It’s Christmastime!
What’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
It’s Christmastime!
What’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
Mind your manners…with Billy Quan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W8jT5pTwOc
I saw “It’s Christmastime” and started hoping for a Die Hard video… Does that make me weird?
We’re doing a “Christmas Movies & TV” theme for the big family gift exchange thingy, and I’m giving a “Die Hard” DVD. So…
Holy Kerp! (Take that, filter)
Basil, Harvey, and FrankJ posting all on the same day.
It’s a Christmas miracle . . . That’s right, Zuzu, that’s right!:
“HACK!” The Herald’s angle sings . .
Robot:
“C: URL-y Brown is a blockchain-head, but he did get us a nice simple logic tree.”
Other robots:
“♩Ohh-ohh-oh-hh0-1-0-1-0-1-ooo-ooh-ooh-ooh .. . ♩”
[Robot killing spree upon humans ensues. Snoopy does happy dance.]
I just spent a few days in CA on business. At the hotel restaurant the bill has a notice –
this bill has a surcharge due to the recent state minimum wage increase. this goes to pay the newly mandated hourly pay for our employees. this is not a tip.
So I just signed my bill and didnt leave a tip.
The waiter took my check and then came back and awkwardly explained to me the surcharge thing again and pointed out that I didn’t tip him.
I said “what difference does it make? You got a raise and the surcharge pays for it. You wanted $15 an hour as a “living wage”. when you were making 5-6 bucks an hour we felt bad for you and understood tips were part of your income. Now you’re making $15 an hour and I dont feel bad for you anymore. Nobody tips ME for doing my job.”
I think he wanted to argue with me but knew I had a very compelling argument and tipping IS optional.
So I just spent the better part of a week just paying my bill and not leaving tips. I paid $18 for a hamburger. Without the tip.
another drawback of visiting Commiefornia is I keep waking up at 3 am because of the time difference.
I don’t want to make the effort to reset my sleep schedule cause I’ll get back to the US in a few days and sleep till 8 or 9 and everyone will think I’m some kind of lazy Californian.