I gave up on clearing my throat to get the attention of others who are preoccupied. It has lost its effectiveness in these modern times, so as a course of action, I’ve evolved and developed a new method of getting attention.
I now make retching noises. This has a highly effective 100% success rate. [...]
Archive for the 'Rants' Category
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- Jan
Clearing Your Throat for Attention
0 Comments Filed January 29th, 2008 in Humor, Personal and Rants.- 01
- Nov
I’m one of those gamers who has the severe stuttering problem with Dark Messiah. It’s been a week and a patch still hasn’t come out. This stuttering situation is the same problem that occurred in Half-Life 2, and was a problem for me in The Ship and the first SiN Episodes game. Other games using [...]
- 23
- Oct
As I’m reading the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly talking about Gears of War, I saw the words “hardcore gamers” in a sentence. I scoffed at the notion of console gamers as hardcore gamers. There’s nothing hardcore about console games and the gamers that play them, with maybe a very slight exception to fighting [...]
- 18
- Sep
I’m not one to really mull over bad calls in a sports game, but when it affects such a stellar performance by a freshman, and nearly costs the team the game, it has me really annoyed.
Here’s a video of the bad calls that was the reason why the game between the Florida Gators versus the [...]
- 17
- Aug
A lot of people dislike lawyers, they have a bad reputation among the plebes of the world. That’s understandable; the vast majority of them are greedy, conniving bastards. However I wonder why people in marketing and sales don’t have as bad a reputation as lawyers. Those in press relations annoy the [...]
- 03
- Aug
I can’t check my email because Google has decided to lock me out. According to Google, I’m using a 3rd party application they don’t support, except I’m using their own provided software, Gmail Notifier, to check my email. This is the message they give me:
Our system indicates unusual usage of your account. [...]
- 31
- Jul
While checking out Internet Explorer 7’s (beta) ability to render webpages, I’ve found that GoDaddy won’t let me use their site without telling me that my browser is old, and isn’t standards-compliant.
The first mistake they made, is assuming the browser I’m using is old. The second mistake is that they claim it’s because the [...]
