HERE ARE SOME MISC RANTS, OPINIONS AND JUST SOME REALLY STRANGE STUFF THAT MY READERS FELT COMPELLED TO SHARE....
How much would you want to pay for an autographed Arlo Guthrie concert
ticket. I don't think I want to sell it, I was just wondering.
Just a little one for right now why do they make staples longer than the stapler. You always end up with a box of bits and pieces you usually end up throwing away. I have never come across a stapler that has taken the whole line of staples that comes out of the box always have to break in apart and only use part of it. Let me know if you have an answer for that one.
Hi, My name is XXX, (the name of the e-mail account is different because it's a nick name I had in high school). I have Just visited the page and it's very entertaining, simple but lively and it sure made my day, congratulations. About Me: I am a young editor (25) of an independent music magazine in my hometown, south of the border near Arizona, I used to play bass in a rock band, now I am full time promoting new groups. My town: a truly hell hole, forgotten, pretending to be a "productive urban modern society". hum! My Life: all about music, is my passion and dedicate all my efforts to it, Today: feel kinda lonely, even though I have my girlfriend, some kind of weird feeling I can't explain, I have a good job, but pay checks are distant and bills are on my back, aagghh! anyway, I try not to worry, have some good jokes in mind, maybe you want to hear about, just in case. Well, thanks for reading all my nonsense, I just wanted to express myself, keep up the good work, the page is cool! Sincerely, XXX
nice page...
Irresponsible Behavior Rewarded
A WOMAN QUITS HER JOB, CHEATS ON HER HUSBAND, MOVES OUT OF THE HOUSE AND FALSY ACCUSSES HUSBAND OF ASSULT AND BATTERY. REWARD: SOLE CUSTODY OF THE CHILDREN (WHEN ITS CLEAR THE FATHER IS A MORE RESPONSIBLE PROVIDER A BETTER PARENT AND CAN PROVIDE A MORE NUTURING ENVIRONMENT) CHECK EVERY MONTH AND FOOD STAMPS (SO SHE CAN BUY FOOD WHEN SHE USES ALL HER MONEY ON DOPE) AND DOESNT HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO ANYONE EXCEPT OUR GOVERNMENT (AKA, DADDY) WHO SAYS SHE CAN NOT HAVE THE FATHER OF THE CHILDREN IN THE HOME OR SHE WILL LOSE HER GOODIES. THE FATHER ON THE OTHER HAND CONTINUES TO WORK, WHILE THE GOVERNMENT TAXES HIS CHECK, (EVEN MORE WHEN HE WORKS OVER TIME TO TRY TO GET AHEAD) GARNISH HIS WAGES FOR CHILD SUPPORT, THEN THROWS HIM I JAIL FOR BEING A HONORABLE MAN BY NOT PLEADING GUILTY OF A ASSULT HE DIDNT DO. MAKES HIM SPEND HIS LIFES SAVINGS TO DEFENDING HIMSELF. THEN CALLS HIM A LOOSER OR DEADBEAT, WHEN HE CANT PAY HIS RENT. WHEN HE COMMITS SUICIDE THEY SAY HE WAS JUST WEAK MAN, NO BACKBONE. THANKS UNCLE SAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANONAMOUS
Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!
Computers are trying to kill me. Why is it that when you buy ANYTHING relating to your PC, you have to cross your fingers that it will be compatible with what you already have. I think programmers purposely leave something out when they think up these things to make your life "easier". It's like getting a recipie from Grandma where she leaves out one ingredient so your dish won't taste as good as hers.
IM STILL DEPRESSED
BUT STILL HERE AND 47 YESTERDAY
I wish.... I wish I had more to say, but I haven't been to bed yet so I am too tired to rant.
But...I promise to visit shortly and submit...love this site!
Clueless retail customers?
I am female and sell women's shoes. Women are NUTS!
You won't believe these!
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"I WANT to return these shoes!"
"Sorry. Can't take back a worn shoe, unless there is, what we consider,
a manufacturer's defect."
