Ok, This is going to date me but I don’t care. I think that television designers have taken a good idea entirely too far. Specifically, I’m talking about the remote control. You see I remember a time when television sets didn’t come with a remote control. The closest thing you could have to one was [...]
There’s something that I have seen internet marketers doing entirely too much of in their sales pages. It doesn’t matter what they’re selling, whether it’s an ebook, a marketing course, custom hats, fireplace inserts, or car insurance, most of them seem to have the idea that their sales page needs to be nine miles long. [...]
Being helpful is a good thing. Yet there is also a saying, “Too much of anything, even a good thing, isn’t necessarily good.” And there is living proof of this in the local nutjob I refer to as “Mr. Helpful” (name changed to protect the utterly aggravating). While it seems sometimes that I am his [...]
When I expressed massive relief that Mr. Helpful was finally targeting somebody else for once I may well have spoken entirely too soon. He’s apparently quite capable of irritating the living snot out of more than one person at a time. I say this because no more than a few minutes after I posted that [...]
Mr. Helpful is at it again. However this time I can relax because he is not after me (for once, I do seem to be one of his favorite victims). This time the subject of his attentions (translation: poor hapless victim) is a middle aged guy down the block. This guy, I’ll call him “Kojak”, [...]
