Month: July 2004

Categories
Rant

An Imagined Dialog Highlighting the Deficiencies of Our Educational System

Fast Food Patron: I’d like the fish sandwich value meal, please.

Voice in Ordering Box: That’ll be $5.43. Drive up to the first window, please.

FFP: Okay.

(Fast Food Patron drives up to First Window and hands Cashier at First Window a $20 and a $1.)

Cashier at First Window: That’ll be $4.99, please.

FFP: (confused) What about tax?

CaFW: Yeah… (pauses) What?

FFP: What about sales tax? You said $4.99. There’s tax, too.

CaFW: Yeah. (studies register, then nods) Yeah. That’s $4.99.

FFP: (resignedly) Okay!

(Fast Food Patron reaches through First Window and grabs the single out of the Cashier at Front Window’s hand, to avoid further confusion.)

Categories
Metablogs

A pledge

I’ve been so behind in updating anything on my site. So, I’m making a secret pledge to myself to work at least an hour a day on the damned thing. That doesn’t mean that there will be updates everyday, of course, ’cause a lot of it is behind the scenes.
I would make a pledge to update my blog more often, too, but most of those posts in that case would be like this one. And that would be terrifically boring.