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Hump Day Blues

February 1st, 2006

I’m in a foul mood today. What good is having a blog if you can’t rant a bit?

  • To doctor X: We had an appointment at 11am. You called and asked us to change it to 10am. We were your first patient of the day, we came at 10 and you didn’t see us until well after 11. There is a special circle of hell reserved for you and they have nothing to read there but three year old copies of NewsWeek.
  • To the girl next to me at lunch: You sent back your lunch because you weren’t satisfied with the tomatoes. You ordered a dish with raw tomatoes on February first! What kind of tomatoes did you think you were going to get?
  • To our local librarian: You close at 5pm on weekdays! Do you think no one both reads and works?
  • PHP Flash Cards: Memorizing trivia with flash cards is not “honing your skills” its “cramming for a test.” (see expert and novice programmers) On the other hand, writing a PHP flash card application IS honing your skills.
  • To the World Economic Forum: long political rant self censored. I did promise no more politics here.

I guess thats all the rant i have left in me. Back to work.

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8 Responses to “Hump Day Blues”

  1. Jeff says:
    2/1/2006 at 8:36 pm

    Well, there are blog posts that you can be proud of and there are those that you aren’t. Sometimes the most interesting ones are the the ones that make you nervous when you go to hit publish. This is probably one where I should have hit delete instead of publish. Its a few hours later, i’ve eaten and am in a much better mood and I don’t think this is one of the ones I’m going to be proud of. I’m tempted to hit delete now, but I think that is a bad habit to get into. Welcome to my blog, where there are good days and bad.

  2. Harry Fuecks says:
    2/2/2006 at 2:56 am

    In the sense of supportive ranting…

    Also have a similar Doctor Y, who is (at least predictably) 30 minutes late on every appointment. Considering what they get paid, it’s one of those things that makes fathers push their kids in that direction (vs. becoming a nerd, for example).

    The only problem there in Europe (and similar applies to legal professions which are perhaps more respectable here that in the US) – your education doesn’t travel well so becoming a Doctor in Switzerland pretty much means you’re staying in Switzerland for life – even up the road in Germany they won’t let you practice without localized training.

    But on the subject of ranting, thing there isn’t enough of it on blogs. The medium (at least in nerd circles) tends to force everyone in a squishily “nice” direction. Where some of this “Long Tail”, “Web 2.0″ stuff is concerned, think 2006 should be the year where the “Early Adopters” being with the 50 points where the technology they adopted sucks then rave about the one thing is does well.

  3. rita says:
    9/13/2010 at 6:08 pm

    The only problem there in Europe, think 2006 should be the year

  4. jessictiffany says:
    8/12/2011 at 8:02 pm

    Farrah is invigilated behind the banged to rights orphic crevasse

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    11/14/2011 at 2:16 am

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  6. Chaussre Air Jordan says:
    11/14/2011 at 2:16 am

    vue de face montrant sur un fond blanc. Le visage doit être comprise entre 1 et 1 3 / 8 pouces à partir du menton au sommet de la tête. Chapeaux, coiffures et uniformes, sauf mot de vêtements religieux quotidiens ne peuvent pas être portés.

  7. Toney Minus says:
    1/10/2012 at 5:18 am

    Fantastic to get too watch our lads train it must of made your year or should i say along with our Champions league spot and cup ha. So sad about big Tom lets hope they get it right this time i cant believe how our medical staff aloud his ankle too become so unstable . The fault must lie with our medical staff i think all our troubles stem from training on a different surface too our award winning pitch at White hart Lane . Lets hope our new training complex solves this with a pitch identical to our stadiums Lets hope he has a speedy recovery and the prognoses is good because we will miss is great passing and shooting

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