I don’t know…

I don’t know exactly what happened at work this morning, but apparently there was an essay on our sites that had profanity in it, or something like that, and a client complained, or, well, something like that, and the result was that Vincent, our QA guy, sent out an email asking if someone could provide him with a list of profanity words. Vincent is Chinese, and English isn’t his first language. After a volley of emails, he then sent this one, in explanation: Just to clarify why I needed… One…

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er. well.

Er. Well. That was easy. I just called my 401k people to see if I could get a loan against my 401k for a down payment for a house. It took about seven minutes and I didn’t speak a word. The whole thing is entirely automated. I asked for a loan, I told it why, I told it how much, I told it how many months I wanted to pay it back over, it told me how much my bi-weekly repayment plan would be, then said it’d send a promissory…

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