> Why is it, that fast food places insist on hiring morons?

This one is easy: It's because morons are generally unable to procure gainful employment at institutions paying more than $X.XX/hour (where "X.XX" is a rather small number), so they tend to flock to low-paying jobs - as do teenagers, who intersect disproportionately with the moron class in my experience.

Another group of people in this working environment are entirely too smart for fast food, and realize this - but for various reasons required to hold such a job until they can find a position elsewhere. These people aren't so much morons as they are anti-social, and don't find $X.XX/hour a reasonable enough compensation to care about the sogginess of your french fries or the hardness of your buns.

The real problem here (and this ties into your earlier entry about Walmart) is that consumers - that'd be us - need to either have reasonable expectations about the products and services we buy vis a vis how much we pay for them, or we need to get used to to the idea of paying a little bit more for quality.

That's not to say that I don't make the occasional run to Taco Bell (who once, inexplicably, ran out of BEANS of all things) or Wienershnitzel. If they screw up my order - which they do a fair amount of time - I get annoyed, but by keeping things in perspective I'm not nearly as grumpy as when a higher-class (and cost) establishment screws up.

In any case, it pays to put things in perspective: They're working in fast food, you're not. It could be worse. :>

> Finally, I'm so sick of seeing Halo crap on the tech channel.
> We get it, already. Not everyone who watches that channel
> thinks Halo is the greatest thing next to grandma's apple pie.
> ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

Are you referring to G4TechTV by chance? That channel went downhill when G4 bought TechTV out. Aside from X-Play (and Morgan Webb - Mmmm), there just isn't much of value there any longer. I suspect most of the major focuses/etc. about any given newly released game on there are actually bought and paid for by the game publishers. Sort of a combination of editorial and advertising content.

Tidbit: I was once interviewed for G4 a few years back, when I went to E3. Not sure if it ever aired though.

Tidbit 2: Halo actually does kick ass - at least the original did, not sure about Halo 2. Microsoft may own Bungie, but for a long time Bungie was a Mac-only developer - before they sold their souls. I attribute Halo's coolness to experience gained from Bungie's development of Marathon.

>(who once, inexplicably, ran out of BEANS of all things)

Out of beans? That's actually kinda funny. I probably would have laughed over something like that! ;-) Yeah, I normally don't expect too much when I go to a fast food place, knowing most people there are as you explained, but this time it just irked me. I mean, they took my order from me, then turned around and gave me the wrong one...again... (>_

>Are you referring to G4TechTV by chance?

Yup! The one and only! I complained about them earlier with their rediculous airing of "Gungrave". I've only been watching the channel for about two months or so, so I wouldn't notice any differences really. As for Halo, I imagine it's a good game for those who like first person shooters, but I'm not one of them. I didn't mind when they did the all day Halo thing the day it was released, but all they do is replay the same thing over and over and over again...UGH!!! Though, to be fair, I did get to see a little bit of the new Devil May Cry last night...that made me happy! :-P Hey, you wouldn't happen to know anything about the "Halo" books, would you? Mikey, a friend from work, said there were books. They sounded interesting, even though I don't think the game would be my cup of tea.

Oops! I meant to say that Taco Bell running out of beans was pretty funny! LOL Forgive me, it's early and I just woke up! (@-@)

> Hey, you wouldn't happen to know anything about
> the "Halo" books, would you?

Nope - I read a fair bit of science fiction, but I tend to stay away from anything based on film/TV/game franchise. Such stuff is usually written by sub-par writers, or by established writers who are 'slumming' to gain an easy paycheck.

For what it's worth, though, Halo _does_ have a pretty good storyline for a first person shooter (in general, FPS games are becoming more cinematic and story driven than they used to be). It's possible that in the hands of a good writer with an interest in the plot they could make a good book out of it.

Bungie's old game from way back when, Marathon, had one of the best developed storylines in a video game I've ever seen. Doubt it'll ever be resurrected, though.

Hmmm, interesting. Yeah, Mike (who doesn't play videogames at all) said the Halo books were really good. Maybe I'll check them out.

As for FPS games, I don't know if I'll ever get into them. I plan on buying Resident Evil 4, though I'm not sure if that really counts as a FPS...probably not... LOL