Customer service is important, in balloon delivery.

Some retro cheese for you.

via milk & cookies

P…What?

I posted about this some time ago, PMOG is a game played as you go about your normal Internet biz-nass.  You install a Firefox add-on and away you go.  You earn 2 Data Points for every site you visit.  Earning Data Points levels you up, but the points also allow you to buy tools you can use on any site of your choosing.  You can leave a portal on a site that takes other players to another site.  You can leave a mine on a site that other players will trip and lose Data Points.  Unless, of course, they are wearing armor, than the mine only damages the armor.  You can also purchase a crate and put tools or points in it and leave the crate on a site.  Finally, you can put lightposts on sites.  Lightposts are used to make missions, a tour of sites of your choosing.  The missions have been a wealth of knowledge to me.  I have learned about new applications, sites and more.  That is why I started PMOG Link Monday posts.

If you have questions, check out the site, they have an intro video.  If you choose to play, they’ve also designated several players as stewards, folks who volunteer their time to help new players.  Seek out pixielo, lehall, chetyre, salmontickler or emberdione.  Of course, I am no steward, but I would be glad to help.  It is a really friendly community so you’d find loads of help and info.  In fact, there are loads of missions with gameplay info, like this one (of three), by bunni3burn.

Enough with the shout-outs, onto the links.

Volume 10

Yes!  I got this posted before Monday was over!

Inkscape

An open source vector art application suggested by salinat. As Adobe products get more & more bloated, I get frustrated. Granted, I haven’t made the move from Photoshop to GIMP, but I had no idea that there was an open source Illustrator program out there. Inkscape looks like it is just getting started, but GIMP started like 12 years ago and it has come very far.

Not Always Right

Oh, I found this one before and forgot all about it. Thanks to a mission by orangerineman, I found this site again. The blog reminded me that working 10 years in retail sucked. Basically, people post their experiences with “funny & stupid customers.” Add it to your morning coffee surf.

Not Hired

orangerineman also introduced me to a new site, not hired. You ever sit around with your friends and laugh about stupid people who post pictures of themselves humping liquor bottles on social network sites and then can’t figure out why they lost their jobs? This site is for you. They post moronic resumés, craigslist job posts, etc.

Homemade Sex Toys

Probably Not Safe For Work, but enjoy anyway. Someone dropped this one on me before, again I forgot about it until iree reminded me. The title says it all, I would just like to remind you to use CAUTION or else you might end up as a funny 911 transcript on the not always right link above.

I just want to pay for my stuff, nothing more, nothing less.  What is the deal with Circuit City?  They sell the latest, greatest high-tech gadgets and computers and their checkout system is archaic at best.  A three year old with an abacus could do figure out what I owe faster.  Seriously, my grandmother could walk a city block before they got done checking me out.   It’s like your trying to board a plane.  The cashier sits there punching away at the keyboard for eight minutes before they even scan your DVD.

Best Buy is always trying to pimp out magazine subscriptions to me when I buy something there, Circuit City should have magazines in the lanes so I have something to read while they are checking me out.

Everything is about sales, there is no more customer service.  Have you been stupid enough to open a new credit card lately?  Wow, I just want to activate my card and give you my money, but no, I have to answer 15 questions before I can buy stuff I can’t afford.  Do I want added security, transfer a balance, enroll in car insurance and get a deal on vinyl siding?  NO, I JUST WANT TO ACTIVATE MY CARD!  I don’t want your extended warranty, I don’t need batteries, I don’t want to save 10% by joining something, I don’t want a magazine subscription, I don’t want a service plan, I don’t even want  to have a nice day, just take my money and give me my shit.