New stuff at CP.

I finally got ’round to adding a few things over at CP. I kinda meant to add them before, but…it’s more work than I actually like doing, sometimes.

It’s another series of round-things — pins, magnets, those stickers that apparently only come in a multi-pack. A whole ‘ask me about’ theme, some serious, most not-so-serious.

I should probably just include a partial list, or something.
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Y’know what I like?

I like it when customer service happens at me — especially when it happens at me in unexpected levels of goodness.

Yeah, I know. You’re probably all familiar with my history of experiences with customer service, and how bad it usually is, so any good customer service could be considered to be ‘unexpected’. But I do know the difference between ‘appropriate levels of customer service’ and ‘above and beyond’.

I just had one of those experiences that, while maybe not ‘above and beyond’, is at least living across the street from it.
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Last night’s Bullshit.

Penn&Teller did an excellent job last night. For only having half an hour in which to present both sides of the argument, there wasn’t really much missing…although I think I would’ve left out FatGunLovingFireTriangleGuy, in favour of…anything else. He really offered nothing more than ‘look at this kook. This is the other side. What a fucking kook.’

Bringing up the older school massacres was good, and…Jack Thompson was oddly useless. And, yeah, eerily emotionless. The man has problems.
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