Archive for March, 2011

Grammar Terrorism

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Posts with mediocre grammar are the power base that enables lolcats. You probably think that the occasional typo or misplaced apostrophe isn’t all that important; but, you’re enabling the radical pidgin posters who use caps lock with abandon and treat vowels, punctuation, and verbs as unimportant, optional parts of the language.

Official: Best Buy Just Doesn’t Care

Monday, March 14th, 2011

…A year later, the nightmare began. Endless spam marketing emails from BestBuyInfo@emailinfo.bestbuy.com, containing my reward zone ID, points status, and of course a ton of promotional information.

Lent, Self-Denial, and Negativity

Friday, March 11th, 2011

With some people, you can’t joke about anything; you can’t even joke about lent. “I’m giving up Catholicism for lent,” or “I’m giving up [something I don’t do].” Not really ha ha funny, but that’s the point. We’re tired and we’ll laugh at anything. But some people have to take everything seriously. Even non-Catholics: “You […]