"WELL! They DON'T match my outfit! SURE! I WORE them! But they are the
WRONG color blue! Do you KNOW that ALL my girlfriends made FUN of me
the WHOLE DAY?!?! I was SOOO embarrassed!!! It was AWFUL! You say you can't
take them back? Well, YOU can just CALL a manager, and WE'LL SEE!
(Yep! We in retail, SHOULD have ESP, I suppose, and KNOW what's in
someone's closet! OUR fault!)
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"Do you carry SAS shoes?" (That's a brand.)
"No, ma'am."
"SO...do you carry Naturalizer's?"
"Yes, ma'am. They are displayed on that table, over there."
" WELL! I CAN'T wear THOSE! THEY never FIT me!!!!"
(Then WHY did you EVEN ASK???)
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"Yes, I need to return these shoes!"
"Well, you HAVE worn them, ma'am. Was someting WRONG with them?"
"There CERTAINLY IS!!! I've only WORN them 3-4 times and they're
creasing. The LEATHER is CREASING! I DON'T expect to pay good money,
and have them look as if I've worn them 8-10 times!"
(So, do you return your CLOTHES, if they WRINKLE?)
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During a 'coupon event' a lady said she had forgot her coupon at home.
Insisted that we give her the 20% off, anyway. Said I couldn't do that.
Everyone ELSE had to have THEIR coupons.
So, she huffed off after buying her shoes. She returned an hour and a
half later, coupon in hand. Returned and, WITH her coupon, rebought the
shoes...thus, saving her a whopping $1.50 on a $7.50 pair of
discontiued orange Ked's! (Guess SHE showed ME, eh?)
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I have been at the retail sales game for 6 years, now...and have come
to the conclusion that a GOOD portion of women are petty, self-absorbed,
egocentric, irrational (a polite way of saying, stupid!), and generally
unaware of the world around them! Keep in mind, I AM a female! So MANY
women are in a "ME, me, me!" mode. Ladies...GET OVER YOURSELVES!
Thanks for listening!
The simplistic complications of easy living.
Get a job, work, live and have fun with the whole process.
Jokes were GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Web manager note: this is the complete e-mail, I have no idea what this guy is talking about....oh well......
Drunken Santa (oil painting by Jaisini)
Drunken Santa is a work that creates a miracle of equilibrium. What seemed like a clash of an
opposite spectrum's colors became the unlikely harmony in this painting. Jaisini's artistic vision here is formed from two components of physical and emotional states of being. Freezing and heating serve as a symbol to a human need for warming up from the chill of solitude by means known to people at all times. The artist pursues his art philosophical quest for worldly knowledge that had left its traces in many of his works. A line of composition literally ignites the painting's surface with the movement. The color of this work is "phosphorescent," and it create the different planes if the subtle color nature. The warm color of purple supports the hot color of Santa's figure and an exotic fish above Santa. This hot color may represent the so-called material universe, the world of the gross
senses that can be observed in a sober state. The cold, arctic blue color represents the unknown, the world of a deep state of drunkenness where real is unreal and otherwise. The only hard reality is the self, which never changes in any state. And maybe that is why Jaisini favors the painting's main hero, Santa, to possess the vivacious color of fire. Jaisini chooses this color of fire to manifest the self and the cold cerulean, cobalt and ultramarine to renounce self as a mortal entity surrounded by the eternal unknown. While Santa drinks, his feelings of frigid loneliness vanish. And so, he gets a company of some almost hallucinatory nature. A shark, a ghostly image, a profile of another prototypical drunk who is not accidentally situated in a horizontal position. An amalgam of the
several female figures that consists of a woman in stockings, a nun, a big-breasted silhouette that create a shadow between. A heat can be sensed around the hot colored Santa who has lost his beard and is holding a glass of red wine. He shows his thumb that may be just a polite substitution
for the middle finger sign. The colors of the work are balanced by a virtuoso composition of a cubist character. The picture's space is divided endlessly. More images start to appear. The world of "Drunken Santa" vitalizes to almost chaotic state. The work is a treasure. It depicts and witnesses the intangible mechanism of reality transformation. In the state of intoxication, what happens to the solid world of sober state? Everything disappears. It is just like the dream-world, that we call unreal,
because when we are awaken it is not there. Just so the solid world must be unreal because it also vanishes in the drunk or deep-sleep states. Then what is reality? In "Drunken Santa," this problem is elaborated besides the beauty of artistic logic, Jaisini's works are marked with the rich,
magnetic colors, as in "Drunken Santa" and others, strikingly attractive pictures in their intricate game of light and shadow, in their absolute congruence of visual and conceptual.
