Coffee room etiquette

Improper etiquette in the coffee room just pisses me off. Here's a top 10 list of my worst peeves.

10) Overfilling the pot. The pot doesn't over-fill itself. Someone actually needs to try to do that. I've seen many an occasion where people brew a new pot without emptying the one before. This leads overflowing and coffee everywhere. Oh yeah, and some people don't even take out the old, used filter/coffee and put in a new packet. That's just gross, but at least they're brewing more coffee.

9) Taking more than an adequate share of hot water/coffee. Some people have retardedly big mugs. Have mercy, please.

8) Bitching about the coffee someone else made while not making any yourself. These coffee snobs walk in as if they own the place, fill their mugs, taste the coffee and proceed to make comments on how bad the stuff is, and walk back out. If the coffee is so bad, leave it for other people who will drink it.

7) Not shaking the creamer. I think this has to be a personal peeve. There was an occasion when I was pouring the coffeemate creamer into my coffee and it wasn't cooperating. I turned it almost upside down, and what looked like a white slug fell into my mug. We now refer to that as "sluggies".

6) Not closing the creamer cap. Some people semi-close the cap. The result is that when you shake it, you get creamer all over you. Why have a cap if you're not gonna use it?

5) Finishing the coffee and not bothering to make more. Common sense, really.

4) Complaining about anything and everything in the coffee room. I'm not naming names. Really. But the coffee room is a place where lots of people gather to hang out for a bit and chat. I can understand about how they're not restocking the sugar or how the water's sometimes not hot, but I don't wanna hear that every day.

3) People running into the coffee room right after a pot has been set to brew, saying "ohhh man..." because they couldn't get their tea, when the people making coffee had been waiting patiently for the water to get hot to do so.

2) Taking the hot water while the coffee is brewing. There are about 15 people who are gonna drink from that pot of coffee. 1 person is gonna touch your tea. Wait your damn turn.

1) While there are people clearly waiting for the coffee to finish brewing, people walking in and taking the
stronger coffee before the batch is even done dripping. Those people took the time to make coffee, and are waiting there for it to finish, and someone decides they're gonna take the good stuff?

I'm sure I've missed some stuff. Care to share your pet peeves?

The Dark Knight (Take 1)

I went and saw the midnight showing of The Dark Knight last night. For all of you still on the fence about seeing it, or you're not planning on seeing it: go watch it. Now.

The movie was everything I expected of it, and the acting was superb. To the credit of the casting crew, they picked actors/actresses who actually act, and who are not merely big names in the field. I don't care how famous Bruce Willis and Nicolas Cage get. I can ALWAYS think of a better person to cast than them. I know there will be the naysayers, as Maggie Gyllenhaal isn't the hottest actress you can find. But more believable than Katie Holmes? That goes without saying. Maybe even more fitting than the original Batman love interest: Kim Basinger. Also, I have to say that after Aaron Eckhart's performance in "Thank You for Smoking", I already gave him a lot of credit. It was no different here, although a lot less tongue-in-cheek, pun intended.

I know I'm gonna get a lot of flack for this, but I fell asleep during the movie. There was hardly a dull moment in the 2 and a half hours, but I was just too dead tired.




Still... even with all that talk about the good casting, I can't help but wonder. Wouldn't it be awesome if Kate Beckinsale was the heroine instead? Batman and leather-clad vampires...together at last! And if she bit Bruce Wayne, then we'd have VAMPIRE BATMAN. YEAAAUUGHH!! I'm such a genius that they should just let me write the script for the next movie.

Teh car

I've been putting it off for a while, and I guess I should post it for all of you who haven't seen it. And for those of you who have, well, you get to see it in all it's freshly waxed glory. I present you... my car.




These were taken after my "friends" showed me how to wax my car. Afterwards we had dinner at this hole in the wall place called "top cafe". 5 dollar shrink and pork wonton noodle soup. Mmmmmm. That is also where we ran into the BIGGEST asian dude I've ever seen. He's even a little bigger than me. But seriously. After he left and walked across the plaza from the restaurant, I saw him, and that's when he looked about normal size.

We were all leaving the place and AJ just had to say it: "see you guys in 12 hours." foooock...

Oh ZAP!

AJ spoke of this elusive feat in scrabble once: placing a high point letter on a triple letter spot, to be used both horizontally and vertically. Here it is:






My work here is done.

I give up

At work my machine runs linux, but we have this software that lets us run virtual windows. This is to say that windows is emulated. That leaves me with 2 options in terms of browsers I can use: firefox and IE. There is netscape on my machine, but it's outdated, and on top of that, it doesn't support flash and a bunch of other plugins.

My typical choice is firefox, of course. The problem with this is that the build of firefox on my machine is old. It randomly just crashes and takes all the pages open with it. The new build fixes this, but I don't have the privileges to install it. On top of that, I have to enter my username and password whenever the page I want to go to has an ad with some strange code. It also spontaneously asks me to re-login all the damn time.

Sometimes I get so fed up with firefox that I switch to IE. Let me start off by saying that we don't have the latest IE either. So no tabbed browsing. On top of that, although not as spontaneously, IE will crash and suck up all my ram if enough windows have been opened using it. This was proven to me yesterday.

This leaves me with no good options....except maybe to work...

Seriously?

So I got a text from Denny in the middle of the day.

"Hancock tonight?"

It took me a second to figure out what he was talking about, during which I was like...wtf Denny... I mean...if you were to read that on a text, what would be the first thing to cross your mind?

Moving along. Denny later calls and proceeds to try to convince me to see it. "Duuuude, it's totally gonna be the biggest movie of the summer." Really? The Dark Knight. Need I say more? Now all I need is for Denny to put his money where his mouth is.