It is usually with very little delay that I post about negative experiences, especially negative experiences involving bureaucracies. This is understandable because Bureacracies are the perfect hiding place for morons and passive-aggressives. Dealing with such people, when they are in a position where their “decisions” and “mistakes” can affect your life in really significant ways, is extremely frustrating. Dealing with bureaucracies in foreign countries, especially countries famed for sloppy procedure and last-minute rushing, is even more frustrating. But I decided a while back that I would also write about positive experiences, and despite the fact that my local bureaucracy—the department …
Month: June 2005
Happy Nappy
Some friends were researching possible names for a diaper club/service name, and they googled Happy Nappy. Now, if you know British English, you know that nappy means “diaper” in NorAmSpeak. Happy Nappy sounded innocent and cute enough, they thought, and I would tend to agree. A terrible rhyme but fine as a business name. Some fetishists seem to have thought so too. (Safe for work, but not for your mind.) Yes, somewhere in Kent, Southeast England, there is a nursery where you, an adult, can go and be dressed up like a baby, in a real diaper that you can …
The Angry Pedestrian
The following is angry. Cusses and such. Deal with it. If you cannot confront anger then you are a child. Go read Dr. Seuss or something. Because I’ve finally come to the conclusion that my hatred of the car is in full-bloom, pathological or not. This is a rant, and I may disagree with parts of it as soon as tomorrow. But for now, I mean it from my heart. I am an angry pedestrian, and today I figured out why. I bitch about Korean drivers, and yeah, a lot of people drive (even when stone-cold sober) as if they’re …
Things From Today
Here are some things from today: School Things My board usage isn’t that good. I mean that I often don’t organize how things will appear on the board very well, on the spot, and I don’t tend to plan it out much. This isn’t usually a problem, since I tend only to put vital information up and tend to erase a lot as we go along. I usually don’t have to put more than a couple of sentence structures and a list of words to use with them up at one time, if that. But when outlining an exam for …
Pini Blog
If the names Richard and Wendy Pini don’t ring a bell, you probably won’t need to follow this link; if the names are familiar, yes, they have a blog. And they’re still working on stories set in the same world. (Not my kind of thing, but I suppose some people liked it, and I guess I did for a short stretch as a kid.) I tell you, sooner or later everyone will have a blog. Everyone. Including you, if you don’t yet have one.