Grab Bag Friday (and Pet Peeve Thursday): Double Your Pleasure
(1 Cent): Cutters!
You know what really chaps my cheeks? No, not people who cut themselves ... people who cut in front of you in line!
Wasn't this phase of your life supposed to be over in about 6th grade? "Adults" have been guilty of this transgression against me at least a half dozen times. The most recent came at the post office ... where I took the labeled route for the front of the line (some signs that have arrows that says the line starts here) ... then these two dudes go straight to a P.O. worker with a boxes full of letters. I was about to get all gangsta on them (i.e., give them a paper-cut in their eye with a manila folder) but then the very nice P.O. worker said that she thought I was first ... in other words, I was in line, foolios!
This sort of thing happens a lot, though. Usually, when people are in a hurry, they think they're top priority and that no one else's schedule is important ... or they're just complete a-holes and don't care. As George Costanza once said, we're living in a society!
Methinks these people are the same jerks that cut you off while driving, too.
(2 Cent): Brain-Fart Times Three
Thanks to those who wrote in. If this is the first time reading, this section compiles comments or questions from actual readers with my response. Let's get to it:
Q: "Here's something that really ticks me off; I can't believe this guy is for real. I hope no one is dumb enough to fall for this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250067095413 I want to ask the seller if he would consider a trade: the googleyoutube.com domain name for some nice Monopoly real-estate on the soon to be Nevada/Pacific coastline that I just drew up with my cool new Crayola Crayon set. That's a fair trade right?" -- Crash N. Burnett
HCP: Wow ... I don't know if that Ebay link still works, so I'll explain it. Some dude wants to sell the URL of: googleyoutube.com for a cool $1 million. I mean, wow. The best part (for me) was that there actually was a bid! I wanted to see from who and how much, but I had to log-in for it ... and then I did and it still didn't let me see it.
Yeah, perhaps I should create and sell a domain name ... how about "eatme.com" for some up and coming fast food restaurant?
Q: "I have a question about fantasy basketball for you. My team’s name is… well I’ll change it so no one knows… let’s say it is Scorts Poctors. Now in my league I am 7-3 and in second place in my division. The leader in my division is Pipans of Scoop, If say for some reason I set up an illegal roster with 5 guards, 3 forwards, and 2 centers. What would you call me? And would the team I am playing say RusRiders VI take advantage of me and score out the house with their highest score yet? Note: Team names have been changed." -- Anonymous
HCP: Ha ... this is a great question. Partly because I know who wrote it but mostly because this is about my fantasy basketball league. Well, Anonymous (can I call you Nony?) ... if you did what you described, I would call you either, a) a fool, 2) a moron, or third) a gift from heaven. Hey, Nony, a win's a win. I'll take it (and take it I did!). Note: he would've lost anyways.
Q: "Yeah that money transfer is a well documented e-mail scam. There have been literally millions of dollars lost on that one. What happens is that someone needs to transfer money (usually from some sort of oil company) into the U.S. but doesn't have a U.S. account so they need someone else's account to "help them out". What happens is that there actually ARE people stupid enough to give the person their account info and somehow the account suddenly gets sucked dry and the contact phone number is suddenly disconnected. I wonder how that happened?" -- Crash N. Burnett
HCP: Note: this comment is about last week's Grab Bag .... For the past two weeks I've had a couple more e-mails that are very similar to this scam. So, what the heck? First I get e-mails from Israel and now I'm getting money laundering e-mails? What the pooh did I sign up for? Who the frick is reading these columns? Show yourselves!
(1/2 Cent): I'll Do It Later
Is procrastination a product of laziness? I've thought about this a couple of times, especially while in school ... I can't come to a solid conclusion.
Do we procrastinate because we don't want to do something? Do we put things off until the last minute because that's when we "do our best work?" Is it a habit? Is this a case by case thing?
I'd like to think that I procrastinate because I have a history of getting things done at the last minute ... and reasonably well, at that. I suppose deep down, I think to myself, "Why spread this task out for a couple of weeks, work on it little by little, when I can do it all in a couple of days?" Then that brings up the question: is that classified as procrastination or planning? I mean, I'm planning on getting it done at the last minute, so is that really putting something off?
