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 = true THEN i = [a(s + 2c)]/m
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: . . . uhh . . .
Me: A power [...]