I was watching one of the House episodes we’ve DVRed at 0400, and saw a new commercial for the Total Body Gym or something. It’s the workout system that Chuck Norris endorses. I know it’s new because in this one, Chuck has a full on porn stach. The thing is straight out of the 70’s. Oddly, I feel compelled to at least look up some info and reviews on the system now…
Even at my work they’ve gotten into the conservation ethic to the point that we have an official Energy Conversation Program for the base. As far as I can tell, they exist solely to send out emails like the following:
For Energy Efficiency!
This Holiday Season look for the “ENERGY STAR” label when shopping for electronic appliances. An “ENERGY STAR” appliance uses 10-50% less energy and water than standard models.
It’s not bad as far it goes: nice little tip, quick read. The problem is
that they are attaching a sizable (in this case 350k) Powerpoint that says exactly the same thing. The slide has a couple of pretty graphics, but really its only purpose to clutter up my mailbox and make me mad about wasted attachments. That detracts from the overall message and leaves a negative impression.
One of the buildings our units reside in is getting the cable lines
worked on. This leads to the following bit from the notification email:
.bq If you have persistent phone problems for more than one hour, please
call [edited].
Pre-Wrath, I was only scanning about 215 pages of stuff. Ever since, I’m scanning about 360. Lots of free transfers, a few people trying to capitalize on a new expansion, there all kinds of reasons it could be so big. We’ll see if that level of selling is maintainable.