James Cameron’s Pocahontas I’ll see your Pocahontas and raise you Speaker for the Dead Avatar is a visual revolution, but the story it tells is exactly as clichéd as we thought. James Cameron, you have joined George Lucas on the Dark Side. You’re dead to me now.
Using electronics is fun. (See: Xbox) Buying electronics is not fun, though. I hate shopping in general, unless it involves trying on shoes or going to Sephora. I like to get in, find exactly what I’m looking for, and the the eff outta Dodge. There’s only a couple of options, really. You could shop online, [...]
It took me a second to spot it when I was told to compare the images on the English and Polish versions of their Business Productivity tools. At first I just saw three smiling Generic Corporate People, enjoying a Highly Productive Meeting while they look at Charts And Graphs. I noticed slightly different menu options, [...]
I hate it when reality sets in. I ordered my Camaro, oh, idunno . . . months ago. It was supposed to be here in April. But it wasn’t. Then it was supposed to be here in May. And then it wasn’t. It was supposed to be here in June, July, August. But it isn’t. [...]
A friend of mine was recently asked to be a bridesmaid by her future sister-in-law. Sounds like fun, right? Bonding with a new sister, celebrating a new family being created . . . warm fuzzies all around. Or not. In a classic case of Bridezilla Syndrome, this wedding has spun out of control. The bride’s [...]
I’m trying not to feel like too much of a jerk right now, as none of it was intended, but still. Writing has always been problematic. What words to use? How to use them? What do they mean? Do they mean the same thing to you? Culture, language, personality, and worst of all, emotion have [...]
I get a lot of sales calls on my line at work. To date I have never received a call that offered a product or service relevant to us because (a) if the salesperson had done any research at all, they would know that my boss would not be the appropriate person to call and [...]
