Woo-woo in an IT office

WTF?  I just noticed one of the lady managers in this office passing on lucky charms?  And these are not plain, simple adornments.  These are highly priced medallions that some people really believe will quickly bring them the riches.  If this is the level of intelligence of the managers... what can we expect from the subordinates?

So I wonder, what's the standard for deciding whether this stuff works or not?  What's the dividing line beyond which you are entitled to say "Yes, I saw A, therefore this medallion works", or "No, I saw B, therefore this medallion is just a piece of useless crap".

It makes me angry when I see people of some authority promoting woo-woo because lower ranked people who have fallen for this shit just have no salvation from this...  If they see some extra income, they think "Oh yeah, the amulet works!".  If they don't see any extra income, they think "Well, not yet.  The spirits are testing my faith, so I must remain steady".  It's a lose-lose situation.  How sad.

Phishing attacks from Yahoo?

Lately I've started to receive phishing attacks from a real, major idiot.  The guy (or gal) sends me a message pretending to be from Bank of America, but the return e-mail address is something from Yahoo!  A few other times, it's from gmail.com.  WTF?  Is there anybody out there who falls for this?

Dubya speech on Iraq

Just finished listening to the whole speech.  I'm disgusted at how he talks about all the internal fighting and resistance to US occupation as "extremists" and "terrorists".  So, if you oppose the US, then you're by definition a terrorist, right?  Flat wrong.  And also, he talked a lot about Al-Qaeda too, about kicking them out of Iraq and never letting them come back, and I'm like, Dude, Al-Qaeda wasn't part of the picture in Iraq before your guys went in and disturbed the hornet's nest.  WTF are you talking about?

I wonder if there're still are people out there who in their hearts of hearts fall for this crap.  I have a wonderful deal on the Brooklyn Bridge just for them for being such nice guys.  Oh yeah, and if they purchase the Statue of Liberty as well, I'll give them and extra 10% discount.

Horrendous Big Mac

Today for the first time in months I went to have lunch at McDonald's. I did it cause it's right next door to a supermarket and I wanted to buy there something afterwards. I ordered a Big Mac... and man it was insipid. If it's a hamburger lunch, I should've dropped by Burger King. Any sandwich at BK is far better than that freaking Big Mac.

After finishing eating, I went into the supermarket, but couldn't find the spices I wanted, so looking around, I found some white chocolates I like very much were being sold at a discount. So I grabbed one to repair the damage done by McDonald's and went to pay. Finally when it was my turn to pay at the till, the bitch had such an attitude. Maybe it was my fault cause I didn't kiss her in her hand nor bring her any flowers.

Man, I hate shopkeepers that think that they're doing you a special favor when all they're really doing is their job plain and simple. That must be one of the symptoms of having a national average IQ of 80 (eighty). No dude, YOU should be thankful to ME for buying at your store, cause it's thanks to us customers that your boss can pay you your salary moron! Oh, I should mention that the discounted price was only for some sort of club members, so I had to pay the regular high price. I'm never going back to that store.

Tacky ringtone

This morning in the train I heard somebody's phone ring with this song that says something like "You're beautiful!  You're beautiful, it's true!".  I turn around to see whose is it, and it's a guy.  WTF?

Dreadful chicken nuggets

A couple of days ago at the supermarket I found a new brand of ready-to-cook chicken nuggets different than what I usually buy.  Who doesn't like variety?  So I picked one pack and brought home and fried them tonight.

How disappointing, when you fry them the crumbs don't turn golden uniformly.  They burn very easily, so you end up with parts that are decently cooked, and others that are clearly overdone.  But what's worse is the taste!  Even though it's labeled as "Chicken Pops", when you bite into it, it feels in your mouth like those fish meatballs they sometimes put into Chinese soups.  But what is worst, is that they actually taste like fish!  This ain't chicken, no way!

American Idol finale

Last night I was flipping the channels, and was able to see the last 45 minutes, more or less, of American Idol's season finale.  I was very curious because I haven't seen this in many years, and man was I disappointed.

Too much self-congratulation, and in Bette Middler's case, WTF?  She sang "Wind beneath my wings", but she was sprinkling stuff like "God bless", and "bless you".  I don't think the original version had those words in it.  Why do we need proselytizing on a talent contest show?  I was kind of disgusted.

Cheap stuff ends up expensive

What a difference it makes to use more expensive, brand-name CD-Roms.  Last week I spent the whole day burning and testing, and burning and testing, over and over again cause the CD-Roms were all crappy!  I was using some cheap Princo CD-Roms, and I burnt like 22 of them.  After a reportedly "successful" burning, ALL of them ended up being faulty and useless.

How annoying.  I even used two different computers to burn, and I even try doing that from Linux and Windows XP.

Then I went to buy some Sony CD-Roms, which were more than twice as expensive... but what a difference!  The six I needed to burn, were all successful on the first try.  What a relief!  I was starting to think that perhaps my CD reader was bad.  It wasn't.  The problem were those cheap CDs.