| It's interesting to take an overview of Livejournal friends-pages, sometimes, when they have a wide variety of people appearing. It's the juxtapositions; one instant you're reading about horrific medical problems or close family deaths, the next you're reading "wah, I might have a bit of a cold". One minute it's "people are so shallow and self-involved", the next it's personality quizzes. It's not even as though they are consistently the same people with the same topics - people talking about everyone else being self-involved will happily complain, the next day, about being a bit tired. Unlike most people who make posts of this nature, I don't think this is a bad thing - if the worst thing in your life is that you're a bit tired, you shouldn't refrain from grumbling just because someone else that you don't even know has a severe case of explodey head. Personality quizzes are a nice counterpoint to death - I wouldn't want to read any of it, if it were all doom and gloom. The disparity is what makes it compelling. [11:23] [9 comments]
| I received spam 'from' postmaster at allegiancetelecom, today. This is amusing because Allegiance Telecom are the company my wife recently quit from, after they had been regularly demanding that she work 80-hour weeks without being paid overtime or receiving any sort of bonuses (nor a raise when they 'promoted' her into a position with more work). Still doesn't seem amusing? Ah, but the amusing thing is that the spam is not really from them; they will be receiving thousands of mail-bounces and "take me off your list" messages for no good reason. Couldn't wish it on a nicer company. It's just a shame that the people who have to deal with it aren't the managers or HR people. [10:58] [0 comments]
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