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Hey you - the one with all the “I watch Faux News and I won’t apologize” bumper stickers on your Harley helmet - yeah, you. Are you the one making this raunchy coffee every morning that I foolishly pour for myself?
Well, stop. It tastes like ass. It makes me lose interest in coffee for the [...]

I hate what Windows is doing to the world of systems administration. I am not an IT guy - I don’t profess to know a whole lot about IT and I doubt I’d last long in a conversation with someone who was an IT professional. That doesn’t change the fact that I can say without [...]

I hate passwords. They were specifically designed by the software industry to make our lives hell and remove any blame for that state of hell from themselves. “O, well, you failed to give yourself a secure password, so it’s not our fault you got hacked”. “O, you forgot your password, then we’ll have to give [...]

Can someone remind me what it’s like not having to press the ‘pause’ button on my life for two weeks after every weekend I spend at home? I’ve forgotten.
Why is it that most of the nurses I see outside of Winston Salem’s two large institutional hospitals are either obese or smoking or both? Shouldn’t anyone [...]

Microsoft Word sucks. Everything about it sucks. It’s like iPhone’s spell-checker on steroids, after having sex with Jupiter. With an extra buttraping by several unwashed armies of desert nomads. I’ve decided to start using Notepad to write my letters and memos.
I need to get work done, but can’t seem to obtain a 15-minute span of [...]

Excellent, excellent article (hat-tip, Jim Russell).
Trunk recognizes her condescension, but she also envies the people she’s judging. Because they’re happier.
This is the feeling I get every time I spend a weekend in Lawrenceville. “They po’ but they happy” is a quote David gave me. Of course, happy being subjective, are they really any happier than [...]

From Paz:
I am in my early 20s and soon to be graduating from what I would probably say is a nationally-recognized university with a degree that God-willing has some earning potential. The majority of my friends are in the same boat.
And there I have it: I always thought I was young and had my whole [...]

I’ve taken the dive and given my notice at my job in San Francisco. In the midst of the worst economic crisis in modern history, and on the cusp of potentially massive social changes, I’m giving up my security blanket in the job I’ve had for 8 years.
I’m doing this so that I can make [...]