What kind of buffoon thinks it's a good idea to tell off a customer service representative who's trying to help him ( Read more... )

This is the text that I used to reply to someone on Facebook, when I came across him ranting about how "guns don't kill, killers kill".

I could go out and find the websites that detail the scientific studies about the relationship between gun laws (and gun culture) and shooting deaths, and about how these things compare between countries that have ( Read more... )

So I was looking at want ads recently, and I came across this gem -- "[Redacted] Methodist needs a skilled pianist/singer to help lead a variety of congregational music and accompany our choir." Not position I'd apply for -- I might technically be able to do the work, but I'm years out of practice on the keyboard, and the job is explicitly part- ( Read more... )

It's like the joke about a demon chasing a devil -- just one damned thing after another ( Read more... )

Hello, Chocolate, my old friend
I've come to nom on you again
Because a flavor softly creeping
Crossed my tongue while I was eating
And endorphins that are planted in my brain
Still remain
Despite the taste . . . of Carob.

(A work in progress. Feel free to expand upon it, but if you use it commercially, we expect recognition.)

A combination bowling alley and financial institution under the business name of Pinterest.

I'm finding some interesting tidbits as I slowly expand my online reading, which is happening mostly on Facebook. Today I came across this article about a legal defense strategy that basically involves telling the jury "I know it was against the law, but it was something that I just had to do," and hoping that jury agrees with you ( Read more... )

I'm not terribly comfortable making posts on Facebook. I rarely hit the Like button, and I don't think I've ever hit the Share button. I don't even comment much. I don't know exactly why this should be, but it's peripheral to this post.

Someone I consider a friend liked a recent post on a page over there, and I felt moved to respond. I don't ( Read more... )

I am acquainted with a co-worker, a woman I'll call K here. She is quite successful by the standards of the call center where I work, in terms of customer satisfaction, average time required to handle a call, and other metrics. She also has a quick, dry wit, and she's not shy about suggesting solutions to the problems my work-group will sometimes ( Read more... )

I read something on Facebook earlier today about the way different people are reacting to the news about terrorist attacks. The author and I are not on each others' friends-lists; I only read this entry when someone else shared it, so I don't have explicit permission to copy this (I make the conscious, reasonable assumption that I have implicit ( Read more... )