Archive for January 15th, 2004


Kill, kill, kill: A pizza followup

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — 3 Comments
2004.01.15

I realize I must be fussy. My one night alone at home. I ordered the pizza, “Sausage, Green Pepper, Mushroom, and NO CHEESE.” This last part I mentioned at least 3 times. I also asked them to ring my doorbell as I might not see them.

So, 40 minutes after my call. I hear. “Um… Hello?”
I go to the window to see a guy waving at me. I attempt to explain the small medium thing… He doesn’t get it.

I sign the receipt.
I look at the pizza
I take the receipt back and send the guy off with the pizza.
I call back. They said they’d try to have another one back in 20 minutes.
No refunds or discounts mentioned… just they’d try to have another one in 20 minutes.

And the voice of Tyler Durdan rings in my ears, “Clean food please”

I will manage to forget the receipt when the pizza comes back. If he asks for it…

*sigh*

I shouldn’t deal with people when I’ve skipped lunch.

Arrrrgh

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AAAARGGGGHHHH!!! vent Vent VENT!!!

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — 7 Comments
2004.01.15

I deal with this on occasion. Normally it doesn’t bother me. It drives
me nuts however, when people have to push it in my face and honestly
don’t get it.

I just called dominos for dinner. Okay, Wendy’s I’ve gotten used to. I
ordered a small pizza.

“We only have medium”

I thought, ‘Did you people run out of all other crust sizes?’ “You only
have medium”

“That’s our smallest size”

*sigh*

“How many sizes do you have?”

“3, medium, large, and extra large”

*audible sigh*

“I’ll have the smallest pizza you have.”

“You want a medium.”

I think to myself, “NO, YOUR ROARING IDIOT. IF I WANTED MEDIUM WHICH BY
DEFINITION MEANS MIDDLE, I’D HAVE F&#&ING ORDERED MEDIUM.” “Yeah,
sure.”

This country will be destroyed by the revolution of us destroying those
in marketing.

Side note: This is a test of me posting with the new PGP email function.

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New LJ Suggestion: Community Guide

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — Leave a comment
2004.01.15

Yeah, yeah. I know. I take a week off and then become the posting monster. Deal 😉

I posted to LJ’s suggestion board with this. It hasn’t shown up yet (I hope it’s just the moderation and not a submit bug)

I’d love comments from this journal’s readers:

Title:
Community Guide

Short, concise description of the idea:
A yahoo-style hierarchical guide

Full description of the idea:

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Filter removed on previous post

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — Leave a comment
2004.01.15

A post earlier today was filtered ‘friends only’. Ensuing comments have prompted me to open the post publicly.

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And the daily Mac nominations for the Darwin Awards

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — 4 Comments
2004.01.15

First off there is WinExposé

A company has developed and is selling an Apple technology for Windows. They didn’t even opt to change the names. We’ll judge the success of this product on whether or not they paid for the patent rights. If not… expect this company and product to be gone within 2 months.

And from the desk of fuego who does tech support for the Mac:
…so I get this call from a woman wanting to know where the solitaire game was on her computer…I tell her that Macs don’t ship with solitaire, but it can be downloaded all over the internet. She asks me to walk her through downloading because she doesn’t know how to download, then she changes her mind and says she’s not sure she made the right descision buying a mac if it doesn’t come with solitaire.

she’s seriously thinking about taking the computer back (she only got it yesterday)

Ladies and Gentleman. Let me make my first recommendation that this person does in fact need a Dell. It’s all about Solitaire.

I wonder how many Mac users we’ll lose when they find out we don’t package Minesweeper by default either.

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