I'm all about the attention to detale.

• September 4, 2008

And this, kids, is why we have to pay attention. SPAM, how I love thee. I’m sure if you’ve ever used the interweb you’ve probably got one or two of your own along the way. One of my tasks is to cut back on the SPAM that gets through to the rest of the staff, but in the meanwhile to try to minimize the number of false positives. Fair enough, it is what we’ve brought upon ourselves with the underpinnings of email. Read More

This is why we can't have nice things!

• July 29, 2008

So in the interminable quest to explain how my brain works I present to you the following: A friend sends me to this YouTube video (embedding to be fixed when I’m not too brain dead to care). Eleven seconds of wonderment. Wonderful. From there I end up on a bizarre path of YouTube links. Naturally, I can’t help myself. you just know I’ll eventually come up with this one. Yes, that’s Dick Cavett introducing Marshall McLuhan in the background. Read More

Christmas in July

• July 2, 2008

Ohmighod ohmighod ohmighod ohmighod ohmighod! I collected on my Christmas gift today. Waitasec… I don’t have it all out of my system yet. Ohmighod ohmighod ohmighod ohmighod ohmighod! 11:00 PM last night: At least the nights have cooled off. I ought be be able to get to sleep. > toss toss < > turn turn < 6:00 AM: Wide awake. Feeling fidgety and nervous. Check the weather. Scan my standard set of morning websites. Read More

Attention: Morons in the service industry

• May 18, 2008

So I go to Dairy Queen for a treat at the end of the day. I’m liking the idea of a Pina Colada Blizzard, but with bananas included.. Mmm, the very thought made me drool. Sure, it’s a little wacky, but if I’m going for a frozen dessert treat, make mine with fruit and some of that frozen dairy-like substance. I’ll take fruit over chocolate any day. “I’m sorry, we don’t make that. Read More

There HAS to be a deep, moralistic meaning here somewhere...

• April 18, 2008

I love those little snippets of dreams we wake up to. In this case, I’m sitting down with the company Sales Weasel over lunch and he pulls out a fresh, brand new copy of the Bible. “Oh,” I’m taken aback. “I didn’t realize you were a spiritual man.“ “This is the new edition. I absolutely LOVE this book. It speaks directly to me and it’s changed my life from the moment I got it. Read More

Did I see that right?

• April 10, 2008

What the hell was that? Community Server puts asterisks in place when I say “Nazis”jQuery15208121828315779567_1309243377171 If I’m talking about Nazis, I’m probably making a point about Nazis. I don’t need bloody software to protect me and my poor sensitive reader from hearing what I have to say. Fuck. Fuck shit damn hell. Stupid bloody moronic programmers. Either I’m going to have to apologize to the Community Server coders or I’m going to have to apologize to my Mom once this is posted. Read More

Had I known about it, I would have protested 20 years ago...

• April 10, 2008

Some things surprise me still, cynical as I have become lately. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not some long haired hippie running around in my beaded underpants screaming, “Free Tibet!“ Although I would, in fact, consider it much more graceful if China did decide it would probably be okay to let Tibet fall under self-rule. I’m just not involved or aware enough to make an enlightened decision on what is right, although what I do know leans towards a desire for the Tibetans to be self-deterministic. Read More

For the love of the BoFH...

• April 7, 2008

Won’t someone please teach me to be THIS wonderfully evil? Read More

Brought to you by the letters X and O

• April 3, 2008

I have an affliction. I am a geek. A nerd. One of those social dysfuntionals that loves freshly printed circuits more than the soft caress of life itself. Once I spoke with a recruiter who was supposed to be helping me fill out a list of my interests. She said something to the effect of, “You don’t want people to think that after you go around at work for 8 hours that you go home and do more of the same. Read More

It's okay... I'm alive.

• March 30, 2008

Mostly alive. Not feeling great, but I’m still kicking. Pneumonia really takes a kick at the ol’ body. I’ve been struggling off and on with a cold since January. The pneumonia kicked in a little over a month ago and pretty much levelled me. The worst of it all was sleeping upright in a chair for three weeks. A recliner, sure, but I couldn’t recline at all lest the pressure in my chest send me into a wheezing fit. Read More