Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in advertising, food, oddities on Jun 6th, 2007
Take a packet of Lipton’s French Onion dry soup mix and knead it into a pound of ground beef. Form the beef into patties and cook on a charcoal grill. Serve on a plain flour roll with ketchup and one or two pickles. We used to make these when I was a kid. Refreshingly different, [...]
Posted in advertising, healthcare, oddities, youth on Jun 3rd, 2007
Why it is that many of the popular prescription antidepressants may increase the risk of suicide? I’m not a doctor, but if depression is a catalyst for suicidal tendencies then shouldn’t antidepressants reduce the risk of suicide? You’d think, but now the FDA is mandating suicide warnings be placed on the labels and in the [...]
Posted in advertising, culture, food, healthcare, in the news, oddities on Jun 2nd, 2007
Driving through Severna Park last week I noticed that the 7-11 on the corner of Benfield and Jumpers Hole had removed all references to Citgo in favor of a generic 7-11 logo. I suspected that they weren’t too keen on Hugo Chavez’s behavior. It turns out I was right, although late with the news as [...]
George Carlin had a monologue about the little things that bring us together. Little moments that we all experience and make us all the same. This probably belongs in ACW’s potty humor, but I witnessed two of those moments today in the men’s room. What follows were the events and my resulting thoughts during [...]
Posted in culture, gadgets, oddities, technology, wireless on Apr 12th, 2007
Leaving the grocery store yesterday, I walked past a women with long hair. She was loading groceries into her car’s trunk and talking as if she were in the middle of a conversation. She looked as me as I walked past and kept talking. Not to me, clearly.
A year or two ago I would have [...]
Posted in in the news, life in general, oddities on Mar 29th, 2007
Local Severna Park schools were put on lockdown for an hour yesterday while County police tracked down the suspect of a morning bank robbery. After a foot chase the bank robber decided to get into it with the County police, popping off a few rounds. Smart. A half dozen cops in pursuit, he continued shooting [...]
Posted in idiots, life in general, oddities on Mar 26th, 2007
I’ve been making a conscious effort to cut back on the profanity at work, on my blog, at crew. Impressionable minds don’t need to listen to my foul mouth and it doesn’t add a whole lot to the conversation. I also think it’s about time I came up with some new adjectives and adverbs to [...]
There are some areas where I fall seriously behind the times. I had never listened to a podcast before this evening. The one that I happened to listen to — despite behind a Halo-related podcast — happened to mention the recent server move. What were the odds of that? I think that I’m still [...]
Posted in complaints, food, idiots, oddities, the system on Feb 7th, 2007
I noticed one of most absurd things today while enjoying a HERSHEY’s Milk Chocolate bar with my lunch. There is text printed on the plastic wrapper instructing the user (or eater, I guess) how to open it! This is yet another sign that the system as we know it is going to hell. It’s right [...]
Posted in complaints, google, oddities, software, technology, troubleshooting, web sites on Jan 28th, 2007
I use Mailman to provide mailing list services to friends, family, and non-profit groups in addition to running a few administrative lists. Doing so has recently exposed a problem with Gmail’s mail delivery.
Pull up your carpet square kids. It’s story time!
A guy meets an attractive woman out at a bar. They’re talking but before anyone even attempts to close the deal, she tells him something. She doesn’t want to be wasting her time, so she’s going to need to see a copy of his W2.
Not that there [...]
Posted in advertising, oddities, privacy, television on Jan 15th, 2007
I recently received a promotional letter from Dish Network written entirely in Greek. Most everything on the envelope itself and the letter is typed out using the Greek alphabet, the exceptions being proper names such as “HBO,” “Showtime,” and “Cinemax.” You can’t tell someone’s first language by looking at their last name, so I’m a [...]
Posted in complaints, housing, oddities on Jan 10th, 2007
My annual Front Foot Benefit invoice arrived last week. For those unfamiliar, some of us Maryland peeps have to pay for the “construction & installation of water & sewer systems” that are connected to our homes. Do we pay the County? No. The State? No. I pay some company that paid the $7,200 up front [...]
Posted in culture, oddities, office, youth on Dec 17th, 2006
At my company’s holiday party last night, the husband of a coworker asked his wife why she was hugging her coworkers that evening. He asked whether she hugged them at work or whether it was just because everyone was dressed to kill. I had just shaken his hand in greeting a mere five minutes prior [...]
Posted in healthcare, oddities, web sites on Dec 8th, 2006
I went to the dentist today. I left work good and early so that I could come home and clean my teeth prior. I took time to floss, swish with Listerine, then brush the pearly whites. It’s silly, really… but I do this every time I go to the dentist. If I know I won’t [...]
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