Business that treat people badly. Everyone can think of one place that they are upset about. We called one place in Rochester this week to check on dresses for the wedding. The sales people were so rude! They said that we couldnt buy bridesmaid dresses there if we didnt buy the wedding gown. What kind of shop is that? What company in their right mind turns away profits? I mean I could understand if you were say a contractor, you can only build so many houses at a time. But for a place that sells clothes, you'd think that selling more clothes would increase profits, and therefor make you more money. I guess its my different view of money, I work so that I can enjoy life more, so that I can inch closer to retirement, and then not have to worry about money. Does this place work for different reasons? I dont need more money, I just want to make sure I get really great clients... I dont know I'm confused. I know that an unsatisfied person leaves and tells as many people as they can their bad story about the company, and even some of the people that hear the story tell people. One bad customer can impact your business in big ways. Of course if you floor the customer, and go way beyond expectations, how many people will the satisfied customer tell? I guess it probably depends on their nature, but I'd reason to guess its a lot less that when it was a bad deal. Either way, a business should always be run in a professional manner, with the ultimate goal to please the customers, even if you have to lose a little business now and again, it will be worth it in the long run.
posted by Bryan at 1/18/2003 08:11:00 AM

Ketchup, its that nice paste of tomatoes which is perfect for almost any kind of potato. I'm one of those people that likes to pour on a little extra of the red stuff to make sure it tastes awesome. The thing I'm frustrated about is those little ketchup packets. For an average large fry from McDonalds you need at least five or six of these small contraptions to properly douse your fries. The kicker is, the McDonalds near my work right now puts them in the bag for you. How many does the cashier give me? Two, three if I'm lucky, so I have to ask for more. Then they give you the weird look. If say a normal ketchup person uses two or three, then why not make the packet bigger in the first place. It should hold enough for one container of fries. That way us non-normal ketchup lovin people can get two of them, and not have to worry about the mess of opening a dozen. Maybe they are small in the first place because of all the school children that find them too much fun to play with, less mess. My vote is for bigger packets. :)
posted by Bryan at 1/16/2003 03:12:00 PM

Hair... I was thinking about this in the shower, every morning I wake up and shampoo my hair, then I condition it. Afterwards, I dry it off, and put junk in it to make it stick together. Seems a little wrong doesnt it? I mean here I just spent 2-3 minutes making it sparkly clean, then I go and put basically sticky dirt in my hair to mold it into the proper form. I should just get it cut short enough to not have to worry about it in the morning huh. I guess I could be a woman, who has long long hair, then I'd have to take 10 minutes to get it clean, then put curlers in it, and hair spray and moose, and all sorts of other rituals to get it perfect. Maybe they should get it cut short too... it would help society focus more on being productive and helping others in ways. I mean it would basically add an hour to womans day right? If you could only change society with a snap of your fingers. Then of course men wouldnt have the pleasure of oogling and staring at such lovely creatures as my magical marla. Its a catch 22, to increase productivity of society one must reduce art and beauty, or vice versa... where is the middle ground here? ttfn.
posted by Bryan at 1/15/2003 12:39:00 PM

Computers... yeah I know I just talked about flat tires, but I guess this past week just isnt my week because my laptop died... again. The whole problem started a few months back with a loverly computer just plain not responding very fast, it finally got to a point where I couldnt stand it so I sent it in for repair. They kept it for a week, and replaced the CPU according to the sheet it was returned with. Problem number two happened last week, the hard drive failed, which I think was a direct cause of the CPU having problems earlier. Anywho, now this problem takes over... just plain will not load windows, it freezes. I'm trapped in canada land, and cant get a hold of anyone on the american help desk. So I'm without my laptop for another two weeks I'm estimating. For one such as myself, who's life is very closely integrated with such a device it will be quite a long two weeks. I guess its just a forwarnment to please forgive my tardyness in the email reply department.
posted by Bryan at 1/14/2003 11:43:00 PM

Websites... I design them, its one of the things that I love to do, except I think I'm actually getting bored of doing it. I mean I've designed tons, and even this new version of bry.net is phenomenal in my mind, it has reached a point where I get cool ideas in my head, and think they are awesome, but I just want them to magically do themselves. I dont want to spend the time developing the piece of code, I know what I want, and it should just be done. If I was only omnipotent eh? Anywho, I'm working on our wedding website http://wedding.bry.net/ and its coming along fairly well, except I dont have any images to tie into it yet, or what angles to take. If you have some ideas let me know. And of course once I pour all this effort into it, what do we do when its done with? I mean besides put the pictures up eventually. :) Send me some ideas will ya? I mean you read this far.
posted by Bryan at 1/13/2003 01:01:00 PM

Consciousness- a true mystery to all, what is it really. If I spend all day online chatting my online friends, I'm actually in a different world. Only in todays technological design is it truely possible for us to leave our physical world, and to converse with others on a different plane. Yet books, movies, music let us escape as well, but only in a one way fashion. The internet will revolutionize what consciousness is. Is it the culmination of all knowledge in society? To a certain extent yes. But in all seriousness what is consciousness, it is my version of the world, my ability to reason and think things through with logic, emotions, and biases that my life up to this point has molded into me. Are dogs conscious? I know when I hold them up to a mirror they dont bark or react like they've seen a new dog, they must know that image in the mirror is themselves. They definatly have the ability to think for themselves since when I want them to do something they can be sooo stubborn. But maybe being conscious is just that top level of the mind, id, superego, and ego, right? Its just the place that you are aware of. And of course in the end its just a bunch of collective atoms passing around other atoms which takes on a form, that we call consciousness. Did you know that children up to a certain age can for the most part have half of their brains removed, loosing sligh motor functions on one side of their body, but being able to speak well, and do almost anything in life? Very interesting.
posted by Bryan at 1/12/2003 09:44:00 AM