Past-present confusion in headlines makes me tense

A little friendly banter about an article on Slate.

Dear Xxxx Company: Do you really train your salespeople to act like this?

E-mail I sent yesterday to the “national sales” e-mail address of a large B2B network communications company: Hello. I’m a bottom-tier employee in an office that has been visited (cold) three times in the past few months by sales reps from Xxxx. In two of those instances, I was the person who greeted the sales [...]

“Tired” chords

One night, I figured out the chords to “Tired” by Foo Fighters on my ukulele and posted them on OLGA, the (now defunct) Online Guitar Archive. The content is now on Fretplay.com (OLGA renamed?).

My lone Addictionary entry

Here is my only contribution so far to the online version of the Addictionary. I am pretty proud of this word. Its meaning is instantly understood when it is used in context, and I think it reflects a very common customer experience. However, more than two years after I posted it, it has received one [...]

Opposite of “environmentalist”?

Comments in Jeff McMahon’s Scorched Earth blog regarding antonyms for “environmentalist.”