Archive for the Pet Peeves category
December 22nd, 2006
It’s enough that the world is filling up with Princesses, Divas, and self-involved Assholes, but why even bother having a blog and inviting people to comment if you’re going to delete all of the comments that disagree with you? If you’re going to do that, could you at least put some sort of warning or disclaimer that only worshipers at your altar should spend time and risk carpal tunnel responding to your every thought, whine, or tribulation?
Tags: pet peeve, bloghopping
December 7th, 2006
I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to read an interesting blog entry and want to comment or join in an on-going comment discussion only to find that you can only comment if you have a Blogger, Google, or Yahoo 360° account. (The worst ones are even more obscure or require registration with the website.)
The absolute last thing I want to do is sign up yet another account where I’m going to have to remember yet another sign-on name and password — because likely my usual sign-on has already been taken and it’s not a good idea to
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Tags: pet peeves, bloghopping, meme, commenting, registration
June 9th, 2006
The other morning, I drove into the parking garage like every other morning. We share it with the hotel next door, some nearby office buildings and the general public. This means that sometimes it’s fuller than others and sometimes there’s a moron or two wandering around. That morning, there was a fully licensed one.
I wasn’t even to the top of the first ramp and there was a car that wanted to back out. I thought to myself about what a lucky break that was. I should have realized that it never is lucky.
As I watched,
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Tags: soap box, pet peeves
May 5th, 2006
So, here I am hoping they’re going to cancel my 4pm Friday afternoon meeting.
And you know they won’t.
In fact, you know they won’t, and you know it’ll run over.
Come on! It’s the first really pretty Friday of the year and I have a new puppy! I want to go home and play!
Tags: the puppy, pet peeves
May 2nd, 2006
I hate it when Firefox and Thunderbird force me to upgrade and all of a sudden more than half of my extensions don’t work anymore and don’t for weeks or ever again…particularly the ones I used all the frickin’ time. 
Tags: pet peeves, Firefox, Thunderbird
February 13th, 2006
The following are the result of hours with nothing to do thanks to the North Eastern seaboard shut down yesterday due to weather as I tried to return from my grandmother’s funeral in Florida to my home in Portland, ME.
September 9th, 2005
If you are going to have your cell phone in the office, particularly if you work in a cube-farm, please be curtious to your cube-neighbors and set it to vibrate or if you have to have a ring tone, please make it something professional and unlikely to disturb your co-workers. Also, keep the ring tone down low. For example, I don’t want to hear a midi of “The Star-Spangled Banner” or the entire “William Tell Overture” over the sound of my conference call or my noise-blocking iPod earphones. It’s bad enough that I have to hear everything
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Tags: pet peeves
July 18th, 2004
Yesterday at the Clam Festival, I stopped to watch the Firemen’s Muster. At the beginning they marched out the American Flag and played the national anthem. I was really disappointed, that in a country that slings around the words “patriot” and “patriotism” like they are compliments, privilleges and duty, very few people removed their hats and just as few people placed their hands over their hearts. In fact, some people who were chattering raised their voices so their mundane conversations could be heard over the music.
Tags: Yarmouth Clam Festival, patriotism
