December 2009
40 posts
3 tags
November 2009
38 posts
Uuuuhhhhhhhhhh
After the past 3 days, I feel like my body is a temple. Of Doom.
“Idiots are fun. No wonder every village wants one.”
– House, MD. Love this show.
You know your cable provider doesn't *get* the...
…. when you call to ask how to get their website on your computer, and they tell you they have to roll a truck for that. Next Thursday, any time between 9 AM and half-past February.
“Seems like a good time to invest in a toy pit bull. You know, security for the...”
– Paul upon learning a friend’s apartment has recently been burgled.
Priorities
Paul: do we have keys to the new office yet?
Marc: just picked 'em up.
Paul: off to the locksmith with you then!
Marc: Going to make 2 copies of the office key.... and about 300 copies of the bathroom key.
“News executives there consider this to have been a sloppy and unnecessary error.”
– FOX rolls wrong video, heads may roll: The Swamp
The implication being that FOX News executives consider other “errors” to have been Necessary and executed with Attention to Detail.
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Deena Kastor’s Green Chile Pumpkin Pie →
RMG, this pie is an official turkey-day experiment request. That is all.
Verizon to AT&T- 'The Truth Hurts' →
I can just see the new VZ ad now: “AT&T legally sucks in more places.”
“AT&T notes that it has the ‘nation’s fastest 3G network’”
– AT&T Publicly Responds to Verizon Ad Campaign
Guys, that’s like saying you have the world’s fastest snail. I’m not impressed. Now go focus on keeping my calls from dropping and quit spending my subscription $s on noise that doesn’t matter.
Auth
Authorization… or is it Authentication? One relates to identity and the other relates to permission granted to the holder of that identity. But SOOO many people confuse the words, and worse, use them interchangeably, that I have chosen to strike them from my vocabulary in favor of:
IDENTITY: as in, you have been positively Identified. Some form of this word will replace all cases of...
“Sacha says those guys are goofballs. Seriously, balls full of goof.”
– Paul
“Last night I told [redacted] that an awesome wife makes sausage and eggs for...”
– [redacted]. I can already see where this is going.
“Alex Miliyavskiy, the fun sized Ukrainian”
– marc (via insertname) Also, remember when they used to be called “mini” instead of “fun-sized”?
