Learning for people Who Can’t Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.

Not negotiating probably cost me around $10,000 a year for several years.

Dropping weight vs. losing weight.

If you want people to show up at 4:50—tell them to arrive at 4:50. If you want everyone seated at 5:00—tell them to be seated by 5:00.

Don’t use all-caps :P

BCC: Don’t do it.

If I had a time machine, I would buy some property in Vancouver.

It doesn’t make much sense for the landlord to increase the rent of a good tenant beyond paying off their mortgage. The cost/risk of finding a new tenant can quickly offset any perceived gains.

How to tell opinion apart from established fact.

“Friendly fire” well within the acceptable criteria.

What if I have a really shiny mirror (jokingly).

I want a Rambo game where you spend twenty minutes trying to put your friend’s guts back in place and keep him alive.

Sounds like you are working hard and saving the company from having to hire an extra worker.

. . . that will work their resources hard then dump them.

That’s how it works: the employer has to pay for skill and experience. Having someone give you the correct answer and you shaking them up like magic eightball won’t change reality—you’re after a lie instead—what you want to hear, which is make-believe. Quick, cheap, good: pick one or two, you can’t have all three.

And here I thought hierarchal business models were très passé.

It’s like people who are for giving their rights away can’t understand totalitarianism.

There’s also the .50-0.99. . . that you round up to one.

I’ve used Oldtimer’s List-it (OTL) which I find decidedly better than HijackThis. I don’t remember the last time I’ve ‘had’ to use it though.

I was really bad during the Windows XP era. Almost every download site then had software that was bundled with spyware, adware, or some other putrid annoyance; I was going to CNET’s Download.com at the time and I was getting “infected” with crapware. My computer was hijacked and I was annoyed: WHY DIDN’T THE ANTIVIRUS…