yeah no one is ever going to use this to stalk, harass, or otherwise threaten people who have already blocked every other attempt short of setting their computer on fire.

"Legolas, what do your elf eyes see?"

one of my first call center jobs was with Wells Fargo right in the middle of their clusterf**ed merger with/takeover of First Interstate. So our calls were basically dealing with all the poor people trying to get their bank info transferred from one to the other and figuring out what the heck their credit cards are…

#yesallcallcenters

saving General Leo from Kefka in FF6, however... ;-)

apropos to this weekend being SDCC, my rule for the dealer's room (also swap meet/flea market/multi family garage sale/etc) is to make one pass around the room first and look at everything before buying. If that thing you wanted to buy on the first pass isn't there when you get back, it wasn't meant to be yours. But…

nous congons, vous congez

Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy.

I was on FMLA for 8 months because of stress at a call center; I would be in the middle of a call and suddenly start coughing so badly I would start throwing up. After several physicians and allergists determined that the problem was not a physical reaction I was sent to a psychologist who diagnosed me with stress and…

and heaven forbid you question the rates and metrics you're being held to, because you will soon learn to hate every single word of the phrase: "it's industry standard."

oh and sorry for opening up the raw wound of remembering his existence. My bad.

the only good thing about this movie is the speed at which a Rifftrax will be made of it. Having known and loved all the Steve Reeve/Alan Steele/whoever that other guy was movies skewered by MST3K, I'm pretty sure the only way this movie will be palatable is hearing the dulcet tones of two robots and a guy from…

Uwe Boll? or is he not sufficiently Hollywood?

I thought the problem was the lychee gel, kids were getting them stuck in their throats and unable to breathe. But I will definitely check around and see, thanks :-)

see also: lychee jelly. Man, those things were addictive.

fair use specifically says you can quote up to a certain percentage of the total work. Which is why you can put quotes from HHG on a shirt with no problem, but putting the whole work on a shirt without permission of the rights holder is a big no no.

CORRECTION: according to Peter S. Beagle, Litograph is authorized to sell this shirt. Which is awesome because so many artists on the web are getting their designs ripped off and put on tshirts, it's nice to know there are companies who actually do get permission first.

Looking over their catalog they include The Last Unicorn. Which is most definitely not in public domain. So reprinting the entire text of it is way, way copyright infringement.

Brunching Shuttlecocks.

noticed that today is the 7th anniversary of the publication of Deathly Hallows, which means the series has been over for as long as the whole story took place (how long Harry was at Hogwarts).