Things you don’t want the food delivery man to joke about

It’s rainy and cold. I have work to do and my personal chef has the night off. I decide to order Chinese. The delivery man shows up and stands in the open doorway.

Delivery man: 19.55$ please.
Me: Please come in. I have a cat and I don’t want him to get out in the rain.
Delivery man: You have a cat, hey? If he’s real fat, I’ll give you 5 bucks for him.
Me: …

Fru

Une de mes frustrations quotidiennes d’utilisatrice du Web, c’est quand je lis un article ou un billet int�ressant et que je d�cide de cliquer sur un hyperlien sans penser � v�rifier auparavant la destination du lien en question. Tout s’arr�te pendant un instant et je me rends compte que le maudit lien m�ne vers un article en format PDF et que �a va prendre cinq looooongues minutes avant que mon ordinateur oooooouvre le document et me laisse naviguer de nouveau. Pas moyen de changer d’id�e et d’arr�ter le processus. Je dois attendre qu’Adoooooobe Reader d�marre, trouve l’article et l’affiche � l’�cran, m�me si rendue l�, je suis trop en maudit pour avoir le go�t de le lire.

Y’a quelqu’un qui pourrait dire � Adobe que Reader, c’est lent en torpinouche?

(Pour une fois que c’est moi pis pas mon chum qui chiale sur un blogue…)

How can someone so special on the Internet be such a drag in real life?

« Inwardly we are so much richer and better, we are capable of so much more; we are princesses abandoned at birth; we are supermen concealing our powers behind mild-mannered anonymity. It might be said that what some people project onto the Internet is not only a heightened, idealized self but in fact a kind of divine self. I do not think anyone ever lives up to such ideals; most people never even reveal them. It is in fact a tribute to the Internet that it allows so many people to reveal so much. »

From Since you asked, by Cary Tennis in Salon.