I will list a couple of definitions of "procrastination" that can be found off of Dictionary.com:
–verb (used without object)
1. to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
–verb (used with object)
2. to put off till another day or time; defer; delay.
v. intr.
To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
v. tr.
To postpone or delay needlessly.
In trying to incorporate all of the definitions ... for #1, I do defer an action, but not to the point of a lost opportunity. #2 seems most likely, in that I do put something off to another time. #3 is intriguing, in that I do put things off habitually, but I wouldn't classify it as carelessness because I plan for it ... and I'm still debating whether or not it is laziness. #4 doesn't really work for me because it is not needlessly, as I explained earlier (why spread out a task when you can do it all at once).
I suppose, for me, I require the "pressure" of needing to get something done (a deadline). For research papers, I like to just sit down all at once and just write, write, write. If the paper is not due for another month or two, my thinking is, "Why do it now? I can't turn it in right now ... I could be doing something else more pertinent or immediately due." I don't know if there is a correlation to my love of playing sports, in that I love to be in the situation of a game winning three pointer or down by 3 runs with bases loaded in the 9th. I love the adrenaline; I love all eyes on me; I love being in a position where something needs to happen now.
So, to make myself feel better, I will say that a procrastinator is not someone who is lazy ... just someone who plans to do something at the last minute. Feel free to write in if you differ ... you can do it now, or later.
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Thanks for the reading and comments to all those who do. Feel free to click the Comments link below and share your two and a half cents with me and our readers. Have a great Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend. Be safe ... be sound ... be sassy!
HCP
You know what really chaps my cheeks? No, not people who cut themselves ... people who cut in front of you in line!
Wasn't this phase of your life supposed to be over in about 6th grade? "Adults" have been guilty of this transgression against me at least a half dozen times. The most recent came at the post office ... where I took the labeled route for the front of the line (some signs that have arrows that says the line starts here) ... then these two dudes go straight to a P.O. worker with a boxes full of letters. I was about to get all gangsta on them (i.e., give them a paper-cut in their eye with a manila folder) but then the very nice P.O. worker said that she thought I was first ... in other words, I was in line, foolios!
This sort of thing happens a lot, though. Usually, when people are in a hurry, they think they're top priority and that no one else's schedule is important ... or they're just complete a-holes and don't care. As George Costanza once said, we're living in a society!
Methinks these people are the same jerks that cut you off while driving, too.
(2 Cent): Brain-Fart Times Three
Thanks to those who wrote in. If this is the first time reading, this section compiles comments or questions from actual readers with my response. Let's get to it:
Q: "Here's something that really ticks me off; I can't believe this guy is for real. I hope no one is dumb enough to fall for this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250067095413 I want to ask the seller if he would consider a trade: the googleyoutube.com domain name for some nice Monopoly real-estate on the soon to be Nevada/Pacific coastline that I just drew up with my cool new Crayola Crayon set. That's a fair trade right?" -- Crash N. Burnett
HCP: Wow ... I don't know if that Ebay link still works, so I'll explain it. Some dude wants to sell the URL of: googleyoutube.com for a cool $1 million. I mean, wow. The best part (for me) was that there actually was a bid! I wanted to see from who and how much, but I had to log-in for it ... and then I did and it still didn't let me see it.
Yeah, perhaps I should create and sell a domain name ... how about "eatme.com" for some up and coming fast food restaurant?
Q: "I have a question about fantasy basketball for you. My team’s name is… well I’ll change it so no one knows… let’s say it is Scorts Poctors. Now in my league I am 7-3 and in second place in my division. The leader in my division is Pipans of Scoop, If say for some reason I set up an illegal roster with 5 guards, 3 forwards, and 2 centers. What would you call me? And would the team I am playing say RusRiders VI take advantage of me and score out the house with their highest score yet? Note: Team names have been changed." -- Anonymous
HCP: Ha ... this is a great question. Partly because I know who wrote it but mostly because this is about my fantasy basketball league. Well, Anonymous (can I call you Nony?) ... if you did what you described, I would call you either, a) a fool, 2) a moron, or third) a gift from heaven. Hey, Nony, a win's a win. I'll take it (and take it I did!). Note: he would've lost anyways.
