And here's the last (and one of my favorite) categories of my blast from the past, some times over the last 14 months when Orac decided to take the "respectful" out of Respectful Insolence:
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Orac knows all. Orac sees all. Orac discovers all.
Orac is disturbed.
He had entered the ScienceBlogs network expecting rapid integration into its continuum, allowing him the communing with other science-loving beings that he craved. But it had not happened.
Something was wrong.
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I was just reading some of your old posts, and I totally sympathize with your complaint about Cablevision's synthesized-voice phone system. Did your problem ever get addressed? And did you try saying "technical assistance"? We were "sold" to Cingular about a year ago, and have to survive the contract period to avoid loss of $alot. They have this system, and I've found that the only thing I can say that the system "understands" is "technical assistance." Fortunately it works well, I think because all the ATT techies were sold to Cingular too, and they don't like it any more than I do, and they have at their command the changes and considerations I desire. Even so, the experience is wearing thin.