From Believer interview with writer/director Harold Ramis:
HR: …I can't tell you how many people have told me, "When I go to the movies, I don't want to think."
BLVR: Does that offend you as a filmmaker?
HR: It offends me a human being. Why wouldn't you want to think? What does that mean? Why not just shoot yourself in the fucking head?
Paul Kedrosky discovered yesterday that Alaska Airlines defines ‘On Time’ a bit differently than the rest of us. They announced that his flight would leave “on time” at 10:28, which was an hour after the departure time on his eticket. The gate agent said that 10:28 was still “on time” because it would leave “right at” 10:28.
I have noticed a couple of other terms that the airlines appear to have recently redefined:
1) On a couple of recent flights, a flight attendant announced that it was a “very full flight” so would we all please put our smaller bag under the seat in front of us blah blah. The first time this happened, there were only a handful of middle seats taken on the plane. The second time it happened, the flight had entire rows that were empty.
2) Due to extensive rebooking, I’ve had to call up American twice recently (never a pleasant experience) to change flight reservations. Both times the agent has told me that on at least one leg, there were no more seats that she could assign, the rest of the seats could only be assigned at the airport. The second time it happened I asked what this meant and then cut off her long and meaningless explanation to ask if this was code for “we only have middle seats left.” She gave a curt “Yes” in reply. Hey, at least she was honest.
When I sign up for your site and type in a password, I don’t want or need you to include my password in the confirmation email. If I lose/forget the password, I will hit the ‘lost password?’ link. I will not search my email for the password as I immediately deleted that email you sent, even if the email had other useful information.
If I hit the ‘lost password’ link and put in my email address, do not email me my original password. Send me a new temporary password and then direct me to a page where I can enter in a new password.
I DON’T EVER want to receive an email with my original password. Is this really so strange? The chance of someone intercepting an unencrypted email is rather high, plus my password is then sitting around in Outlook, and, since I forward my personal email to Gmail, on Google’s servers.
And why do you have my unencrypted password on your server, anyway? You should have encrypted it when I first gave it to you before you stored it in your database. It’s 2006, learn some basic data security already.