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 …