Computerspeak

Just got a phone-call, computerized voice-message, which (for purposes of the plot) read off my address...
I happen to live on an Avenue (as opposed to a Street or a Boulevard), and the computer read it off as XXXX Whatever Ave... and pronounced Ave as in "Ave Maria." Do people not KNOW - or not care? - that mistakes like this make their businesses appear to be run by doofuses? There are giant billboards I've seen while driving up Lincoln Blvd that have mis-spelled words in them: "You spend thousands of dollars on advertising and don't bother to proof-read? What's that about?"

Another day of, "You can't do your work because there's all these other things that have got to be done."

And the cat is grabbing my hands and chewing my thumbs.
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Published on August 12, 2011 13:26
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