Month: December 2004

  • Waste Time

    My new Uncle Mark 2005 Gift Guide and Almanac is here – with tips on buying technology (and other stuff), for non-techies.The 25 weirdest things you can buy on amazon.com: (like 9,000 ladybugs)Bubble wrap, for wrapping those weird gifts.  Try manic mode!Awesome prank at the recent Harvard-Yale game:Finally, I have to thank Lisa Napoli who…

  • Justice

    Justice?  You get justice in the next world.  In this world you have the law.William Gaddis

  • PMS

    Do you know why they call it “PMS“?  Because “Mad Cow Disease” was taken.Unknown, presumed deceased

  • Rules For Jewish Living

    For those of you who are Jewish, you can relate.  For those of you who would either like to convert, or to understand us better, I have enclosed Aunt Selma’s 27 rules for Jewish Living…Never take a front-row seat at a bris.If you can’t say something nice, say it in Yiddish.The High Holidays have nothing…

  • God is

    When people are loving, brave, truthful, charitable, God is present.Harold KushnerAnd at all other times, God is in the restroom?

  • Twenty IT blunders that you should avoid

    InfoWorld’s Chad Dickerson gathered responses from a bulletin set up for IT managers and vendors asking them for the most common mistakes they ve made and then distilled them down into a list of 20 IT blunders that you should avoid.  The lessons learned from these tales from the trenches touch on a wide array…

  • Problems

    The chief cause of problems is solutions.Eric Sevareid