minorthird

so…I’ve started to notice a disturbing trend — well, disturbing to me, Erika thinks nothing of it — in car advertising recently: the use of “em-pee-gee” instead of “miles per gallon.”
sure, they’ve been writing “mpg” forever, but is it really necessary to break it down to a dot-com/we’re-living-in-a-tech-society-and-this-sounds-hip acronym?
“What are you looking for in […]

so…everyday, on my way to work, I pass a construction management company named “Truant.”
Don’t you think that someone would have pointed out that calling your company “shirks responsibility” might not be the best for a project management firm?

so…in light of the recent heat wave in Boston, Mayor Mumbles Menino has asked area businesses to conserve energy, even going so far as to raise the thermostats by at least 2 degrees.
well…it seems like my building is taking the request to heart: the AC isn’t even on! True it’s early, but there are people […]

so…there is this guy at work — he’s related to that guy at your job — who feels that it is in his job description and overall mission for the betterment of society to turn on every light switch in the office! Even for lights that are on the other side of the floor.
I’m sure […]