Lots of Monkeys

Looks like the World of WarCraft will be celebrating Lunar New Year. I expect whining about Blizzard catering to “Chinese Gold Farmers” to commence on the forums in exactly negative two days.

I find it interesting that this holiday happens to come after the news that racism has come to Azeroth. Some misguided players believe that all non english speakers are Chinese gold farmers. They have resorted to a “screening” process that involves proving that English is your native tongue. This proof is demonstrated by typing one or two sentences with correct grammar and spelling.

Of course, this process is entirely dependent on whether or not the screeners know that a semicolon is not a part of your lower intestine.

Having played World of WarCraft, I predict that this practice will lead to a dramatic decrease in the number of groups, and perhaps eliminate groups entirely.

So, perpendicular storage for hard drives. Hitachi’s got the “Schoolhouse Rock” explanation for you. Regardless of the medium, the message, “more storage capacity on hard disk drives,” is good news.

Clerks 2 is coming. I’m looking forward to it. I was once a register monkey, so it’s fun to see people on the big screen doing things that you’ve seen in the real world.

This movie is of course, hyperbole. The real world is not. What is frightening is that I’ve actually experienced some of those things when I was working retail. The problem with the job is that it brings you in contact with an inordinate number of people.

People who work retail do one of two things when they realize this fact. They either quit, or lose faith in humanity.

I started the job with “antifaith” in humanity. That is, faith in people to do the wrong thing in any given situation.

I only worked on weekends and I saw plenty of that.

People (I hesitate to call them, “parents”) leaving children in the store unattended. Kids shoplifting. Grown men crying over Microsoft Train Simulator. Parents buying seven year old children “M” rated games.

The usual.

So, having quit that job years ago, it brings me great pleasure to watch fictional characters living retail. This trailer looks like they’ve moved on to food service.

I worked food service for approximately two hours and quit.

Not enough money in the world.

After having consumed it, I firmly believe that this beer is qualified for the title of, “Tasty beverage.” In fact, after having had just one bottle, I may upgrade its classification to the “Delicious” class of beverages. This is a fantastic nursing beer, as it’s 10.5% alcohol by volume and distinctive flavor demand that it be consumed slowly.

Franz Ferdinand is right.

It’s always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That’s why we only work when we need the money

Of course, out of context, but isn’t that the best way to quote people?