Review of oil painting "Drunken Santa"
by Paul Jaisini Text copyrights by Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb All rights
reserved New York, 1999
This is a response from a very good and old friend of mine concerning my Past Rant: The Victoria Secret Conspiracy.....
You know what? That is so you!!
This article was originally published in the October 92 issue of Technology Review.
My 1963 Dodge Dart convertible has three heater controls. They're big round knobs. They're easy to find, and I can tell them apart even in the dark. Nearly 30 years of technological progress brought us the 1990 Buick, which uses 14 buttons to accomplish essentially the same functions. The 14 buttons are all exactly the same size and shape, and they're all perfectly flat, so as to be indistinguishable by touch. It seems to me that any control in a car that requires that I look at it is inherently wrong.
Unfortunately, these kinds of mistakes seem to be the rule rather than the exception. I test drive 50 to 100 new cars a year, and I am struck by the incredible proliferation of blatant ergonomic errors. I've been pondering this situation and I suggest the following
taxonomy of blunders that designers succumb to:
1. Using a technology not because it's appropriate but "because it is there" (the Sir Edmund Hillary School of Ergonomics).
2. Being different at any cost.
3. Reinventing whenever possible.
4. Copying nothing, not even good ideas: it's embarrassing to admit that you didn't think of them yourself.
5. Just plain stupidity (otherwise known as the Ted Williams Theory; he once advised a not-too-bright teammate: "If you don't
think too good, then don't think too much").
6. Too many cooks.
7. Oops! Where the hell are we going to put this?
Consider these examples. A couple of years ago, I climbed into a mid-size American sedan with power everything. The seat controls were in the traditional location on the left side of the driver's seat. But when I reached down to adjust the seat, my hand did not fit between the door and the side of the seat--I had to open the door to adjust the seat! The was a category 6 mistake--too many cooks: the designers of the inside door panel evidently didn't talk to the group designing the seat controls. No big deal, I thought--they'll fix it next year.
And fix it they did. Sort of. The following year, the power seat controls consist on nine identical flat buttons, a category 3--reinvent everything--error. But where to put those nine buttons? Well, the car has a console between the bucket seats and they put the buttons on the vertical plate at the back end of this console, toward the rear of the car (category seven--where the hell...). Are these controls awkward to reach? Try touching the back of your chair you're sitting in with your fingers. It gets better. Which button to press? To see the hieroglyphics printed on the buttons, I must not only take my eyes off the road, but I must look toward the back of the car. This clearly qualifies as a category 5 (just plain stupid) and a category 2 (be different). This seat-control debacle is especially sad considering that about 10 years ago, Mercedes Benz designed the ultimate in power seat controls; it will surely go into the Ergonomic Hall of Fame for beauty, simplicity, and pure elegance. "If you want to control a seat," the Mercedes designers must have said, "why not make a control that's shaped like a seat!" Can you do any better than that? Should you even try? Ford, to its credit, immediately copied this truly brilliant design. But Chrysler? Volvo? Even the Japanese, who built their reputations on copying? No, no, and no. And General Motors? Buttons. Indistinguishable buttons. It's a classic category 4 error (copy nothing). Despite Mercedes' brilliance with the seat controls, even they are not immune to plain stupidity. The $70,000 300SE that I recently tested has a heater control with a 1-by-1/4-inch LED temperature readout in the center of the dashboard. We're supposed to read these tiny numbers while driving . Not only that, but the adjustment knob is so sensitive that I can barely "control" the temperature within 10 degrees as the vehicle is moving.) Just how far can designers take their obsession with indistinguishable buttons? The answer comes from GM. "why not," they must have mused, "put the controls for everything on a touch-sensitive screen." This touch screen