When corporations get pettish. Next, on the Faux channel.
Nov 23, 2001
Corporations appear to get more and more of a stranglehold on us every day. The general assumption when I was growing up and in my (hellish) job in retail was “The customer is always right”. Perhaps oversimplified, but it did point out that stores depend on us, not the other way around. (For one thing, we outnumber them.) Yet now companies spread disinformation and are lauded for being innovators? Or sue a dissatisfied consumer with claims of libel? (Looking over the incident, I’m not sure that word means what they think it means…but I digress.)
We all need to start thinking seriously about the companies from whom we buy things. With today’s interlocking, incestuous system of company ownerships, it may not be possible to totally cease giving money to any one company.
But we can damn sure cut down on how much they get.
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A million just doesn't go as far as it used to.
Nov 23, 2001
Am I the only person embarrassed by the public perception of these dotcom whiz kids? Or even (especially) by their real-life counterparts?
And I’m no math expert, but when did 215,000 come to equal 1,000,000? If we’re redefining the term millionaire, then heck, I’m one.
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These are dangerous! ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?!??!??
Nov 15, 2001
The Goodtimes! Virus
Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator’s coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.
It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there’s company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.
It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can?t find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss’s voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.
These are just a few signs…Just be very careful!
More..!
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The Mighty Geek's archives are a good ab workout. So sit there and laugh.
Nov 05, 2001
Go. Read. Laugh your ass off.
I followed a link from Peter‘s site to this one. The entry he’d linked to was interesting enough, and I rather liked it, even if it did hit a bit close-ish to home (<SARCASM WEIGHT=“MEDIUM”>Look, ma! Self-revelation in a weblog! Whodathunk?!</SARCASM>). But this entry made me laugh out loud.
I probably woke my downstairs neighbour. She’s feeling ill, and this being a wooden building (as opposed to concrete), everyone hears just about everything. Everyone say hi to Katie.
And send her good-health vibes. She’s taking care of my cats next weekend.
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Either that or haggis. Which is worse than crap.
Nov 05, 2001
A friend of mine once said that Sturgeon’s Law applies twice over on the Internet: 90% of everything is utter crud, and of the remaining 10%, 90% of that is marginally useful but still crud. That seems to make sense. I try to keep my site in the remaining 10%, but I seriously doubt it escapes that second culling. Still, it keeps me off the streets.
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People in packs can be...rabid.
Nov 04, 2001
A while back I wrote about actual partnerships (which do exist) and while having a long-overdue visit to the HB site, I find a conversation between a “control freak” and some of the staff of HB.
I do think that the writer in question has more than a few issues of his own to address. But is textual evisceration the best way to deal with people like this guy?
For one thing, it gives them more credit than they’re really worth.
For another, for new visitors, it kind of reinforces a stereotype of man-hating bitch-dykes (which is, most emphatically, NOT what Heartless Bitches is about.)
I did like their piece on the author of The Rules filing for divorce. I remember my reaction when that happened, and thought, Wow, she’ll have to eat a lot of crow — all those feathers will provide some roughage.
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