Dear Reader, To begin with, can we stop using the word Dear. Dear means beloved, precious, priceless, or rare. I don’t have that kind of relationship with my phone company, nor do I want one. We can still be friends,…
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Greetings and Salutations (and Other Insincere Forms of Expression)
Tagged with: annoyed, comedy, complaining, culture, Happy New Year, humor, lose weight now, miscellaneous, random nonsense, silliness, snarkiness, truth, whining
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting, Word Nerd
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting, Word Nerd
We Appreciate Your Feedback (or No Experience Needed)
So, I haven’t had a good rant in a while, so here goes. I recently took to the web in search of a new job, and I came across some corporate pages that made me want to chuck my mouse…
Tagged with: annoyed, complaining, Human resources, humor, miscellaneous, Pop-up ad, random nonsense, Résumé, silliness, snarkiness, technology, Website, whining
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Xboner Outrage (or Eat Your Virtual Vegetables)
Recently Xbox finally revealed their next generation gaming platform to a ranting chorus of dismay from gamers everywhere. First of all, it was less of a reveal and more of a tease. The presentation itself had the feel of corporate…
Tagged with: annoyed, complaining, entertainment, geek, Microsoft, nerd, Skype, snarkiness, whining, Xbox, Xbox One, YouTube, YouTube video
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
You’re Going to Have To Do Better Than That
If you’re like me, sometimes it can be a little hard to get motivated. All too often this: can feel like this: But then I got to thinking that maybe it’s not me, it’s them. There’s a whole segment of…
Tagged with: comedy, humor, miscellaneous, random nonsense, satire, snarkiness
Posted in Blog, Insidious Inspiration
Posted in Blog, Insidious Inspiration
RIP Discovery Channel (or Television Is Getting Unreal)
So, I’m watching Mythbusters (because explosions), and I get distracted for a moment and forget to skip through the commercials. That’s when I see it. The trailer for a brand new show – Alien Mysteries. *sigh* I remember when Discovery…
Tagged with: annoyed, Bigfoot, complaining, corporations, Discovery Channel, entertainment, History, History Channel, humor, Mark Burnett, MonsterTalk, random nonsense, silliness, snarkiness, The Learning Channel, zombies
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
I Don’t Want To Belong To Any Club That Will Accept People Like Me As A Member (or Do You Want An App With That?)
So, it seems that almost every time I go to a website on a mobile device these days, I am constantly nagged about installing a new app that will give me all the latest goodies. Please, just stop. No, really,…
Tagged with: annoyed, complaining, corporations, Loyalty program, miscellaneous, random nonsense, snarkiness
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Dictionary.com Takes A Huge Dump On Nerd Culture (or Let’s Get Hashtag Epic Fail Trending)
WARNING: This post is tl;dr and contains much snarkiness and nerdiness. I have used both the dictionary.com website and the app for a while now, mostly when I want a quick second opinion about a definition, and I am not…
Tagged with: annoyed, Blog, complaining, culture, dictionary.com, geek, humor, miscellaneous, nerd, random nonsense, satire, silliness, snarkiness, whining, writer, writing
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
Verbatim Gibberish 
The Next Big Thing in Social Media (or Find Out Who Your Real Friends Are)
So, I have the next great idea for social media. It’s a site where everyone can post to it except the person who it’s about. It’s like the complete opposite of Facebook where it’s all about you. There will be…
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting