Sornie's Thoughts

Dear Old People.

edkohler:

suitep:

We don’t want to kill you. You’re our parents and grandparents and we love you. But if you throw a cranky fit and keep us from getting decent, affordable health care, you can figure out how to work your own goddamn PCs and cable boxes and remote controls from now on.

And it wouldn’t hurt if you’d stop being so bigoted and so freaked out about having a black president too. We understand this would have been impossible in your day, but that’s a long way from him being a Communist. Or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent. Or Hitler. It’s embarrassing, and this kind of stuff is why we don’t bring the grandkids around more. They miss you and we’d all like it if you were a bigger part of their lives, but we don’t want them to grow up thinking that way.

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On typography

A new experiment is in order. Because nobody gives a damn about design any more, I will only use shitty system fonts (from Windows) like Arial and Times.

On moving

Moving sucks. It makes you realize just how much crap you own and it really makes you consider simply pitching about half of it into the nearest dumpster.

Moving sucks even more when it’s not your own stuff. Especially when you realize, after dropping one of the boxes, that far too many of the boxes are filled with magazines. Issues of fucking Maxim. Lots of issues of Maxim.

Moving sucks even more whn you clear out two rooms stacked completely full of boxes in less than five hours.

Sometimes I Hate E-mail

derusha:

There was a time when people who were angry about a minor error in one of my TV reports, they didn’t have a lot of options.

• Complain to their spouse
• Pick up the phone and call the newsroom
• Write a letter

Today, with e-mail, viewers can send obnoxious notes without even thinking about it.  For example, this note:

Hi
Spelling is obviously no longer considered to be a part of good journalism.
Power Point bullet highlights can be useful, but I would recommend doing a spell check first or it only magnifies errors.
You had Suprise. Most 5th graders can spell this word correctly - s u r p r i s e
Good Luck with your career
Steve K****
Minneapolis

I responded in a nice way, taking responsibility.  I wish I could have responded like this.
Hi. (note the period I put after the word “Hi.”  It’s called a sentence.  Look into it.)

Courtesy is obviously no longer considered to be a part of good citizenship.

I don’t type the words on the screen, so I’m not sure you can associate one mispelled word with journalism.    Also, most people in TV can’t spell at a 5th grade level, so cut us some slak.

Good Luck with being a douche.
Jason D
WCCO

On maturity

It seems almost sad to me when a co-worker can’t accept the fact that someone else’s work was judged to be better and throws what could be considered an adult-sized hissy fit.

On chicken

Wait a minute. There’s a Popeye’s Chicken in Minnesota?

On retirement

401(k) company match contribution was just suspended. Will it ever come back or are we entering a new era of “fuck it, employees can deal with it on their own”?

On bathrooms

I’m thinking that last trip is gonna result in some stained porcelain.

On that damned bird

The Cardinal outside my office window has been literally thrashing its body against said window for an entire week. It’s not injured. I think it’s incapable of finding a mate for its stupid self so that rules out protecting an egg-filled nest. This Cardinal obviously has a death wish.

What do birds see circling around their heads after getting injured?

On odors

If you drop one off in the men’s room that smells like a digested but full ash tray, have the damn decency to spray the air freshener sitting on the vanity.