Category Archives: People suck

At least my day at work was never this bad

Apropos of nothing, well, apropos of the Get Smart episode we watched last night that included a CONTROL agent who was also a snotty opera diva – I was reminded of the horror stories I had once heard about Kathleen Battle. Remember her?

If not, fire up the Wayback Machine and read this old Time [...]

Information age

Comedian Don McMillan describes nearly every PowerPoint presentation I have ever seen:

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The space alien missed his time leap

There was a man on the Metro today who was sporting both a Walkman cassette player and a digital watch.

The Shuffle Runner

There’s this guy who lives nearby and gets home in the evening around the same time I do, so he frequently passes me in his scramble out of the subway station.

He’s an odd dude – he has a sort of gait that you might use if you wanted to hurry it up in your last [...]

OoOOOOooooooo!!!

Yesterday’s commuting annoyance was an activity which, in itself, is not necessarily offensive when carried out in an appropriate location. It was a few young women in my apartment building, about college-age (do I get to call them girls yet? How old do I have to be?), and one of them had apparently [...]