My friend Jason posted on his blog about a car that is for sale. Even if you have no desire to buy a 1994 Ford Taurus, you should head over to his blog and check out the listing.

If you don't find it at least mildly entertaining, you should get your humor-meter checked.

Labels: humor

I was going to write about today's Dilbert comic, but I never really got around to it. Basically, I found it extremely funny because I find myself thinking/saying some of those same things pretty regularly.

I know I posted about my dislike for lengthy posts before. It is safe to assume that I feel the same way about emails. Yes, I realize that I am a hypocrite because I have been known to send out lengthy emails. However, I have also been known to put an abstract at the top of the email for those who only want the facts

Signing off before anyone gets to the point of "email schmemail blah...blah...blah".

Labels: blogosphere, humor, indiscriminate

Yesterday's Dilbert comic made me chuckle to myself, and today's comic made me laugh out loud. They both addressed things I loathe in email communication.

The first is when the original message is removed from the response email. This bugs me because I like to save emails, but I don't want to have to save every email in the thread. I would rather be able to save the final email in the thread and have it contain all the communication. However, the bigger problem is when you get an email that has answers to questions, but you don't remember exactly what you asked in the original email.

Let's say you get this email:

Subject: RE: Tonight...
Let's meet at Benny's before we go get Tony. I'll bring the knife.

Is this about the plans to meet your friend Gino at Benny's place before you go pick up your friend Tony on your way to a birthday party where you are bringing the knife to cut the cake? Or, is this in response that other thing you are planning?

Now, I realize that there are email systems out there that remove the initial message from the response1. Those email systems should be destroyed and not given a reason why. Maybe somehow we could send them a message like this with no original message attached.

RE: System Update
That's why we are decommissioning you.

I think that would be appropriate.

I'll discuss today's comic later.

1. ↩Wake County, could you please take some of my tax dollars and get a new flippin' email system. And, while you are at it, can you get someone to update your web server so you can serve wcpss.net with out me having to tack on www. to the front. Thanks.

Labels: blogosphere, humor, indiscriminate

I saw this on another blog. It may only be interesting to computer geeks, but it's somewhat humorous.

Labels: blogosphere, humor, politics