Does anybody remember my rants about stupid activism? The kind where people just do stuff with no clear sense of why they’re doing it? The kind where nothing productive happens, just a lot of noise and arrests? Well here’s another example, and it makes my head spin from beginning to end. A local activist, Matthew …
Author Archives: Carin Headrick
What’s with That?
Why, if your mailbox is full, do a lot of ISP’s send you an email to let you know your mailbox is full? That’s the dumbest thing. But tons of them do it. That’s like the postman telling you to check your bulging mailbox by shoving a note in there telling you you might wanna …
Am I a Perv, or are they?
Ok, this question has been bugging me since I heard this song, partly because the song has been in my head and I catch myself humming it and I want to know what I’m humming, and partly because I’m just too damn curious for my own good. Barby sent me this French song called Porteclef, …
Speaking of Subs…
I forgot to write this in the last post, but what in hell is with that voice on the subway commercials? I don’t know who the guy is, but he sounds like he should play a cartoon character. He talks pretty normal through the whole ad, until he gets to the slogan. Then he wigs …
Oh Mister Sub, Sub, Mister Broken Sub, Please Don’t Spill on Me!
Yes, I’m an idiot. But last night’s experience with Mr. Sub just had to be written down. It starts off fairly ordinarily, with a few weird things, but nothing overly bad. I phone, I order a sub. The girl doesn’t seem to know how to take an order down because as I’m giving my address, …
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I Want Job Search Help, Not a Babysitter!
I hope this post will serve two purposes: let me vent like mad and help some other poor soul to avoid this shit so they don’t have to vent like mad. So off we go. A little while back, I started updating my resume and looking for work. I have a student debt hanging over …
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Nooo! I don’t have the wrong number! Give me Bob!
Here I go again, babbling about wrong numbers. No, it’s not about what we say when someone else gets a wrong number, or people not listening to answering machines in people’s homes. This one happens very rarely, but it happens. I volunteer at a Distress line, a phone line that people phone when they’re upset, …
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The Warbling Whore is Gone!
I can explain I can explain. I know at least one person besides Steve and I will know what I’m talking about. Have you ever fallen asleep with CTV on and been awakened with a horrible start by this horrible singing at 6 a.m. Something about…if the sun, doesn’t shine, to mo rooooo? I can’t …
The Return of the Gutless Wonder
I don’t know if anyone remembers my post about a girl aledging a police officer sexually assaulted her, not filing a formal complaint, bitching when the Special Investigations Unit didn’t come to her doorstep to take her statement and then practically convicting the guy she accused of assaulting her by throwing crap all over the …
Boobytrapped! Update
I realize that tomorrow, the original post about this will drift off the main page. So, here’s a link to it again. I got another email about it. They said they’d seriously look into why OCR software packages, packages that turn the printed word into text, thus into something the computer can read, demand the …