Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in housing on Dec 31st, 2005
When you walk through the house you’re going to buy, you’ll take notice of all sorts of minor problems. Make sure you can live with them, taking into account the possibility that they won’t ever get fixed.
Posted in culture, gadgets, technology on Dec 31st, 2005
My primary phone is a Motorola StarTAC (ST7868W). This fact gets me the mocking admiration of my peers.
“That phone is so old,” most will say with disdain. So what’s wrong with old?
Posted in conspiracies, culture, television on Dec 30th, 2005
I think Dick Wolf and his cronies at TNT have it in for me.
Dick Wolf created Law & Order. I’m not a huge fan of the original series. I can take it or leave it. The successors are a different story. I’ve got a serious problem. I can’t figure out which series I prefer, and [...]
Posted in office on Dec 26th, 2005
Being a “preemptive dick” is a necessary skill for all system administrators, engineers, and technology workers. Alas, Google’s returns on the subject don’t quite capture it. Most technology workers wear multiple hats: the preemptive dick should be one of them.
Posted in idiots on Dec 25th, 2005
The “Verbatim” column in Time never ceases to provide absurd quotations from celebrities. Martha Stewart and Britney Spears provide the latest bits for me to mock.
Posted in culture on Dec 16th, 2005
In a quirky moment I discovered two facts. Not only is Fargo a real place, the accents are real too.
Hip-hop music isn’t all bad. Despite how bad the lyrics are, we still listen. It hasn’t turned us into thugs yet. It must be the beats… or is it?
Posted in idiots, legal rights, money on Dec 11th, 2005
TurnItIn is a bitch of a company. Until they pay me licensing fees for my intellectual property, I refuse to sit back and be robbed.
Snow still inspires wonder and amazement, even in adults. After a four year stint in upstate New York I came to realize how little Maryland knows about snow.
Posted in conspiracies on Dec 6th, 2005
It’s plausible that the makers of razors have been secretly coordinating their product development with the makers of shaving cream. With personal hygiene industry being a multi-billion dollar industry, it is no small wonder that those sneaky shaving engineers have got it in for you.
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