Category: oops
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Work life balance? Not really.
And in this week’s justice kerfuffle, Sault Ste. Marie is the place, a nondescript courtroom is the setting, and 10 suspects in a drug trafficking charge are the lucky winners. An undercover cop from out of town couldn’t make the first day of the trial on account of a minor … Read the rest
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This news story practically mocks itself.
It should surprise no one that it came out of Texas. Guy tries to rob a bank, gets caught. Police start suspecting it might have been an inside job. Discover not only was it an inside job, but a very stupidly executed one. One of the tellers who works–okay, … Read the rest
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Good idea: getting to probation on time. Bad idea: breaking your probation to do so.
And here we have one of my reasons for creating, and then recreating, this blog. And just on a day when I didn’t think I’d have much newsworthy to snort over. Out in Alberta, we have a teenager with some pretty no-nonsense conditions on his staying out of jail. Like, … Read the rest
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I am renaming August to the month of Broken.
The month is just over half over, and already things have gone and decided breaking is the thing to do. It started last week, with the near breaking of my plans to return home this past weekend–plans that were changed for other reasons, which will be elabourated on once the … Read the rest
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They’ll be arrested for smoking pot, but experimenting with ecstasy’s okay.
Sometimes, the department of national defense really screws with my head. I think they do it on purpose. Soldiers suffering from PTSD won’t be prescribed marijuana, which the folks on the pro-legalisation and/or decriminalisation side of the issue say can and does help with situations like that among other things. … Read the rest
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This is decidedly not the job I left 2 years ago.
I worked for Dell until mid-2008. They decided around then my job would be much better done from a call center in India. Flash forward to last week or so. One such Indian technical support agent had apparently been called up to help her find and view pictures a customer … Read the rest
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Google Wave is finally out of its misery. Only took too damn long.
Does anyone actually even remember remotely considering doing something relatively useful with Google Wave? A few geek blogs I follow were all over it when it first opened up–hell, even Mike was singing its praises for a time. It was supposed to be the thing to replace email/twitter/facebook/what have you. … Read the rest
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I take back every bad thing I ever said about SP3. Ever.
I have a long and complicated history with Windows XP’s service pack 3. Mostly, it consists of me installing it and it doing all manner of bad things to the machine it’s installed on–like, for instance, being partially responsible for the temporary breakage of an internet connection. Recently though, I’ve … Read the rest
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Where’s Jeff Foxworthy when you need him?
Only in Quebec. A guy ends up with a property tax bill upwards of 200000 dollars. He’s not exactly enthused with the rate of increases to his taxes, and decides to make a point of telling the folks down at city hall exactly that by showing up, one assumes on … Read the rest
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I always said there should be a law against morons.
Of course, I didn’t exactly expect anyone would actually take me seriously. Now I know better. Guy gets in some hot water for drinking at a beach where alcohol’s not permitted. Okay, slap on the wrist, you’d think–this is Canada, after all. Except rather than give his actual name, he … Read the rest
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