takes the multibutton philosophy to a totally new level of stupidity. It can display thousands of buttons with no discernible edges at all. Can you feel a pixel? GM used touch-screen technology not because it made sense but because it was there. Another part of the car that is rife with technology run amok is the radio. Ironically, the best ergonomically designed radios are available from GM--but only if you buy the cheapest one. More money gets you technological overkill, like a graphic equalizer that displays the sound frequency spectrum so you can fiddle endlessly with the controls and watch the lights to get exactly the tone you want. A graphic equalizer? In a car? Now really. In my wife's Volvo, the radio has six buttons in a space about equal to the surface area of your fingertip. Since these buttons all do something wonderful, the designers must have responded, why should you care which one(s) get pressed? Lighten up! Take a chance.
What, I ask, is wanting in a radio with two large round protruding knobs, like in my father's 1951 Dodge? And the 1956 Oldsmobile had a "seek" feature that could be operated with your foot! Do we really need more than this The car industry is guilty too often of technological excess and change for the sake of change. But elsewhere in our daily lives we encounter a machine--the refrigerator--that is an ergonomic failure for precisely the opposite reason: the newest one's aren't much different from my grandmother's. Maybe some of those GM engineers who can't keep their paws off something that works should get jobs at appliance companies, where they can fix something that's truly broke.Think about it: I open the freezer about once every 15 or 20 times that I open the main refrigerator compartment. So which one is at eye level, easy to see and reach? Right, the freezer. The other 15 or 20 times I have to bend over or get on my knees to find things. Doesn't it make sense to do it the other way? Yet I've found only two refrigerators with the freezer on the bottom. For the past decade, refrigerator manufacturers have been diligently working to improve energy efficiency. As though it makes any difference. Where is the inefficiency of a refrigerator, really? Don't these people have any kids? Haven't they ever watched their kids standing in front of the fridge with the door wide open, trying to decide whether to have the chocolate-flavored Kool-Aid or the 90-percent-water "fruit juice," or maybe a hot dog--and then finally wander off to play Nintendo instead? In the interest of true energy efficiency, then, how about making a door that the kids can see through? Grocery stores have had them for years. Move the light switch to the outside so you can inspect the contents without opening the door. I figure that a transparent door would be held open for less time and would therefore save more energy than a super efficient motor possibly could. Here's another idea. Most of us operate our refrigerators on the LIFO system--last in, first out. We put stuff in the fridge and the next time we put something in we push back the stuff in front of it. The food that is "lost" at the back of my refrigerator would feed a family of four (not my family of four--by the time we find the stuff
it doesn't qualify as food anymore). Why not have rotating shelves? Just stick a big axle in the center sothat each shelf becomes a rotating disc. I can hear the manufacturers objecting already: round shelves wouldn't work because things would fall off the edge into the corners. Well, why does the refrigerator have to be square? As if we didn't know. Because it has always been square. Well shape up! We're paying almost a thousand bucks for an empty box with a motor and a compressor that Thomas Edison could have made in his garage 100 years ago. The least they can do is spend a few minutes thinking about how people use it. Cars and refrigerators happen to be my own personal pet peeves regarding ergonomic stupidity. I realize that in the case of refrigerators, this just results in inconvenience; but the consequences are much worse for cars (and therefore much more inexcusable). In fact, I have already instructed my heirs to sue the manufacturer of the car I'll be driving when I go to the big Junk Yard in the Sky. Because I know the accident will have occurred while I was equalizing my graphics.
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