Category: General

For the second time in a couple of months we’ve been attacked by random acts of senior discounting.  Today, at Wendy’s after we ate, I looked at the receipt and it contained a 10% discount; and a month or so ago, we noticed that there was a discount on our garbage bill; which just showed…

The doctor, not normally a card player was invited to his friend Bruce’s house to play a little poker yesterday.  They gave me a lot of crap about winning a few hands until they took this picture at four minutes after midnight this morning with ~$1,215.00 in chips; but my luck didn’t hold and I…

I just want to thank all of you for your educational e-mails over the past year. I am totally screwed up now and have little chance of recovery.I no longer open a public bathroom door without using a paper towel or have them put lemon slices in my ice water without worrying about the bacteria…

What will be your legacy?

Today, the help desk decided to help us out.  To that end, they change some settings in active directory so that you couldn’t use tabs in Internet Explorer, and you couldn’t set your home page to what you wanted.As is my wont, I pitched a holy fit about screwing with the developer productivity and the…

Discover how many of Dickens’ novels were originally published, in serial form, at the Charles Dickens Digitization project at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  See an example of The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Public Radio International’s The World.

this dose of paranoia courtesy ZDNet Tech Update Today, Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:22:40 -0800