Apt142’s Blog

I’ve been listening to a new podcast lately. Fear the Boot is a podcast that focuses on various aspects on Role-playing Games (RPG’s). A recent one caught my attention. (I”m still catching up, so recent is my time frame, not theirs.) There was a conversation about religion and RPG’s. Mostly this […]

I blog infrequently. So, I never did finish out what happened with Arby’s. The last blog I did on it was this on: Missed My Point.
Ok, so I sent that email in to the person that responded to me. I didn’t get a response back. I’m guessing that either they thought […]

People are highly amusing to me. I include myself in that detached observation.
One of the things that amuses me is our ability to assume false conceptions about our environment. Or even to be completely and willingly ignorant of our environment. Our environment has become so safe and self regulating that we forget […]

I go to the Y about twice a week on average. I take my ipod and usually hit the weight training equipment and treadmills. It all depends on the mood I’m in. After a few visits I start to get bored of the work out routines I do. I apparently have […]

In response their response, I wrote the following. I won’t explain myself here because I hope the letter speaks for itself:

Dear Mrs. Lefler,
While I appreciate the effort on your response, I do not think it addresses the problems I have outlined. I believe that particular Arby’s has systemic bad customer service and […]

So, I wrote a letter of complaint to Arby’s you can find that that and all Arby’s related articles here: http://blog.apartment142.com/category/arbys/. They attempted to call me twice. Unfortunately the first time I didn’t realize who it was and refused to answer the phone. The second time I was knee deep […]

I recently wrote a story entitled Drive Thru. This story is in fact mostly a true story. Some dialogs in it are verbatim. I wrote it one afternoon after my wife was having a particularly bad day. It was meant to be a comedy to cheer her up. And it […]

When I first started my job there was no end of tasks that I could get my informancing hands on and improve. There was a lot of data sitting around in what I’ve called silos. That is, the data existed in a database but that database was not connected with other databases […]

June
The day had been a long one. It was the sort of work day one stares at a clock in an attempt to will it to move faster. It was over now. Thankfully over. All Charles wanted to do was grab some dinner and poop out on the couch with […]

This is a phrase I first saw in the book Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. The phrase refers to work that is devoid of creative thinking.
For example, a company is starting a new product line. In the beginning of that process, they need engineers to design the product. Artists and graphic […]