I just got what should have been a very tempting marketing email. “Splash into our summer cocktail menu,” it offered. It also used this emoji. 💦 “What,” you might be asking yourself at this moment, “is the problem there? I assume there’s a problem since you said “should have been tempting”.” The problem, my curious …
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May I Take Your Order For Less Than I’m Worth If You Can Find Me?
Meet Freshii’s new ‘virtual cashier’ — who works from Nicaragua for $3.75 an hour A couple of things here. I’ve never been to a Freshii. To tell you the truth, I’m not entirely sure what they sell or even how to pronounce the name of the place. Is it freshy? Fresh-eeeee? Fresh-eye? Fresh-2? But whatever. …
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The People Who Live In My Apartment Building
When I heard that song, I knew I wanted to have the chance to use it. Now seems like as good a time as any. Thankfully, most of the people who live in my apartment building aren’t as weird as the specimens in the song…although we’ve had a few prizes. But lately, I keep running …
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Karens Diner
Gill told me about this, and on a surface level, I laugh, but I can’t imagine why I personally would ever want to go into one of these places. In Australia, there is a chain of restaurants called Karens Diner. Here is a brief description about them. We hate good service. rated 1* by us. …
I 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Percent Don’t Get It
I don’t know if this is going to wind up being my inner old person, my inner blind person or both talking here, but let’s go. I don’t mind emojis when they’re used appropriately. By appropriately, I mean in moderation. That much is definitely my inner blind person. If you put 13 😂 emojis in …
My Passport Got Another Stamp!
Holy crap, I took a trip! I took the plunge and took a trip. I came back on Saturday, and so far I’m not dead, so I think it was a success. Through the pandemic, I would have nightmares that I’d forgotten how to travel and didn’t pack the right supplies and failed all over …
This Is So Convenient! Unless You Happen To Be Inconvenient
It’s so fantastically great when all you want to do is some regular people thing like travel or quickly buy something you need and the world tells you to go fuck yourself. The last time I had this experience was back at Christmas with Via Rail and its stupid un-staffed train station here in Kitchener …
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Feel The Beams
It’s official. The mind beams are alive and well. Once again, Valentine’s Day came rumbling at me at full steam. But on about February 9, I had an inspiration. I had heard about these boxes of chocolates with a Braille legend, so you can tell what chocolates you’re eating. I snuck off to my computer …
The Words Aren’t The Problem. You Are
Words and phrases you may want to think twice about using I’ve said this many times in many different places, but one more time with feeling, I guess. I wish we would put more energy into focusing on intent rather than language. I’m not going to say that there aren’t any decent points to be …
Nights In The Lab…
guh. It’s almost the end of my vacation, and I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck. Did I do anything super duper exciting? Nope. But I did have to go for a sleep study. I still feel like I’m recovering. “So what the heck is a sleep study?” I hear you ask. …