Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
This is definitely my kind of humor. Whenever I find out the hard way that my ISP has set me up with a router model that is known to be out-of-date, or start doing a bunch of goofy crap for no reason at all, or my cable company didn’t configure something right, or the land-line phone company left some switchbox a block away all messed up, and I lose minutes and hours to just that basic step of figuring out something isn’t working right, then have to hop from one phone representative to another until someone ‘fesses up — my standard comeback has come to be “What the hell do OLD people do when they subscribe to your service?”
Because that’s the world from which I come — that customer service isn’t put together & working properly, until it can work with the folks who, we used to say…”their talents lie elsewhere.” Apparently, that idea has gone out of fashion. Which means I’m now one of the old people.
That was how many ‘W’s?
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That’s a riot.
- Andy | 10/18/2008 @ 10:18Amen to this one..
I get so fed up when I call them and very carefully explain to them that I have been working in the IT business since 1984 and I KNOW that the problem is on their end and they want to read from their book of scripts anyway.
Bring our jobs home and put common sense back in supporting us OLD people, that I am now one of.
Virgil
- vbierschwale | 10/18/2008 @ 13:33http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com
Which means I’m now one of the old people.
Well… me, too. And like Virgil, I’m not at all shy about letting the support folks know I have a clue or two about what the problem just might be (their reax to an Ol’ Fart talking about DNS servers was really amazing to watch the first time I went in to their offices). About which… The interesting (and wonderful) thing about small town living is I can walk into my ISP and talk directly with a techie or the manager of the tech group. No clue-free and English-impaired Help Desk workers in Bangalore… no Help Desk at ALL, actually. Just real, live techies who actually FIX my problems… face to face. Imagine that.
Now my cable company is another can o’ worms…
- Buck | 10/18/2008 @ 14:14