Systemic Hacking
Pet Peeve of the Day: Coughing in public. Offices and movie theaters should have “coughing” and “non-coughing” sections. I’ve been dealing with some low level virus or allergy attack for about a week now. No fever or headache, no chills or muscle fatigue, not much of a runny nose. The only real symptoms [...]
The Fu(nky)ture Ain’t What It Used To Be
In the comments to yesterday’s post, Lurker ZuzuT said: I would like to hear your opinion of the recent changes at Funky Winkerbean. I was disturbed that the one-armed girl is now married to the comic book guy.
Good question! That is so totally unrealistic. Everyone knows that comic book store owners (not to [...]
When Is A Law Not A Law?
It occurs to me I didn’t say anything about the elections this week. There’s not much to say. My local city had a contentious mayor’s race for once. We barely escaped having a teenage mayor. Okay, so she isn’t actually a teenager, but she’s damn close (26). She was basically running [...]
Reach Out and Grope Someone
Got this from InfK a few days ago:
Speaking of alternate channels of communication, let me suggest a blog post topic for your next slow-news-day – how do folks keep in touch these days? For years, amongst my peeps, “everyone” was on AoL-IM (and to an extent, the Usenet newsgroup that bound us all together). [...]
This Is Not My Beautiful Blog
Now for another session of my favorite game, “How did you get here?” I love to look at the logs and see what search terms unknown surfers used to find my site. This is also a great NaBloPoMo filler post – easy to write and it satiates the appetite.
Infuriatingly, the #1 search term continues [...]
Infernal Beeping
Pet Peeve of the Day: Okay, I’m getting really tired of this. Someone keeps hijacking my wireless temperature sensors. First, it was the magic clock (the outside temperature display on my atomic clock always reads something real, even though I never hooked up the remote transmitter; obviously it is picking it up from a [...]
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