As happens every couple of weeks or so, I got barked at again today for letting my dog walk off-leash at the University. The person complaining was new, but much of the conversation wasn’t. What was new, however, is that he volunteered the reason why all dogs on campus should be on a leash withoutContinue reading “BCD 10.09.2025”
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BCD 31.08.2025
I’ve been living in the internet Stone Age for some time now, having never gotten around to upgrading my 16 MBits/s DSL hookup. (If you want to know how slow that is, put it this way: I can type these blogs faster than I can upload them to the web.) A lot of people todayContinue reading “BCD 31.08.2025”
BCD 06.04.2025
Last year I wrote about how my private health-insurance company was holding out providing us, its customers, with any form of physical healthcare card, ostensibly with the motivation to save us money because of the cost of developing such a cutting-edge system. This all, of course, is a load of crap. First off, saving usContinue reading “BCD 06.04.2025”
BCD 12.09.2024
Important news coming out of the business world this week, with the stunning announcement that the Campbell’s Soup Company is changing its name after 155 years to simply the Campbell’s Company. It’s all still subject to stakeholder approval, but you can feel the tremors on Wall Street from here. But, let’s let the CEO ofContinue reading “BCD 12.09.2024”
BCD 06.09.2024
Right. Time to get a little more controversial than usual as well as to return this BCD subtext to its origins. I originally launched this subtext—bonehead comment of the day—to fill the then current lull in admin stupidity with quotes from people who should have known better. Although there have been a few of those,Continue reading “BCD 06.09.2024”
BCD 21.08.2024
Ah, IT. Just gotta love ‘em. I recently signed up for a ride-hailing app for my smart phone. (Not really important which one because they’re all pretty much the same.) The reason it took so long is because these things are pretty much unknown in Germany. When Uber first came out with ride-hailing in GermanyContinue reading “BCD 21.08.2024”
BCD 13.08.2024
More boneheaded crap from those ever-inventive airlines … I was recently on a flight where we were reminded numerous times during boarding to sit in our assigned seats only, which had been allocated for reasons of weight and balance. Umm. How? Doing something like that properly would require that the airlines know how much eachContinue reading “BCD 13.08.2024”
BCD 15.07.2024
For some time now, CNN has been my go-to source for general news. Unfortunately, they’ve shown an increasingly annoying tendency to clickbait their headlines. It all started out innocently enough with the fluff pieces that no one is really interested in. You know, “Two strangers met on a flight to Paris. Find out what happenedContinue reading “BCD 15.07.2024”
BCD 29.02.2024
Together with nearly 10 000 other people, the comedian Richard Lewis died the other day in the US. The media, of course, was gushing. About his talent. About him being a comic’s comic. About his legacy. Like him or hate him (or even wonder who he was), this piece really has nothing directly to do withContinue reading “BCD 29.02.2024”
BCD 11.12.2023
Recently, I wrote about how the University of Not-Bielefeld had set up a centralized system for registering when you were on sick leave (i.e., sick for more than three days in a row). The general idea was that instead of simply informing your boss about being sick, you filled in a form, sent it toContinue reading “BCD 11.12.2023”
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