Reading this description of life as a call centre agent in India was really interesting. Interesting, and sad. But it also made me chuckle because of a comedy bit that Steve was recently talking about. I guess someone, whose name escapes him, was talking about how these Indian-sounding fellers always had very American names like …
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No No No, You’re Doing It Wrong!
This cracked me up so I thought I’d put it up. We all worry about applying for jobs correctly, or maybe we wonder if we’re doing everything right on a date. But did we ever think we were doing seven really basic things wrong? Well, we are. I’ve heard some of these before, but I …
The Newest Version Of RTFM
Here are a couple of goodies from Twitter. Have you ever been asked a really really dumb question? The kind where you wonder why they ask because it would take like half a second of googling to find the answer? Well, now, you can get the message to them by using this website or this …
2 Things That Have Nothing To Do With Each Other
A couple of random things, just because. The Just For Laughs comedy festival has a YouTube channelnow, and while I haven’t done much digging through it yet, I’ve already come acrossthis great Joey Elias clip,which was one of Carin’s favourite parts of the road showwe went to a few years back. And here, for purposes …
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I Took A Hostage. I Mean Business! This Has To Stop!
I took a blog hostage yesterday. You know, because they say you should always try new things. Being the nice fellow that I can be about once or twice a year, last night I helped our friend Amanda set up her blog to link her new posts on Twitter for her. she mustn’t know me …
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A Bit Of Forgotten Canadian History
Leave it toSnopesto serve up something interesting on what’s looking like a slow day. I’m not sure why, but for whatever reason the story ofCharles Vance Millar and the Toronto Baby Racehe created when he died wasn’t covered when I took Canadian history class back in my high school days.
Apparently, We’re All Spaced Out!
Well, almost four years ago, I asked the question two spaces or one after a period? It appears that today I got my answer. According to this Slate article, the consensus is one space, goddamn it, and stop with the two spaces already! At least I have an explanation. I guess two spaces were needed …
The Random Dr. Phil Quote Generator
Update: The link is broken, and so far I haven’t been able to find a replacement. Sorry about that. I’ll keep looking. Original post: Somebody sent me this I wanna say years ago and for some reason I never posted it. But we were talking about Dr. Phil a little bit on Twitter today and …
Thanks To You, We’re One Of The Top 30 Vision Impaired Blogs On The Internet This Year!
Update: Sorry if this post looks a little weird. I’ve been notified that the site that hosted the awards back in 2010 has been making a bunch of changes and the info about what we won is either disappearing or already disappeared. So that being the case, I’ve removed the links since they’re not going …
>I Should Send This Essay To My Mom
>Wow. We have bitched about the stupidity of the new airport security measures, but this essay couldn’t put it any more articulately. Ya wanna know who wrote it? A pilot! He did quite a bit of research, and it’s true about our short memories. When you see all of those bombings summed up, you wonder …