FlasshePoint

Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber

Vespa My Love (Not)

Pet Peeve of the Day: Scooters. The high price of gas is evidently bringing them out in droves. Suddenly these two-wheeled motorized motorcycle-lite vehicle menaces are everywhere. There’s even one taking up a space everyday in the parking garage at work. I guess everyone was just waiting for the warm weather [...]

Carded

Pet Peeve of the Day: The credit card company for the major credit card that I use for most of my transactions just, out-of-the-blue, sent me a new card with a new number yesterday and didn’t tell me they were going to do it. The old card doesn’t expire for another year. Of [...]

MyBrick

Pet Peeve of the Day: One of my external hard drives died this week. It was a 250GB Western Digital MyBook (USB & Firewire). Now it’s a brick. An out-of-warranty brick. The thing has always given me trouble, so I’m not exactly sorry to see it go. It’s always run [...]

Unplugging Toasters

I know I’m trampling on one of my own sacred crows (yes, I worship crows and not cows) here, but I gotta say I’ve been disappointed with Battlestar Galactica so far this season. [Warning: Some spoilers ahead for those of you who aren't caught up or who watch by DVD-only.] Five episodes in, [...]

Suckling At The Green Teat

Pet Peeve of the Day: The shortage of 5-oz bottles of Tabasco Green Pepper Sauce in our local food stores. For some reason, most of the grocery stores around here (both Safeway and King Soopers) only carry the 2-oz bottles lately. I’m addicted to this (relatively) mild jalapeno pepper sauce and put it [...]

I’m Bugged

Pet Peeve of the Day: The CW Network has taken to doing large bugs at the bottom of the screen to promote future shows. On non-widescreen standard def showings, I assume the bug is in the bottom right corner, like normal bugs. Although it’s bigger and more obnoxious than normal bugs. But [...]

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