Posts with the tag "rant"

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More credit card offers...from Miami University?


Sound the rant alert. I've written here before about how much I don't like getting credit card offers in the mail, but I've learned to deal with it. Or, I thought I had. Then came the onslaught of offers from the Miami University Alumni Association for a card branded by Miami - [...]

"Apprentice" Season Two Checklist


Mark Burnett's checklist for Season Two of "The Apprentice" (yes, I watch that crap, leave me alone):

Elevate Donald Trump to the status of demigod through not-so-subtle use of regal music and flattering camera angles. Check.
Exploit women for profit while using Carolyn's "strong character" to take the moral high ground. Check.
Breaking the stated rules [...]

Please don't use "itch" as a transitive verb


Even though it's apparently technically legitimate, one of my biggest pet peeves is the use of the word "itch" as a verb, as in "he itched the bug bite". Blech. I double over and cringe in disgust. You scratch a bug bite, or an itch, or anything similar. You don't itch [...]

Sprint PCS needs to run cron jobs more often


Fair warning: this post is pure rant.
I have a Sprint PCS phone that I use as my primary, and only, home phone line. There are tons of reasons why I like this arrangement, which I won't go into here, but I've been a loyal, pay-on-time Sprint customer for several years now. Which [...]

Gas Pump Buffer Overflow


Random rant: In 1970, Intel produced a memory chip, the first, capable of storing 1 kilobyte of data - a couple of paragraphs of text or so. Today, one can obtain memory chips that store many gigabytes of data - enough to hold entire movies, encyclopedias, and more - for mere hundreds of dollars. [...]