Animated emoticons are kind of cute, as long as they’re small and not overused. Animated avatars should be considered an offense punishable by drawing and quartering. So should stupid pictures of your homely brats, but animations are even worse. I don’t even care if it’s funny or cute because it’s only funny or cute THE […]

Dumbass bloggers, stop wasting my electrons to warn me about an advert I will never even see. Anyone who wants the web in an even remotely bearable form has been blocking advertising since before the beginning of the new millenium, and that includes me. The last time I saw advertising on the web was when […]

Just when you think things could not possibly get worse, your neighbor turns up with a giant (12″) bobblehead of Hank Williams Jr., dressed in black with a black cowboy hat and wearing big black aviator glasses, and puts it on the table. You know–the table that’s covered with a flowered vinyl tablecloth and is […]

Well, I found out today why I had so many blurry shots of stuff that I was sure I had in focus yesterday. The goddamn camera decided to give up the ghost. I think it’s the sensor; I have no preview in the LCD, which would still mean I could use the camera if I […]

I like looking at pictures on Flickr. Some are good, some not so good and some damned good. Then, there are the pretentious arses who feel the need to use artsy-fartsy titles for everything. It’s a picture, not a painting, and even if you think you’re an artist, you’re not, you’re a photographer. I have […]

Got a 125 and a 55 on the way. Oh, do you? Well, that’s a little factoid that you conveniently forgot to mention before I spent half an hour explaining why you had way too many huge fish and one far too aggressive fish for your current tank. Suuuure you have new ones on the […]

Yes, PLEASE email me two fucking enormous pictures of your fish first thing in the morning! Don’t crop a thing–with truly humongous pictures, I can absolutely see exactly why she has cloudy eyes when all you have for water parameters is a vague, subjective description, entirely free of those pesky numbers, courtesy of some dickhead […]

Jeezus. One person says there’s a weight in a filter. Within less than a page, the weight is unprotected lead and they’re wondering how long it takes for lead poisoning to kill fish. Jump to conclusions much, do we? Baaa! Fuckin’ sheeple–not one logical thought or a single scrap of common sense among the lot […]

I don’t give a rat’s ARSE what you eat. Be vegetarian, be ovo-lacto vegetarian, be a fuckin’ card-carrying PETA freak bean-chomping, farting vegan if you want and it’s all the same to me, but you DON’T get to force your choices on a tiny, helpless fish that can’t even say, “Hey, dumbass–gimme something fit to […]

I’m here to help you, but I am not here to choose your fish, do your research or make suggestions based upon stock that may or may not be at the home of a breeder in another state whose name I don’t even know. If you’re concerned that he won’t have in stock the fish […]