The hazards of headphones
I’ve often wanted to do this to people who forget that the rest of the world can hear them too.
Does your boss want you dead?
Does your company have a life insurance policy on you? No, I’m not talking about that $10,000 “benefit” in your compensation package. I’m talking about a much larger policy that provides a tax break to the company while you’re alive — and tax free benefits for the company when you die. Even if you die [...]
Anybody want a Satanic Toaster?
Check out this eBay auction for a Satanic Toaster.
Thought for the day
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.
Happy b-day Robbie the Robot
Well, it’s not actually Robbie the Robot’s birthday. Rather, it’s the 90th birthday of Robbie’s designer, Robert Kinoshita, and apparently he’s not well. So Jupiter-2 is requesting that everyone send their birthday greetings. They’ll be printed out and presented to him on his birthday, February 24th.
So glad I live in the south
Apparently somebody’s fed up with winter.
A busy week
It’s been a week since I posted here, but it’s not for lack of trying. Since the last time I posted, I have: Gotten my oil changed Driven 2500 miles Dealt with a dead battery (that turned out to be a bad terminal) Misplaced a friend at the airport Attended the Florida State Fair (sort [...]
Today’s cowboy wisdom
As I tear my hair out trying to finish an article before heading off to pow-wow, I leave you with today’s Cowboy Wisdom: Life is simpler when you plough around the stump.
Run, Jerry, Run
I knew that Jerry Springer had once been mayor of Cincinatti. What I didn’t know is that he’s … well … really, really good. I’d vote for him in a heartbeat, for anything he was running for. Maybe I’m just crazy, but listen to this episode of This American Life. They have a 31 minute [...]
Stable and functioning at the highest level
In response to a followup from David Bridgewater’s comment on things I haven’t done yet, I was looking up Sealand and discovered Googlism, a site that “will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! ” So of course, like any good netizen, I looked up Googlisms for myself and discovered this [...]