Scott’s Blog of Doom

Just to hit a couple of quick things that piss me off on a regular basis about having e-mail.

1)  Legalese at the bottom of e-mails.  I know I’ve bitched about this one before, but I feel the need to emphasize how much I hate people who e-mail from corporate accounts which are signed with that standard disclaimer about how the information inside is confidential and if I receive it in error I’m obligated to print off a copy and swallow it for legal reasons.  Sure, they do it to cover their asses, but it just makes me give a reflex action FUCK OFF and FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON because I have to deal with enough junk clogging my inbox as it is without having to deal with a guilt trip from a form letter for reading an e-mail that I didn’t want to get in the first place. 

2)  My second “Fuck off and die” today goes to automated confirmation e-mails sent to the wrong address, ie, MINE.  Why do I hate them?  Because inevitably they are signed with an impersonal “Do not reply to this address, this is an automated system” type of warning, which means that if I want to prevent myself from getting put on the mailing list of whatever two-bit airline rewards program or church mailing list that accidentally receives my e-mail address for someone else named “S. Keith” who happened to type their e-mail wrong, I have to go to the trouble of looking up their website and finding contact info and trying to determine what the right e-mail address is supposed to be.  And really, since it’s not my fault nor responsibility, I think Gmail should just put a “Shove it up your ass” button on the interface along with “Reply” and “Forward”, to respond to those automated e-mails in the most suitable way and express how much I enjoy having my time wasted like that.  The most annoying case of this was when some shithead stole my identity on XBox Live and used my e-mail address AND name (as a note, I don’t play online games because I don’t get along well with others, so if you ever see “me” online playing something it’s an imposter) and I had to endure endless confirmation e-mails from Microsoft with no way to reply to them or log into XBox Live to at least hijack the jerk’s password and steal my name back.  I do know that whoever is doing it uses an American Express Gold card to do so, so he’d better hope that it never sends an e-mail with his credit card number in it, because Amex will quickly get a call from me about fraud and identity theft charges. 

OK, I feel better now.  Carry on with your lives again. 

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/talks-day-8-toldja-amptp-quits-talks-issues-statement-filled-with-lies/

Just when we thought there might be movement in the WGA strike, the producers walk away and now it looks like the entire TV season is pretty much a wash unless there’s a miracle.  And if it goes to June, like many are predicting, then the Screen Actor’s Guild will likely join the writers on strike when THEIR deal expires, and Hollywood will be pretty much shut down.

Hope you enjoy crap like “Clash of the Choirs” with Michael Bolton and Nick Lachey, cuz that’s all we’re getting for the next year, it looks like.