Tag Archives: Rant

Does Our Whininess Have No End?

Whole Foods is imple­ment­ing a plan to give a big­ger employee dis­count to employ­ees that don’t smoke, have lower blood pres­sure and have a BMI under 30. Nat­u­rally, peo­ple are whin­ing about dis­crim­i­na­tion. This includes one quote that I can’t pos­si­bly do jus­tice to other than to repro­duce it in full: “Why are you reward­ing peo­ple …

February 7, 2010 – 3:21 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

You Really Want The Leftmost Button or Possibly No Button At All

Have you ever watched some­one repeat­edly do some­thing over and over again even though it didn’t do what he thought it did? Like in The Princess Bride when Vizzini kept say­ing things were incon­ceiv­able even though those very things had already in fact hap­pened and thus, could not by any def­i­n­i­tion of the word be …

June 4, 2008 – 5:32 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Technology | Tagged | Comments (0)