“No, it’s a proxy indicator. A 50-year-old can be hot if she takes care of herself (TV is full of people like this these days, hell the streets are too). Just as they have stopped caring about their appearances, they have stopped caring about customer service. If you doubt this, just try flying United long-haul.”
I stumbled onto this post the other day through Hacker News. Basically Ryan Dahl (the guy who wrote node.js, a web framework that makes running web servers easy with javascript) called out the deplorable state of software today.
I fully agree with him.
And here’s why - I’ve seen…
THIS
Gamers are not a cringing minority but the same scornful, entitled males you’ve been dealing with your entire life. And this particular breed—fancying themselves unappreciated, intelligent, and more worthy than other males of female attention—is in no mood for rejection. Despite their pretention to a higher morality when it comes to women, they will repay rejection with cruelty and scorn.
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| — | Geordie Tait, “To My Someday Daughter” |
An IM from my mother
Mom: Hello! I made it home fine.
Mom: It is always nice to talk to you. Please keep in touch while on your trip. Have a super time. All my love always and forever.
Mom: Your mom
Me: Mom, you know this is live, right?
Me: You're talking to me right now
Mom: Yes you are live and I am alive!! Whew!
Mom: I have never had a live chat or IM you call it. xoxox
Me: haha. I can tell.
I’m still fascinated by North Korea. Just as they’re conditioned to hate us, we’ve been told to hate them.
“I simply do not want to breath the air, which is filled by sensationalism and distorted values. Lets’ admit – all of us have something to do with the poisonous development of our music world, in which “stars” count more than creativity, ratings more than genuine talent, numbers more than…. sounds.” (Click through for full article)
This quote causes me great concern
“… for an average total viewing time of four and a half hours per person. (Let’s keep thing in perspective: That’s still less time than the average American spends watching regular TV per day.)”
Who has the time to watch 5 or more hours of television per day? Perhaps I’m just naïve because I haven’t watched cable TV in two years. But seriously: wtf, guys?
BlizzandZen pointed out that I made a slight mistake in this post. The wise man explains:
“If we raise the debt ceiling, we authorize the government to spend more money.”
Almost, but not quite, and this is the primary point that has people confused. Spending the money has already been…
Wonderfully said.
Crap…
