Like using it to get rid of crack-snorting customers at a bar.
Month: January 2005
You Thought Musical Ring Tones Were Annoying?
Can you imagine sitting next to somebody at the bus stop, in the office, etc… who has installed a MoanTone on their phone? That’s just what we need in a crowded, quiet, theatre is somebody sounding like they’re having sex in the back row. Full story.
Why Pixar Rules
“We don’t make movies for kids. We make movies for adults, actually ourselves. Kids are born intelligent, and there’s no good reason to make dumbed-down entertainment for them.” Right on.
Life Saving Tips
If you’re going to be travelling in an area where you could be buried in alive in your car under an avalanche of snow, make sure you bring lots of beer so you can drink and urinate your way out of it.
Best Marketing Gimmick Ever
Somebody in the Starbucks marketing department needs a good pat on the back for this little stunt. A holiday advertising gimmick placed atop cabs in Boston in recent weeks has been fooling motorists who continually mistake the ad for a Starbucks cup left on the roof. The full story is here, with pictures of the gimmick here. More info here. Links via Starbucks Gossip, where you can find wonderful tidbits about how some people can visit any of the 169 Starbucks outlets within 5 miles of their house.
Woman Arrested For Deleting Ex’s Game Data
There are two sad things about this. One, that they’d actually arrest somebody for this and two, that the guy’s game data was so important that he felt the need to have the woman arrested. Full story, via Aaron.
Coffee Drinkers Don’t Care About Contaminated Water
All Starbucks in the Phoenix area were closed because of contaminated water problems the area was having. Sadly, caffeine-addicted freaks didn’t care, and were even willing to sign a waiver, to get their Starbucks fix. Full Story.
Things NOT To Do When Being Interviewed
We’re currently interviewing for a front desk position here at Sunray (we’re still looking for the right person, so e-mail me your resume if you’re that person). We just had someone come through the office that was the most brutally honest person I’ve ever met in my entire life. There are just some things you try to avoid discussing during a job interview, if you can avoid it, but I almost want her here because she was so honest (and she was actually very nice).
We have standard questions we ask in every interview. One of them is “If there’s one thing you could improve upon, what is it?” Her answer? “Well, I’m not the most punctual person in the world, and I’m frequently late for my job.”
Okaaaaay…How about driving record? “I’ve gotten a couple speeding tickets, and I currently don’t have insurance on my car.”
It slowly gets worse… Do you have any felony convictions in the last 10 years that haven’t been expunged by a court of law, blah blah (and we’ve never had anybody actually answer “Yes” to this)? “I have a felony possession of a stolen weapon on my record, but only because I was the lease holder on the apartment that the gun was found in, and it was my old roommate’s gun.”
So we gave her an application to fill out, and she gets to the part on the form where it asks if they’ll consent to drug tests at random intervals, etc… . She asks how often they would be, and we said that she’d probably get one in her first 90 days, and then randomly thereafter. “Sorry for wasting your time, but I wouldn’t be able to pass,” and she sets down the application, says a polite goodbye and leaves our office.
I have to say, that was the most entertaining interview I’ve ever sat in on.
Buster Bunny’s Lesbian Adventure
It’s amazing to me the idiots who seem to think that a children’s TV program that casually mentions something remotely related to lesbianism is somehow going to turn all children into gays. This is your tax dollars at work here, folks.
The nation’s new education secretary denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters, saying many parents would not want children exposed to such lifestyles.
The not-yet-aired episode of “Postcards From Buster” shows the title character, an animated bunny named Buster, on a trip to Vermont — a state known for recognizing same-sex civil unions. The episode features two lesbian couples, although the focus is on farm life and maple sugaring.
The episode information was removed from PBS’s site, but it still remains in the Google Cache. Quoting the page:
While there, we visited Emma, David, and James, who live with their two moms, Karen and Gillian. Karen and my mom used to work at the same newspaper together.
Oh yeah, that’ll make all children turn gay. Idiots.
Criminy, if the United Church of Christ can accept gay characters with open arms, why can’t our government?
Links via a variety of places, but mostly Jeff Jarvis.