I still don’t care much for the song but DiCaprio can really move.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Sometime in 1988…
My mother: How can the song be “Angel Eyes”? The boy can’t see. That’s not mean. That’s just the truth.
SER: It’s possible he’s singing from another person’s perspective.
My mother: No, he’s with the girl in the video. He can’t see her. You could take it seriously if he was singing about her voice, because a blind person’s hearing is supposed to be strong.
SER: So… “Angel Voice”?
Joan Fontaine…
So, this has been a crummy day for fans of old movies.
However, 96 is an impressive run, and Fontaine’s elder sister Olivia de Havilland is still alive. Great genes, I suppose.
Facebook Etiquette…
Charlie looked up from his Surface tablet.
“That photo of you and the girls in matching sunglasses is a big hit on Facebook.”
“It is a nice shot of me,” Gina corroborated. “How many ‘Likes’ did it receive?”
“Lemme check. You know, people complain that Surface doesn’t have the Facebook app but you can access the Web version just as easily through Internet Explorer.”
“I’m sure,” she replied, only half-listening, as she read quietly from the Wall Street Journal app on her iPad.
“Forty-eight likes,” Charlie declared. “That’s funny. You’re not one of them.”
“Liking your own photo is tacky, Charlie. Besides, I tend to filter the profiles of people who post a lot about their kids.”
“Even me?”
“Especially you,” Gina confirmed. “I can’t make personal exceptions or I lose all credibility.”
serhasacomplaint 
How to lose friends and alienate people: Airline Edition…
So, Delta will honor the ridiculously low fares (some cheaper than checking luggage for the same flight) that turned up incorrectly on its Web site.
Reading the comments for this NPR article, I find it interesting that the discussion went from whether you should take advantage of someone else’s obvious mistake to the belief that Delta sucks and deserves everything that’s coming to it.
For example: “Does Delta help me when I mistakenly book a flight on the wrong day? No, they charge hundreds of dollars in change fees. They also cancel flights that aren’t full enough, bump the casual flyer in favor of elites regardless of who bought their ticket first, and engage in a whole slew of other questionable behaviors, so no. I don’t feel bad at all.”
And..
“Maybe we should ask the airlines about ethics. Is it ethical to charge your customers baggage fees that bear no resemblance to the actual cost of handling baggage, just because you can, and just because your customers have no other choice?”
And…
“Considering the airlines have no compunction about cancelling scheduled flights that aren’t full enough to be profitable, then leave me in a lurch scrambling to make connections and a meeting waiting on the other end (it has happened, twice in the past three years), I wouldn’t think twice about taking advantage of an advertised price. Quid agatur circa venit circum.”
And of course…
“This is like asking a Jew in a concentration camp if it is ethical to steal bread from Hitler.”
Posted by Stephen Robinson on December 28, 2013 in Social Commentary
Tags: Delta, NPR