Posts Tagged ‘griping’

I caught Watchmen last night. Overall I found it thought-provoking, graphic and explicit beyond my comfort zone, quiet but emphatic in its message, and well written and played. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but it’s hard to argue with the film’s central message: there is no world where everyone just makes the right decision. [...]

Thank you, Buzzkill Fairy. Thank you for waving your magical wand. I may need to buy a new car. Now’s an okay time to be shopping for one, but needless to say today has been a fun mix of stress, irritation and worry. It’s not the price tag so much as the logistics that stress [...]

Revision: Patch for the newly implemented Algorithm “Irritation Calculation.” The code currently reads: FOR EACH interfering human: IF direct confrontation = false THEN ignore ELSE i = [a(s + 2c)]/m I propose the following amendment: FOR EACH interfering human: IF direct confrontation = false THEN ignore ELSE query: “Are there witnesses present?” IF witnesses = [...]

Phone rings 37 times before someone picks it up GameStop Drone: Hello? Me: Is this GameStop? GameStop Drone: Oh, yeah. Thank you for calling GameStop – Me: Yeah, thanks. Do you have a power source for an XBox 360? GameStop Drone: A what? Me: A power source for an XBox 360? GameStop Drone: . . [...]