April 7th, 2006 Rachel
"Hi my name is ______, I wrote you back about the apartment…"
"Oh right, hi! How are you doing?"
"Great, thanks. I just wanted to set up a time to stop by and see the house..where are you located?"
"Um, actually it’s an apartment..two bedrooms…"
"Oh, of course…right, yes…how do I get there?"
"Well, we’re on __________, so you go to ______ and - do you know Aurora well?"
"Oh. <pause> You’re in Aurora?"
"Uh..yeeeeah, in the advertisement it shows that we’re on Yonge street, in Aurora…there’s a Google map link?"
"Huh…yeah, I didn’t look at the map, I just saw you were on _______. Sorry!"
"That’s okay, bye.." <I suppose the mention of ‘Aurora’ THRICE in the advertisement was *also* overlooked…SIGH>
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April 7th, 2006 Rachel
Mindlessly entertaining, but it has a point…
Now, if you’re like me, you may have wanted to see what happened when you DIDN’T click 3 kittens. The response is less funny. Much less funny. I want to see something like "Snickerdoodles…that’s not a kitten!!!"
And while we’re talking kittens, check out this sleepy little one. ALMOST as cute as MJ playing hockey with the Maple Leafs on our TV.
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April 7th, 2006 Rachel
So, I figured my online newsgator account needed a bit of cleaning up. A makeover, if you will. No, not the kind of makeover they gave it when they changed the colors and introduced fancy icons. I’m reading the same stuff from the same sources and besides the quirkiness from the people I know, I’m bored.
They’ve got a few different ways to add feeds - I started with the recommended ones. Here’s what came up as "highly rated":
Notice anything interesting? 6 of the top 20 are fromdel.icio.us. Pretty good, since I was reading something the other day that called it a ‘fad’ (darn thing about reading actual magazines…much more difficult to source it. I believe it was CIO.)
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April 7th, 2006 Rachel
Oh right, like that makes this any better.
An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of
its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been
"tagged" electronically as a way of identifying them.
CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it
was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room
where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the
police.
Something tells me this isn’t going to end, either well or at all. Ah, the good old days where you didn’t need a something *implanted* in you to get the job. Yikes.
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April 7th, 2006 Rachel
Funny comics from my grandma…here’s my favorite:
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