MooQuack

There’s an online store I use a bit called “Basement Books” who specialise in remaindered books. From their website: “We sell remaindered books. Often when a new title is going to be released, the publishers can only guess at how many of that title they are going to sell. A lot of the time they [...]

Last night I left my housekeys in Geelong and only discovered this after arriving home at 10:30pm and trying to unlock my garage with a handful of air. With no spare keys hidden outside our house, and all my office keys on the same keyring, there was no choice except to turn around and do [...]

Okay, I know the young staff on the checkout at my local Woolworths grocery store are not hired for their ability to do more than stand and swipe products over a scanner, but tonight was really stretching the levels of “WTF?”… With ~15 items on the belt and 7 bags to put the items into, [...]

I saw a press release which made me shake my head this evening.  The purpose of the press release was to advise of a merger between Thesisdom and WritingShield.  Only problem?  The SPOTD who wrote the press release spelled “shield” as “sheild” [sic] the whole way through it, which made me think that perhaps Thesisdom [...]

At my local Woolworth’s supermarket, they don’t have a hiring policy which includes an aptitude test.  Basically, their test is “are you alive?” and if there’s no answer, they hire them.  It’s the only way I can explain it. We take our own recyclable canvas bags to the supermarket and have 7 of them, 6 [...]