I had to do an online defensive driving course last night because of the *#&%*%&%&@!*!@ speeding ticket I got. It was unbearable. Not only did I not learn anything I didn't already know, but the set up of the course was in Flash and you couldn't go on to the next page/question/scenario until the "next" button lit up. It took 3 to 5 times as long to light up as it took me to read an absorb each page. Seriously, I'm a fast reader and I probably lost an hour of my life to waiting for each section to be ready for me to go to the next page. There's sample of the course here. Please go share my pain. Anyway I got 96%, missed only one question and really that was debatable (I chose that a driver should do whatever possible to avoid an accident, the correct answer was that a driver should do whatever is reasonable to avoid an accident, WTF).
My intern at work was asked to decorate for the holidays. She put up lights and some beautiful, brightly colored, elaborately folder tissue paper flowers her sister mad and little display in the main office with some garlands, candles and Nativity figures. She finished it all up and turned to me and said, "Just in case that was all too Christian, I've added Ganesh to the Nativity scene." (My intern is Hindu, and thus it's unclear to me why she was asked to decorate in the first place, but oh how I love her and her sense of humour.)
December 14, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Heh.