12.16.2004

Two of my favorite sayings...

...that I hope I never forget.

"The more you know, the less you need." -- An Aboriginal proverb

"Man muβ etwas Neues machen, um etwas Neues zu sehen."
"To see something new, you have to do something new." -- Lichtenberg

Sip Stealing

I am trying to make a conscious effort not to make this blog dedicated to annoyances, but here's another: Restaurants that don't honor the all American tradition of refills. Outside of America, the "all you can drink" tradition does not always apply and that's fine by me.
When in Rome...blah blah blah.

However, in America, there are and should always be a couple of beverages you can count on to fall under the "free refills" category at any and all respectable dining establishments: tea, coffee, water (tap), and carbonated beverages.

I'm thinking I should create a website where users can log onto and report establishments by city and state that charge extra for refills. I believe I once heard that refills for fountain drinks cost a restaurant $0.01 per refill on average, certainly a crime worth reporting.

"No refills" only keeps the sip stealing crime rate on the rise.

12.14.2004

First of Hopefully Many

So here's my first blog entry in hopefully a series of many. Although, I'm not expecting to be able to post copious amounts of entries, since when I actually do have freetime, I'm very likely not to want to spend it in front of a computer - take a guess at what I do for a living :)

However, my recent desire to record all the random things that fly through my head while I'm staring at a computer and my desire to finally start a journal of sorts will hopefully continue strong and provide at least some decent laughing material later on in life.

As for what you can expect to read on my blog, expect the occasional rant on things technological, daily annoyances, jokes, and hopefully the occasional description of long, relaxing vacations to exotic locales.

For now, here's my first annoyance. Category: Office bathroom rules.

If you enter the men's office bathroom, notice none of the wall urinals are occupied, and still opt to do your business in one of the stalls (whilst standing up, naturally), something is wrong with you. Maybe I work with logic too much and the world just seems simple to me, but if you need to stand up to drain ye ole lizard, there is, you guessed it, a "stand-up" urinal just for your purposes. Very logical in design, like diesel gas nozzles that keep idiots from pumping the wrong fuel into their gas tanks - try it, then try sitting on the aforementioned wall urinals, and you'll see what I'm talking about.