The Smirker

Wherever there is obfuscation, confoundment, or confuzzalation, the Smirker will be there to add to the confusion.

Firefox fix for right click

I had this problem in the last several days when I did an update of CCcleaner. Somehow, the Yahoo Toolbar for firefox got installed, and I could no longer use the context menus in Firefox.

If you simply go in and uninstall the Yahoo Toolbar from the add-ons in Firefox, this will go away.

At least it did for me!

This facade of congeniality

How much longer can I go on before I drop this veil and just rip off the head of the next person that I speak with? My stomach is turning at the saccharine tone in my voice; I just don't know when it's going to happen, but sooner or later, I'm going to rip into one of these callers and spew their remote innards all over the inside of my imagination.

Cubicle Neighbors

I'm in a box. There are annoying people surrounding me. There are annoying people calling me.

I need a sledgehammer and a handgun.

This is bullshit.

I doubt that mankind was ever meant to sit still in a freaking box all day.

We're Doomed, I tell ya....doomed.

Having worked in IT long enough to realize that it sucks balls, I've evolved a couple of realizations about the whole of humanity as it currently stands. We are a bunch of lazy-asses. Why think for yourself when there's a handy toll-free number that you can call up and pose the dumbest questions that 5 seconds of logical thought on your own could give you the answers you're seeking.
But no, it's not the case...we're lazy. I'll just call this number, and let someone else do my thinking for me!

What a great concept!

Eventually, our society is going to be splintered into two groups. The intelligent people who can think for themselves, and then the hordes of lackadaisical slack-jaws with the barrage of helplessness.

I'm sure that this phenomena has pervaded almost ever strata of our society. So thusly, we're doomed.

How are you doing?

Let's face it, it is one of the most annoying questions in all of the English language. It's way overused, especially in IT, Customer Service, Sales, and other public related occupations. In a day, I quickly lose track of the mindless small talk that ensues as a result of being asked this pointless question. Do you 'really' want to know how I'm doing? Ask me again, I'll punch you in the face. I'm so utterly tired of hearing, "Hey! How are you!" That I could quite literally slit my own throat.
Why is it that our societal response to getting things done in this information rich-age is to kick off the request for action with 'How are you?" Is it polite? Is it congenial? No, it's neither, it's insidious, it's irritating, and it's incredibly inefficient.
As an IT worker, I'd much rather just be given the details of the request, leave me the sanctity of small talk for the girls at the grocery store, or some random person that I meet along the road. If you want me to fix your printer, for godsake, don't ask me how I'm doing because I'd much rather tell you how much I'd like to take your printer out in the parking lot and break it with a sledgehammer.

You bastards!

This is completely ridiculous! I was just writing a blog in this handy little Google gadget, and the page refreshed and all that post gone forever.

Yes, Kenny is dead.

Coughing excessively in public

Why is it that some people who are afflicted with a hacking cough, do nothing to silence it themselves?
All day, in the office, it's from about three cubes over. It's freaking echoing throughout the entire office.

I'm about to go buy the guy some cough drops, cough syrup, and a bottle of whiskey just to shut 'em up.

This is getting ridiculous.

Life in this hell

"Hello, can I help you?" I drone into the phone.

"Who is 'dis?"

"It's support, who's this?"

Dead air.

"Oh well."

10-Watt.

It's been months, maybe a year or more since I've been in the practice of daily writing. Why come here to expound on all things keeping me busy though? No reason at all, truly though. I'm in a lot of contact with working Americans, and I have to say there are some dim bulbs out there in America. The dim are no color, no race, no creed; they are an amorphous mass of zombies pervading our society today.
Can the dim bulbs ever get charged enough to be useful in society? Maybe, maybe not...who knows.

So; I sit and stare into the void. Waiting, for that next phone call. Holding my breath hoping that the dim bulbs of America don't call me into action.

Seriously though, haven't we as a society lost our common sense?