A woman decides she’s a man, changes her mind, and later gets pregnant. Hardly a miracle. Yet the media is all over it. What’s the deal with that?
Unfortunately, I have to interview a lot of candidates that have somehow gotten through the apparently inept first-line screeners. Most of these candidates are complete idiots.
Six months ago, Joey Vento (the owner of Geno’s Steaks in Philadelphia) put up a sign in the restaurant that reads, “This is America — when ordering speak English.” He states that he added the sign to encourage immigrants to learn the language.
Of course, a bunch of whiny, immigrant activists have labeled his actions racist. [...]
I tend to be paranoid about security. My Linksys wireless router is set to use 128-bit encryption, rather than the less secure 64-bit standard. All computers at home are behind dual firewalls, except for those few that exist within the DMZ. I usually give out our post office box address instead of our physical home [...]
Quaker Oats, in an ever evolutionary process, now requires for it’s new line of oatmeal that packets be cooked in the microwave, stating that the old process of simply adding hot water will not cook the oatmeal. My assumption is that this is accurate and that they have developed some new way of processing the [...]
I was in a meeting recently in which one of the participants referred to China and Mexico as Third World countries because of their economic status. Since my recollection of the definition of the numbered worlds reflected an established politically democratic system as the leading criteria, I needed clarification.
According to the open Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, [...]
It’s looks like RR… and my (our) other blogs are going to be stuck loosely based on Movable Type version 2.63 forever. Six Apart, the creators of this terrific blogging system, have released version 3.0D and adversely updated their license agreement.
Because I have more than five authors, I’d be required to send them $100 in [...]
Hummers used to be so cool.
OK, they’re still pretty cool, but in the impoverished area of Silicon Valley where at least two Hummer dealerships profit from daily sales, the H1 and H2 are a dime a dozen — every Safeway parking lot has at least one of the massive vehicles awaiting the burdensome task of [...]
At 4:44 this afternoon, I realized that I hadn’t yet gone out to the local post office to mail our tax returns. Fortunately, I live close by and was able to deposit them by 4:48 — with just 12 minutes to spare. I normally don’t wait until the last possible minute to file, but I [...]
In an effort to scramble together some of the addresses of defunct companies where I once worked, I came across an HR website that espoused the following offenses, among others more reasonable sounding:
The following behaviour patterns may be indicative of a dishonest employee: (1) vocally proposes taking unauthorised short cuts to improve workflow; (2) unauthorised [...]
