Hah! sarameg, it was you and ita I was thinking of specifically when I told mom that heads would go splodey. She also had a whole rant about people wanting things with radio buttons and checkboxes instead of tab and type.

Yesterday a co-kravver came up to me and said he was looking for a specific image for something to do with the video games he's part of producing, and did I know anyone who could help.

He totally claims he was going to ask me if I'd help, but didn't want to lead out that way.

The specific image? A woman's cleavage. Just cleavage. No face. Dude, you better put my rack appreciation a little sooner in your pitch for help.

I am miffed, not to mention wounded.

Great. Suddenly I am become all punctuation paranoid. Should that comma really go there? Am I punctuating for grammar or am I punctuating for breathing space?

This is how the rules get degraded.

Vortex is totally my hero.

Indeed.

I would be very uncomfortable with the memory wipe thing. I already have big fear issues with being put under. Ick, don't want me brain messed with.

Also, I am going to pay more attention to people possibly putting stuff in people's drinks in the future. Damn.

I'm lovin' it. McDonalds has asked the Oxford English Dictionary to change its definition of "McJob." Since 2003, the OED has defined it as "an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by the expansion of the service sector.” Mickey D's house lexicographer claims that such a definition "is out of date, out of touch with reality and most importantly it is insulting to those talented, committed, hard-working people who serve the public every day." Actually, the two definitions don't conflict at all; the OED just bothers to mention that service sector jobs are poorly paid. Maybe it should redefine "minimum wage" while it's at it; something like, "An artificially high, mandated wage that prevents the creation of exciting opportunities for talented, committed, hard-working people who want to make people smile." Hopefully, OED will stick to its guns. Otherwise, they may have to redefine "chutzpah," too.

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Mickey D's house lexicographer

You are shitting me.

You are shitting me.

I assumed that phrase was sarcastic.

I assumed that phrase was sarcastic.

"Corporate weasel" was probably a little too on-the-nose.

Oh, then I'm sadly disappointed if it's not actually true. I was having fun envisioning the ad they had to put together.

I think I just heard erinaceous spit coffee on her monitor.

OK, the McDonnalds guy they quote is "David Fairhurst, chief people officer in northern Europe for McDonald’s."

Whatever the fuck a chief people officer is....

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