Showing posts with label Rhetorical question. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhetorical question. Show all posts

March 26, 2009

The Internet needs a proofreader

Is it wrong for me to be bothered by the fact that this article about writing grant proposals contains more than a dozen grammatical errors? Or that this article had so many, I stopped counting?

August 16, 2008

Batteries included -- for what they're worth

Why does a $30 cell phone bleep at you before its battery dies, but a $30,000 car doesn't?

August 8, 2008

Goes without saying

Given the technology available, why do I still have to give directions to pizza delivery people?

It seems that, no matter where I order from, I get a phone call from the driver because he can't figure out how to get to my house.

I suppose if I were out on some uncharted rural track, this would be necessary. But I'm only 1.8 miles from the nearest pizza restaurant. To get from there to here is one left turn and a right turn. That's it.

But I just got the usual call about needing directions.

They have my address. Even if they can't afford GPS devices for all the drivers, can't they use this site or this one and figure it out?