brainstem spurs,disseminating …

Thanks for that story on Google daycare, that was incredible.

PS — I’ve been trying to post this several times today, the site would not accept “1″ as the answer to 0+1. I notice burbed has removed that requirement.

That volvo post sure made a big impression… but NONE Of you laughed at or even noticed the Vista one. I’m still PO’ed about that, especially since it was too burbed-specific to repeat to anyone in real life.

I didn’t think Lionel was being obnoxious… or at least, not more obnoxious than we routinely are to each other.

I don’t know if you just need more fiber in your diet, or whether working in SV makes people loopy, but lighten up, guys. Jeez.

It’s the long work hours. Makes us testy.

As long as I’m far, far, off topic, did you guys see the NYT article about Google daycare?

Long story short, they cancelled their cheap decent onsite daycare provider, and set up something super-expensive, that was subsidized VERRRRRY heavily, then decided to stop subsidizing. Onsite infant daycare rates for their employees have risen to the $2500/mo range. People apparently wept in public when it was announced.

Alright, I admit it, Realestater makes me laugh me regularly.

So maybe the problem is really that what you think is funny comes across as rude. Printed humor is much more difficult than spoken; lots of nuance is lost without tone, expression, modulation, spacing, all those things you can do when you’re telling a story instead of writing one. Keep trying, I love a good zinger. But good is more important than zinger.

DreamT Says:
July 4th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
rick – Nicely put. Lionel demonstrated how to antagonize every single poster in just one sentence. I’m sure that to achieve that level of efficiency, it took him lots of practice.”

What I find amazing about this board is that there is so little sense of humor relative to the charm, sarcasm and humor burbed create in his/her posts. I made fun of San Jose a few months back (noting that people NEVER vacation there) and was met with a flurry of bizarrely angry posts. I don’t know if you just need more fiber in your diet, or whether working in SV makes people loopy, but lighten up, guys. Jeez.

PS – I didn’t antagonize every poster. I was very complimentary to Jim D.