Month: April 2012

The stereotype behind Lucida Calligraphy

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The other day, I got a PowerPoint file, that I was tasked to “clean up.”  Since I’m one of the few people left on the planet apparently, who knows how to correctly use PowerPoint, and its archaic method of style sheets and templates, I get this kind of request a lot.

Apparently, whomever had worked on this PowerPoint before it was turned over to me, also had no idea what they were doing.  Margins completely inconsistent and text boxes and objects shifting all over the place upon scrolling though the slides.  Colors, ever so slightly shifting between slides.  And most blatantly, the fact that slides that were title slides in between categories had all their titles written in Lucida Calligraphy.

My boss stated “I don’t know what kind of person did this, but it needs to be fixed.”

I had to hold my tongue at the answer that immediately popped into my head.

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I think I miss The Nabisco Thing

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I can’t say I eat a whole lot of Kraft foods.  It’s hard to tell, because apparently Kraft ultimately owns a shit ton of other companies, that I was mostly unaware that were owned by Kraft.  That being said, I read this story recently about how Kraft is rebranding their snack division, and will be soon be called Mondalez International.

The flaw with the statement is that Kraft Foods used the term “snack division.”  Sure, you could technically snack on anything be it an Oscar Meyer hot dog, a glass of Tang, to Kraft cheese single.  But in terms of the traditional snacks of chips, fruit snacks, cookies and crackers, Kraft already has a name for their snack division – Nabisco.

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Who did Daniel Bryan piss off?

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Seriously, 18 seconds?  Did management not see how over Daniel Bryan was with the crowd?  I lost my shit when I saw the entire front row of people with the YES! signs, and I had high hopes for an entertaining opening match.  But for the second year in a row, apparently Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan just isn’t meant to be a Wrestlemania match.  It was completely removed from the card last year, and this year it’s made the opening match, and ended in 18 seconds.  Kind of absurd, and it makes me wonder what Daniel Bryan did to get such an unceremonious job.

But whatever.  In spite of the Daniel Bryan jobbing, Wrestlemania was still an okay show.  Granted, it’s never been about the show as much as it’s always been about the gathering of friends, but when I think back to the show as a whole, it wasn’t the best, but it wasn’t terrible either.  As always, it’s more fun to analyze the crowd, pick out entertaining signs, and criticize the people in the front row than it is to watch the wrestling sometimes.

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I hate my gym

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I really don’t want to sound like a gym douche, but I think I have some justification for the gripes I have with my gym.  Gym douches gripe about inconsequential matters, like whining about the influx of new members after Thanksgiving, New Years, and prior to Spring Break.  And how they clog up all the machines and weight stations with their low-impact, laughable-to-them weight numbers.  About how they might not be doing something properly, or their choice of gym attire is too new and fashionable to look like a serious gym-goer.

No, I don’t have problems with any of that, because none of that is particularly surprising.  All of the above happens all the time, every year, like clockwork, so that stuff doesn’t really bother me that much, not to where I feel the need to gripe about it.  My gym gripes are mostly related to the fact that my gym is staffed, or rather in this case, not adequately staffed, and that the gym’s clientele is full of inconsiderate, rude, mostly meathead, assholes.

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