The Online Rant

Here is another comic from XKCD that really hit just a little too close to home. I’m always forgetting peoples names. And I’m usually too embarrassed to admit that I forgot the name and ask again. Which is stupid. I’d be much better off just admitting I forgot than trying to find out through some underhanded and usually stupid method.

I’ve even been roped into doing things I didn’t want to do,just because I couldn’t remember the person’s name who asked me to do it. Nothing quite as extreme as the comic above, but still not something I would have done.

I’ve tried all the tricks the books talk about to help you remember the names of people you meet, but none of them seem to work for me. I guess I’ll just have to put up with being embarrassed. Hopefully I can at least keep from getting into as bad a situation as the character in the comic. LOL

Found the above comic on xkcd. It seemed so relevant that I just had to post it here.
How often have you waited to respond to an email or to post on a blog, because you didn’t have anything interesting happening in your life to post or email about?
Often, I’ll get a personal email from someone and I won’t answer it for a while. Not because I don’t want to answer it, or because I don’t have time, but rather because I can’t think of anything interesting to say. I don’t want to write boring or short messages. So I wait until something happens in my life that I can write about. Since a huge portion of my life is the Internet, that makes it kind of ironic. Doesn’t it?

Got this exciting email from my brother today. The email is in reference to an insurance dispute that we are having with our agent. I’m not sure how this happened. It seems that while we took the same English and writing classes in college, he doesn’t seem to have gotten the same content out of them. LOL The text below is exactly how he sent it to me. The only difference is that I replaced names of people he referenced with pseudonyms. But I left capitalization of those names as he sent them.

spoke with jane who eventualy gave me john smith the owner he faxed me something saying sorry and that he was doing everything he could also he included the name of rep with insurance company that said we had a 15 day grace period past that date of the 20th before coverage is interupted were gonna file a complaint and switch insurance companys and im gonna check my business law book because we had a reasonable expectation this would be taken care of and this happened due to there error so we might have some legal standing to sue ethier way we’ll call tomorrow and make sure our mortgage company overnighted it jamie don’t bother emailing back don’t get yours and dad I also spoke with your lady and we setup time on Friday to talk and then im gonna listen to some calls I still tonight am gonna apply and submit my resume which if you have time later tonight maybe you can help me

I had to read it a few times, just to make sure I didn’t miss anything. There isn’t a single period or punctuation mark in the entire email. The only word he capitalized, was “Friday.” Just had to laugh when I read it. What makes Friday special?

A friend of mine posted this pic on her profile in facebook. I couldn’t resist posting it here.
I love the motto on the side. “Eat spit be happy” I wonder who’s idea it was to put something like that on their packaging. I am definitely going to write this on the whiteboard in my office tomorrow morning. Just to see what kind of reactions I get from my coworkers.