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<\/a>Shaking my head in dismay, I was suddenly struck with the enormous carbon footprint my innocent request for a piece of downloadable software had incurred. I swore right then and there to never tell Al Gore. But after all, I’d gotten the software, right? So who was I to complain? It was then that I turned to pick up the mailing envelope and peek inside… only to discover it was empty. They had shipped me a huge box containing an empty envelope.<\/p>\nAs of this writing, someone is traveling to my office to recover the enormous box and begin an investigation on why it’s so profoundly empty. So not only did we pay to ship this box of empty promises across the city, we are now paying to ship it back. I suppose I can look forward to another honkin’ box in my office in a couple of weeks. Hopefully this one will at least contain the CD somewhere within its vast innards.<\/p>\n
We’re all hoping Obama can fix the economy, but he can’t fix this sort of institutionalized stupid.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>I scratched my head a bit, but figured that maybe they had shipped a retail package in its box. Whatever. I proceeded to open the box. The first thing I encountered was a padded envelope. You know, the sort typically used to mail CDs. I set it aside for a moment, curious what else lay in the treasure chest. After digging out 2 cubic feet of packing material I discovered that in fact, the entire box contained nothing more than the mailing envelope and lots and lots of wadded paper.<\/p>\n