Q: "Yeah that money transfer is a well documented e-mail scam. There have been literally millions of dollars lost on that one. What happens is that someone needs to transfer money (usually from some sort of oil company) into the U.S. but doesn't have a U.S. account so they need someone else's account to "help them out". What happens is that there actually ARE people stupid enough to give the person their account info and somehow the account suddenly gets sucked dry and the contact phone number is suddenly disconnected. I wonder how that happened?" -- Crash N. Burnett
HCP: Note: this comment is about last week's Grab Bag .... For the past two weeks I've had a couple more e-mails that are very similar to this scam. So, what the heck? First I get e-mails from Israel and now I'm getting money laundering e-mails? What the pooh did I sign up for? Who the frick is reading these columns? Show yourselves!
(1/2 Cent): I'll Do It Later
Is procrastination a product of laziness? I've thought about this a couple of times, especially while in school ... I can't come to a solid conclusion.
Do we procrastinate because we don't want to do something? Do we put things off until the last minute because that's when we "do our best work?" Is it a habit? Is this a case by case thing?
I'd like to think that I procrastinate because I have a history of getting things done at the last minute ... and reasonably well, at that. I suppose deep down, I think to myself, "Why spread this task out for a couple of weeks, work on it little by little, when I can do it all in a couple of days?" Then that brings up the question: is that classified as procrastination or planning? I mean, I'm planning on getting it done at the last minute, so is that really putting something off?
I will list a couple of definitions of "procrastination" that can be found off of Dictionary.com:
–verb (used without object)
1. to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
–verb (used with object)
2. to put off till another day or time; defer; delay.
v. intr.
To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
v. tr.
To postpone or delay needlessly.
In trying to incorporate all of the definitions ... for #1, I do defer an action, but not to the point of a lost opportunity. #2 seems most likely, in that I do put something off to another time. #3 is intriguing, in that I do put things off habitually, but I wouldn't classify it as carelessness because I plan for it ... and I'm still debating whether or not it is laziness. #4 doesn't really work for me because it is not needlessly, as I explained earlier (why spread out a task when you can do it all at once).
I suppose, for me, I require the "pressure" of needing to get something done (a deadline). For research papers, I like to just sit down all at once and just write, write, write. If the paper is not due for another month or two, my thinking is, "Why do it now? I can't turn it in right now ... I could be doing something else more pertinent or immediately due." I don't know if there is a correlation to my love of playing sports, in that I love to be in the situation of a game winning three pointer or down by 3 runs with bases loaded in the 9th. I love the adrenaline; I love all eyes on me; I love being in a position where something needs to happen now.
So, to make myself feel better, I will say that a procrastinator is not someone who is lazy ... just someone who plans to do something at the last minute. Feel free to write in if you differ ... you can do it now, or later.
--------
Thanks for the reading and comments to all those who do. Feel free to click the Comments link below and share your two and a half cents with me and our readers. Have a great Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend. Be safe ... be sound ... be sassy!
HCP
posted by HCP @ 11:34 AM
1 Comments:
At 8:15 AM,
Anonymous said…
This is from Nony.
A win is a win is a win, I agree. My question is, why not me? Why do I play teams that score low for three weeks in a row and then on my turn they have the games of their lives? I want to mention that I did give the team I was playing a sufficient pounding this week and that I would have beaten 7 of the teams in the league that I am playing in. But what is it about sucky or average teams or players doing amazing against me or my team. For instance my favorite NBA team often produces career games for the sixth man on the other team’s bench; sometimes the twelfth man even gets his piece of the say "pecan" pie. Why is this? My favorite team is really good but what is it about my team (not that I own them) that brings out the best in the worst of other teams?
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