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Gutter-balls are bad

I think everyone can agree that in bowling a gutter-ball is a bad thing.

Yesterday as I celebrated several gutter-balls at the alley with my coworkers, I wondered how a rut and a groove can have such drastically different connotations.

I am sure you have heard the expression, 
"After he graduated school, he got into a rut. Then later that year, he got into a groove."

Was Louie up, then down; or down then up?

Here is a roll of tape.

Are the arrows indicating the direction of the tape, or the direction of the pull tab?

Affect leads to an Effect

This one is always tricky to remember.

My memory hook is to think of the alphabet. A comes before E.

Affect is an Action.
Effect is a rEsult.

Gold inside an egg (carton)

"This is the Day which the Lord has made: Let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalms 118.24

Snow-tober

Good morning Oct 30, 2012

That, which

Recently I realized a rule of thumb to rely on in regard to using "that" or "which."

My pod mate (new age cubicles), Marshall, said:
The phrase following "that" effectively becomes an adjective and is necessary information to define the object.
The phrase following "which" is information not necessary to the object
It also should be preceded by a comma.

So...
The wicked witch lives in a castle that is haunted.
The wicked witch lives in a castle, which is in the east.

Office job with a view

Saw these guys on my way in to work today. I wonder if they zip line at the end of the shift.

G.E.I.Co

I just learned that GEICO is an acronym for Government Employees Insurance Company.

Despite the presence of the word "government" in its name, GEICO has always been a private corporation not affiliated with any government organization. (Via Wikipedia)

Ask for a car wash

My sister just got a new car and she negotiated free car wash service for life.

The tesla roadster base package is $109,000. Apparently no car wash service included.

Walk and chew bubble gum?

On a call I tried to load a webpage in Safari and received this message:

I could gripe about the technology, but then AT&T would rub my nose in it even more. So instead I will call out the use of quotations. 

I appreciate that a reason was provided, yet the use of quotations makes me think the tone is sarcasm as if it were coming from "AT&T. ".   [sic]

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No Community for you

Well, which device is it available on?

Please Don't Go, Stick Around for 0 More Emails

Typically I delete the spam and junk mail that I receive. Ever so often I spend time finding the 'unsubscribe' link buried at the bottom of the email and try to prevent unwanted emails from ever coming. 

Today the unsub link brought be here: 

Although it seemed a little bit like they were begging for mercy, I was impressed by the second option 'I'll try [ ] more Emails'

The field was defaulted to zero though, which I found odd. At least change it to 1.
I was very curious to see if those last few emails would have included anything extra as to allure me into unsubscribing or if perhaps there would be a confirmation or warning email that our last agreement was about to end. 

What do you think?

Put it in reverse

In like a lamb...

Leap day spiked at 70f

And then crocus' pop up.

An elevated point of view

29th floor of nationwide plaza 1

A.S.I.C.S.