Petty Annoyances

I work for a casino here in Las Vegas. I've worked for several casinos. And I'm a veteran of numerous academic institutions. The com...

Well, obviously, you shouldn't do that. But surprisingly, cheeseburgers and fries is the #1 requested last meal on death rows nationwide...

This bugs me more than you might expect. "Yeah yeah," you're saying - "So elevators skip 13. So what? Who cares?" We...

121. A weak dribble coming out of the water fountain. 122. The gratuitous, pointless, just-cause-we-can cussing that permeates every HBO sho...

I've kept silent about this my whole life, but I think today is the day to blow the whistle on this bullshit. Why do people draw a lazy ...

Businesses shouldn't close. Stores, banks, restaurants, supermarkets, the utility companies, government offices, the whole caboodle. Alw...

Hoo boy, black licorice sucks. It's not just kinda-bad, it's not just mildly bad. It actually has a hostile taste. It's a flavor...

I think I'm going to do a trilogy of posts about food. Outdoor dining is one big problem, but another one is burgers. How do you serve o...

Sitting outdoors at a restaurant sucks. There are worse things, I grant you. It's not the gulag. But the indoor seating is just indisput...

I say it's time for this to stop. The argument is simple. In real life, you lose. When a kid plays with his peers, he will lose. The spo...

I have a class this semester on "Service Management", which is maybe one or two evolutionary steps higher than the kind of pablum ...

Saw my first Christmas commercial last night, October 11th. This may be a new record. It was for Carnival Cruises. Let's all do a good d...

Requesting an End to the Conversation Here's a longstanding pet peeve I have. It's when you tell the person on the other end of the ...

Hmm.. it seems I'm a little late on this one. I was ready to rip the International Star Registry a new one and call them all kinds of na...

This is about Duke Nukem. If you don't care (and really, who does?) then skip. DNF is a videogame that's been in production, full ti...