2007 December

It’s been a few years since my last (near fatal) trip to K Mart. I remember thinking to myself that I usually had to purchase fast food to find employees this incompetent.
So I stopped going.
(to K Mart and fast food)
In the meantime, Sears bought K Mart. Or K Mart bought Sears. Or [...]

I am the unfortunate owner of a Netgear WGT624 wireless router.
Netgear needs to make a few slight alterations to the packaging to closer reflect reality.
NETGEAR WGT624 Wireless Router and Switch
Get blazing-fast downloads!
(assuming it’s not over 80 degrees inside or outside)
Achieve 108Mbps connections!
(with one specific wireless card only)
Ready to plug and play!
(if you want to do [...]

I asked some of my closest lunatics for some ideas of what to name this blog.
An early favorite was:
Pseudo-variant phase anomalies in a non-coherant Doppler shift
(thanks, Al)
The next entry went like this:
I think you should only write at night, which would make that “Nocturnal
Thermionic Emissions”
I’m going to guess that he was encouraging me.
Other names that [...]

It was SO COLD last night….
HOW COLD WAS IT?
It was so cold, my wife turned off TWO of the THREE fans in the bedroom.
You think I’m kidding?
She goes to bed hours before I do, but if I go to bed quietly at 2am and turn off a fan, a disembodied voice from beneath the blankets [...]

It was probably the minute puff of smoke.
It could have been the odor…
Maybe it was watching the screen compress to a tiny little blip then shut off that should have alerted me.
My computer had just died.
It’s a stiff.
Bereft of life, it rests in peace.
It had gone and joined the Choir Invisible.
If I hadn’t nailed it [...]

I am a Treo user.
If this categorizes me, so be it.
what’s a Treo?
It’s a smartphone.
Not in the sense that it’s smarter than your honor student - just that it does stuff that other phones don’t normally do.
No, it’s not an iPhone.
It does the majority of what that overpriced, overhyped, pretty phone does and has for [...]

I just heard the Kiss tune I’m supposed to be learning for an audition - Strutter.
It’s been *many* years since I heard a Kiss song, but the revulsion came right back like it was yesterday.
When you listen to the Back Door Boys or Madonna, you can at least count on production (inanities aside). If [...]

Over in Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf (sp) suspended the constitution, fired disagreeable supreme court justices, and has worked hard to stifle dissent, with the aid of the armed forces.
Who does he think he is - George Bush?

Bose has had this new product out for a while now and I finally saw it up close.
It’s very difficult to describe… picture a black pole about 5′ tall on a wide base. This is another one of their `revolutionary’ ideas to transform sound forever.
It was initially marketed to musicians as a p.a., then [...]

This blog post has been generated automatically, but I’ve decided that I can’t sit still for pre-generated content.
Years ago, some helpful soul said my writing style was just perfect for this new thing called blogging. Never one to listen to advice, I successfully managed to avoid listening to her. Here we are, years [...]