When I woke up this morning, a copy of this clipped from the newspaper was scotch-taped to my monitor. Gee, I wonder what he was trying to say? Is it pathetic that if I look down toward the top of my desk, B. says, “Leave your iPhone alone and talk to me!”…and I feel a […]

I had sent P. a link to the NYT article with instructions for making a cholesterol nightmare called the “Bacon Explosion”. Two pounds of bacon, woven around and put inside two pounds of Italian sausage, seasoned with barbecue sauce. He’s 100% carnivore and thinks that fat and meat are two of the four official food […]

I prefer dark themes because light ones are like staring into the sun, but since the vast majority of dark themes are created by guys, and guys tend not to be serious fans of pink (even when they make pink themes for their girlfriends, they’re always light), I customised my own. It completely lacks any […]

If you are trying to give computer advice and would like to seem credible, for the love of $deity(s), don’t say “virii”. That is not even a word at all, let alone the plural form of the word “virus”! You’re doing it because you think it makes you sound smarter, since you obviously know that […]

At some point in time last summer, maybe early last fall, someone from Flickr sent me a message, asking to use one of my milkweed bug photos for a book. The name of the publisher was vaguely familiar, so I googled it, and they publish educational nonfiction books (not text books), primarily aimed toward kids […]

“Rampage!” (featuring Road, Weather and Tornado “Rampages!” and yes, those are sarcastic quotes), Wreckreation Nation (I am not making that name up), Destroyed In Seconds and the whole slew of crap reality shows, the newest of which I believe is called Cougar, and features an “older woman”; the attentions of whom are sought my a […]

I don’t think it’s any secret that I hate advertising. I block nearly all of them with AdBlock+ and NoScript (whitelisting few sites, temporarily allowing only scripts critical to viewing content I want), and if the occasional animated GIF slips through on some random site that I rarely visit, then I’ll just “quick-nuke” it with […]

I didn’t see these AT&T ads because not only did I not live here in 1993, but I didn’t have cable, and indeed, my TV wasn’t plugged in for a couple of years (unplugged it to move it once, forgot to plug it back in and just never bothered after that because I didn’t care), […]

I had to “liberate” this clip from LiveLeak because it was just made of awesome. The soldiers are Canadian; in Brussels for a service to commemorate the D-day landings in 1944. The little boy is Belgian, and is dressed in a replica of a Canadian Highlanders uniform (don’t know which regiment). He’s waiting for them […]

Telenor said it saw “no legal basis” for the demand for ISPs to control or assess the content that users download. “At the same time, Telenor does not condone pirating of material and illegal file sharing,” Telenor said in the statement. “We comply with all relevant laws and regulations and can see no legal basis […]