A small note:

Generally speaking, when someone tells you they would like to send flowers to your relative's funeral, it is inappropriate to ask for a meat tray instead.

One last post of 08.... and here it is.

This week my boss is on vacation, so I get to do everything.  I say "get" because honestly... it's sooo easy.  Criminally so.  I keep thinking I'm going to get in trouble or something for just sitting there, but I honestly get everything done.  When my boss isn't there, I can do all the paperwork much faster than she can... and that's with me ( Read more... )

About a month ago, I got promoted at work.  I'm now the training coordinator (read: personnel assistant manager) for my store.  It's a very odd job, because it involves a lot less work than my old position as a regular sales associate.  And I'm supposed to talk and socialize with employees.  It's like.... if I sit quietly doing work, I'm not doing ( Read more... )

Watching Scrubs one day, I was thinking how I usually think, that I'm so J.D. and I just need to find a Turk to marry or something.  But it was one of the episodes with Kim, and I'd never seen the start of the J.D./Kim thing, only the baby stuff.  So I was a little surprised to find out how J.D.-ish Kim was, and I realized that I was really more ( Read more... )

So I'm browsing the toy section at work, and I see these new Transformers action figures with "Push Button Transformation!"  Basically, you push a single button on the back, and the figure transforms from car to robot automatically.

Not to be old-fashioned, but sometimes society's obsession with instant microwave meals and self-checkouts and other ( Read more... )

...is this random old faggy customer who comes in with limp wrists swinging, tossing around S's like confetti.  And he always gets handsy with me.  And apparently my other male coworkers.  They call him "The Groper ( Read more... )

I've done consumer surveys about commercials and advertisements before, but I really have to wonder if the companies really listen to the comments.

Even without surveys, I wonder if the ad agencies even watch their own commercials.

Two recent examples:

Quizno's new ad campaign is "If you're going to eat five dollars..." and shows a person eating a ( Read more... )

I just got salmoned, apparently.  It's this weird occurrence in which your IMs get rerouted to a random IM user you don't know.  Some girl named Stephanie got hers rerouted to me via the "CommunistSalmon" bot.

It doesn't apprear to be malicious, but still, kinda weird.  
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I just saw a commercial for a camera with a new special feature:  It detects whether or not someone in your picture has their eyes closed so that you can retake the shot.

That's right.  A camera... with an LCD VIEWFINDER... that LET'S YOU SEE THE PICTURE YOU JUST TOOK.... will now tell you if someone in the picture blinked.

...Brilliant.