Until I went to the US I'd not seen a card with only a magnetic stripe.

Perfecting a fake laugh and learning to smile regardless of mood can get you a long, long way in customer service.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

Writing a single sentence for a cartoon can take an hour or more.

I had a vm I saved from Christmas that was clearly a drunk dial from an office party to our work queue vm. It was awesome

My trade secret is that sometimes in education you have to hear no in order to learn and grow. You can either want your son or daughter to get amazing customer service at their college where they are never told "no" for anything. Don't like your grade? We'll change it. Don't like your roommate? We'll move you. Etc.…

Someday my job will be done by a machine, but they will pay me more to make sure it does a good job.

Your college professors only read the first and last 2 or 3 pages of your 30 page papers. And, only the first paragraph and last page of your "creative" writing. We don't read your poetry assignments at all.

A massage therapist's trade secret is Tai Chi. One the most heard comments that comes my way is "Your arms and hands must get tired!". And the honest answer is they do not. If you stand with your knees bent and move your lower body with Tai Chi movements, the strength of the massage with come from your core instead…

But the Nigerian prince offering me of of cash for nothing but my social security number and bank account is real right? RIGHT?!?

The trick to really convincing fight choreography isn't "how to fake it", it's "how to do it for real, safely".

Of course, it would be better, more complex story if Unalaq isn't the evil mastermind behind the Dark Spirits... but, well, we are all to genre savvy. You didn't even have to be savvy of any other genres. Unalaq steps right in the footsteps of the anatagonists of the first season and similiar political douchebags of…

So now we have some of Aangs life as a parent. Now I want the others. There is little to no explanation for Sokka and Suki. Or Zuko as the firelord... I know the comics are doing that now but what about how they were as parents? In the comic it looks like sokka and suki are not doing to well and same with zuko and…

Blegh. Not enjoying LoK unfortunately. It has many problems, but the principle issue this season has been WAY too much tell and WAY too little show while failing to actually communicate. It has attempted to construct a complex political plot while also failing to explain the fundamentals involved. Korra's shady…

What I really like about the Air Family dynamic is that it's imperfect but understandable. The entirety of airbending, and an entire culture, rests on Tenzin's shoulders. One can't really blame Aang, who was also busy with his Avatar duties, TOO much for giving Tenzin extra attention. I'm imagining the case is that…

I did feel this episode was wildly uneven. The Korra parts were shallow and made Korra herself look pretty dumb. She's literally doing the exact same thing she did last season, siding with an oppressive regime against people she should be protecting.

okay this just seems weird that the avatar series would be alot better without that actual avatar

Wow, you are so optimistic about Korra. I wish I felt that way. I had hopes that season 2 would fix the problems in season 1, but the characterization at the get-go of season 1 is horribly weak or regressive in some cases and then just horribly forced in others. The sibling argument was a good example of a case of…

The biggest problem with korra is that it isn't trying to pretend it is a kids show. Civil war and discrimination are not issues you generally put in kids media. The network wants it to be a kids show, but it isn't. it's in a weird limbo where it wants to try for more adult subject matter but has to keep ratcheting…

So am i the only one going "i want to know whats up with tenzins daughter and that wierd spirit avatar statue thing" more than "and back to avatar korras cavalcade of dramuh"?