http://www.zabaduba.com Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:25:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At work the other day, and the local news had a story on about cheap gas prices in the area. My coworker saw the piece and I heard him exclaim, "Man! Gas for $2.35? Awesome!" No, it isn't. Think back a year. $2.35 a gallon was high. Ridiculously high. People were bitching ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/11/15/what-a-deal/ Why are things "old-fashioned" yet "newfangled?" You never hear about "new-fashioned" stuff or "oldfangled" items. What is "fangled," anyway? "Yeah, we've been fangling stuff like this for years, but this is the newfangled way of doing it. Lotta progress in this here fangle procedure, that's for sure." I'm just looking for ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/11/15/old-vs-new/ Now that October is over, can we please stop with all the Breast Cancer Awareness? Don't get me wrong, I'm against cancer in all its forms, as it's rather prevalent in my family and I've lost several relatives to The Big C. And as a heterosexual guy, I'm against anything ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/11/02/yes-thank-you-im-aware/ Being something of a horror buff, I used to love Halloween. As a kid, it meant costumes and free candy, which is something of a miracle to a six-year-old. Once I got too old for Trick or Treat, I could always count on loads of horror movies on TV, maybe ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/10/31/wheres-a-hockey-mask-wearing-lunatic-when-you-need-one/ So, I'm surfing around the Web today, and I see one of many ads for Obama, exhorting me to vote for him. Fine as far as it goes, but this one attempts to engage me by asking if I've voted yet. Then it has three radio buttons I can click ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/10/25/221/ Is there some sort of award in television broadcasting for coming up with the most "clever" male-centric sound-alike terminology? In the last two weeks on the CBS News, I've seen stories about how manorexia is on the rise, how to decipher a man's brocabulary, and how to tell, if you're ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/10/19/man-up/ I got thinking about pierced ears the other day. I know, it's a weird thing to consider, they're so ubiquitous. Women have them. Men have them. Hell, I've seen newborn infants with them. Very commonplace. But, realize, at some point in history, someone had to say, "Hey, I know what ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/10/11/seemed-like-a-good-idea/ Apparently having not read any reviews, heard any criticism, or watched the actual film, George Lucas is, according to Harrison Ford in a recent Los Angeles Times interview, in "think mode" for a fifth Indiana Jones movie, based on the financial success of the last one. And the destruction of all ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/10/06/so-no-accumulated-memory-whatsoever/ Just a helpful little tip to companies: If you're going to hire someone to work in a customer service capacity, either phone support or cash register jockey or restaurant waitstaff or anything requiring actual communication with the customer, could you please make sure that they speak the language fluently? Call ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/10/01/dankoo-for-caing-how-bay-i-hep-yu/ I can't be the only one who's thought of this. The whole economic bailout plan they're debating in Washington right now? The one that's going to require taxpayers to save the banking industry as we know it? Why don't they just shelve it for the time being, and get money ... http://www.zabaduba.com/2008/09/25/dude-bail/