Archive for the 'Ridiculing Stupidity' Category
Fortunately, I am the kind of person who almost never has to use customer service. Phone support essentially equates to delayed, inaccurate solutions. I have been giving advice to a friend about building a computer recently and, sadly, he requires Windows. I tried to find out which version of XP Pro would [...]
I did my monthly logging in to MySpace in order to delete the various spam friend requests and was greeted by the advertisement seen in the screenshot when I logged out. Big changes were made in Internet advertising when the thought of “context” was introduced; an ad for video games is more likely to [...]
First off, let me say that if it really was MySpace, there would be no spam. I received a MySpace newsletter in my Gmail inbox today. The subject had been altered by SpamAssassin, which suspected the newsletter was spam, just as a previous one was. I thought, “That’s strange. I thought [...]
A rubric is designed to give some sort of quantifiable assessment, overshadowed with a sense of fairness. Though rubrics can lead to a very mechanical, disconnected approach to reviewing assignments, they do have a place in the education system. Unfortunately, many educators do not really think about how a given rubric works.
Apparently, Matt Damon was named the sexiest man alive. I never really thought I was the best looking guy out there, but now I am thinking I am a close second or third. It’s pretty standard practice for magazines to put a fair bit of work into touching up a photo that goes [...]
