amount of pulp, like we used to get in the old days when we didn’t worry about pulp. Well, all they had was lots [...]
Come on, lady! Do you have to pay with a check? It’s 2007. Get a debit card! Withdraw some cash from an ATM (there’s always one within 50 feet of you in 2007). And do you have to write sooooo slow, dot every “i”, cross every “t”, and balance your checkbook as you do this. [...]
Everyone knows that it is every man, woman, and child’s God-given right to have some extra stray fries at the bottom of your fast food bag. It doesn’t matter if the fast food is from Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Jack-in-the-Box or that Hawaiian Burger Joint – Big Kahuna Burger, the simple rule is this: when you are [...]
You know what I mean? You’re driving along at night, maybe in a neighborhood that you don’t know. All of a sudden, an approaching car apparently flashes his bright headlights at you. Do I have my brights on? Is he warning me of something? Is he being a jerk? Should I flash him back? Oh, [...]
The studio album as a great artistic piece of work is becoming rarer and rarer. There are good ones out there, but they are not the ones that sell and make the Billboard Hot 100. iTunes, music sharing, and manufactured artists are mostly to blame. And can you believe that Hilary Duff has a “greatest [...]
For this week’s “Annoyance” entry, non-software developers beware, you might not feel my pain or understand what I’m talking about. This is a cliche joke in the software world, but it is SO TRUE! Basically, the IWOMM syndrome a happens when a developer commits new code that relies on something specific to the offender’s computer [...]
I must be extra cranky tonight, because this is really being nit-picky. It always bugs me when I see somebody in Starbucks who says “I NEED a skim half-caf extra foam green tea frappaccino.” You don’t NEED it. Maybe you could say you WANT it. Or you would LIKE it. But you don’t NEED it. [...]
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