12 December, 2009

Stupid Heads

This is where I live.
Is it too much to ask that my kids’ teachers know at least a little more than my kids?  I’m constantly getting emails from school staff with horrible grammar, misspellings, and, of course, what I call the spastic colon (is it really that hard to understand that plural’s don’t get colon’s [...]

December 12th, 2009 | Thought It | , | 5 comments
3 December, 2009

Shit That’s Got To Stop

If I were king (not queen, not prince, not duke)
I’m the first to admit that I’m easily irritated.  At least once a day (though I’ll admit that number can go as high as 40 or 50 times a day), I’ll complain to Joanna about something that really “irritates the shit out of me” (an expression [...]

December 3rd, 2009 | Thought It | , | 27 comments
1 December, 2009

Barnes & Noble Delays nook Shipment

Gives textbook lesson on how NOT to treat customers.
Note: This article originally appeared on Technorati.
Everyone knew that the Barnes & Noble nook (yes, they irritatingly spell it with an e.e. cummings-style lower case “n”) eReader would be popular. EPUB, eReader and native PDF support, memory expansion, Wi-Fi , the ability to share books among [...]

December 1st, 2009 | Thought It | , , | 3 comments