Irks and Rants
Ignorance is not knowing.
Stupidity is knowing but still doing the wrong thing.
Stupidity is knowing but still doing the wrong thing.
My Irk List
- Bad: Slow drivers
- Worse: Slow drivers who think it's their job to enforce the speed limit
- Bad: Pompous people
- Worse:Pompous people who don't know anything
- Bad: Tomatoes on sandwiches
- Worse: Tomatoes on sandwiches when you specify they be omitted
- Bad: Being second guessed by "smart" devices
- Worse: Being second guessed by "smart" devices and not having an "override"
option
- Bad: People who honk car horns
- Worse: People who honk car horns in residential areas at 5am
Just plain Bad:
- Spam
- Web pages done in frames
- Telemarketers
- Junk advertisements left on my vehicle
- Front wheel drive
- People who claim to hate Windows and love Linux, but don't really know enough about either OS to really have an opinion either way
- Speed bumps on public roads
- Cashiers who give change bills-first, then place the coins on top of the bills so that they slide off and go everywhere.
- Grocery stores that require customers to sign up for savings club cards.
- People who use merge areas to pass cars during heavy traffic
- Bumper-to-bumper traffic
- Racism
- People who respond to compliments by disclosing their marital status
- People who think that cigarette butts aren't litter
The good things in life:
- Chocolate
- Quiet places
- History
- More chocolate
- Castles
- U2
- Music
- Mountains
- Snow
- Did I mention chocolate?
My favourite actors (in no particular order):
- Diane Lane
- Gene Hackman
- James Cromwell
- Robert Patrick
- Dean Stockwell
- Sam Neil
- Nicole Kidman (Some day I will complete this list)
Some of my mindless rants
Over the years, anger and frustration have driven me to put things to paper. Or webpage if you will. Most of these were written between 1999 and 2001.
General Ramblings
