The Diatribe * net

It’s funny how the little things in life get us so excited sometimes. For instance, the guy that works at the liquor store on my corner is fantastic. Every time I go in there and pay with my debit card, or credit card he does this thing.. He’s got the pen sitting on the side [...]

Every Friday, my office provides bagels for everyone.  I’ve been here for nearly two and a half years and I can count the bagels I’ve eaten on one hand.  They’re just not my thing.  I don’t count carbs, but that’s just a whole lot of bread I can do without.  So, as I’m settling into my workday [...]

I overheard this conversation between two coworkers this afternoon: Dino:   "Yeah, so my dog still hasn’t pissed in his crate yet." Dorito:   "He’s not supposed to…?" It led to the following email volley with two friends of mine (Hardytrain abstained, however).  These email threads are daily occurrences and they’re all called QTF.  They used to be called WTF for what the [...]

My former secretary, Frances, still keeps in touch with me.  God bless her soul, she fills my Hotmail in-box with more cheesy jokes and chain emails than I can keep up with.  When I first started at Company X, she sent them all there until I delicately asked her to redirect them to Hotmail, which [...]

I happened to stumble upon the latest Flickr Development known as ‘Interestingness.’ Their new explore page (see above link), lets you browse through the most popular photos, that are calculated based on their interestingness factor which includes # of people that have the photo marked as their favorite, # of comments, # of connections, [...]