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CL&P Blog: Companies Claim Right to Interfere with eBay Auctions for Charging Too Little: (slashdot) - In the spirit of Slashdot, I've not even RTFA'd yet. I'm just bookmarking it for tomorrow when I'm conscious again. THEN I'll probably become irate. And I'll add my rant about how insanely lame it is that companies will outsource their labor to foreign countries ("LIKE JAPAN!" -snerk-) and reap the benefits of that, but have not only raised the drawbridge to their castle, they've convinced our leaders that it's all to protect culture.

And after I finish that rant, I'll probably even tag this article properly.
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  • "Save As..." and then selecting a filename that exists already; every other application in the world, even other apps in the Office suite, and the OS itself just says, "That name exists. Overwrite?" but in MS Word, it pops up an additional dialog with three choices, which is one more than the asshole in "The Lady, or the Tiger?" had to contend with. Basically it wants to know "No, really, how about a different name" or "No, no - really overwrite" and "OK, how about I fold the differences between the two documents into that older document, and let you keep working on the mutant, hellacious, and probably corrupted offspring?" And in my case, it's in Japanese with several kanji I can't read, and thanks to Microsoft, I can't highlight and copy the dialog box text to check it out via a translation software. But choice is good, right? NO, IT ISN'T.
  • Highlight some text, and then start typing - again, anywhere else, in any major OS and in any application, the highlighted text will be replaced with whatever you type next. Not in MS Word. Oh, sure: USUALLY it works that way, but sometimes it decides to just take the left of the selection as the cursor point, insert the new text, and keep the old text there, just off to the right. Meaning it has to be re-selected, then deleted. What the hell causes this, and why isn't it consistent?
  • And don't get me started on its List function. Especially Numbered Lists. Eww.

ack!

Jul. 12th, 2007 11:38 pm
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Temp Hides Fun, Fulfilling Life From Rest Of Office | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
BOSTON—Ty Braxton, 23, continues to hide his fun and fulfilling life from the full-time employees of Hale & Dorr, the Boston law firm for which he has temped since July.

"At a job like this, where you're surrounded by angry, perpetually stressed-out lawyers who are working 80 hours a week, it's important to hide the fact that you're enjoying a normal, balanced, happy life," Braxton said Monday. "People get really pissed when they hear stuff like that." (article continues)
(via [livejournal.com profile] chernobylred )
chronovore: (mouthy)
Does My Chemical Romance really suck as bad as I think they do?
chronovore: (mouthy)
ABC.com: Primetime - Traveler -- There were girls in high school that everybody in my group of friends wanted to go out with, and more than a few of the boys did. Those girls were were smart, funny, pretty, and a little bit crazy; cruel talk had it that they might be "easy" as well; or so rumor had it. When I asked one that I was particularly smitten with to go out, just after graduation (and perhaps about the time that women were becoming very canny about playing to their audience) I was hopeful about all the kind of things testosterone and romance addled naive lads are hopeful about.

I spent a lot of time on the phone with her, and helping with school projects, and spent a fair bit of cash on restaurants and in general no small amount of time. It never went anywhere; plenty of teasing, but (no) not even a kiss.

I've watched the first two episodes of Traveler. I'm debating on the third episode, but it's beginning to feel a lot like those dates.
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Man knew he had TB before flying to Europe - CNN.com: (via [livejournal.com profile] super_nyanko )
The man, who is quarantined at an Atlanta, Georgia, hospital, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that Fulton County health officials had said they "preferred" he not travel, but knew about his plans for an overseas wedding and honeymoon.
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A Crash Course in Classroom Jargon:Crunch time: Part of a game where the result is still yet to be determined, characterized by extreme pressure. In business, a time when each decision is critical to the final success or failure of an operation.
I never would have guessed this came from sports. I would have assumed it came from the feeling that you were about to be crushed, or "crunch" as in "sit-up" because they're painful and not fun.

psa

Aug. 23rd, 2006 01:58 pm
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Attention, Japanese people: If you work  a desk job to the point of being sedentary, and eat McDonalds 5 times a week for lunch, and it becomes hot, you will begin to experience body odor in your sweat secretions. It's all the crap trying to work its way out of your body.

It's not me. I do not stink, so stop looking at me. Americans grow up dealing with an awareness of body odor. We generally take care of it. So direct your baleful glare at the jerk next to me, because I'm just as unhappy as you are about this sorry state of atmospheric despair.

That is all.
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It was bad enough that there was such a crappy in-flight movie selection that I was willing to watch Mike Meyers in The Cat in the Hat, but did he really have to spend the whole movie doing a half-assed impersonation of Charles Nelson Reilly?

Alec Baldwin did it better in the SNL skit.

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