For you young’uns, there was actually life before the internet. No, really. People communicated, without Faceyspaces or Tweetypages or any sort of instant messaging.
We had these bizarre local contraptions called bulletin boards. They were an online metaphor for an actual bulletin board. Oh, I’m not really doing well, am I?
It was a thing you hung [...]
Fort Meyers, Florida, resident Scott Janke had it all: a great life, a nice climate, a $105,000 per year job as a beach manager, and a beautiful wife.
Well, that is to say Mr. Janke had a great job. Town Council members called an emergency session and fired Scott without cause the other night.
What upset the [...]
Ok, if you’re expecting an homage to Elvis, you’re going to be seriously disappointed. But maybe not.
Born in 1942, springing from Seattle with a (left-handed) Stratocaster on his shoulder, James Allen (later James Marshall or Jimi) Hendrix revolutionized the electric guitar. He also reinvented, remolded, added, enhanced, melded, synthesized, altered, dismantled and set it alight.
Twenty [...]
There are a whole lot of online articles about people giving up television or pay television, and some went on to discover what is available online. We’ve all read them.
A few years back, I went on my own online tv search, paralleling an article. I put a few links aside for later, in case I [...]
I’m a corporate Dell customer. That is to say, my employer is a corporate Dell customer. We’re a Dell shop, which has many pluses and just a few minuses.
Way back when the Dell Mini series was announced, I decided to order one to check out. We also ordered a few Asus EEE-books. Oddly enough, the [...]
Didja ever just want to kill someone?
Or perhaps not want to kill them, but just wish they were dead?
Did you ever feel someone richly deserved death?
Fill us in via the comments, please.
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In the meantime, let me get you started with a few suggestions:
everybody who had anything to do with the Sonic drive-through commercials
most if not [...]
In what was referred to as a creative writing exercise in a Sussex school, students were led to believe that a ufo crashed and aliens abducted their teacher. The hoax included a crashed saucer, debris, police, and sirens.
Unfortunately the stunt backfired and the students, aged seven to eleven, were terrified. In turn, their parents, who [...]
Well, sort of.
According to a report published in the July 14th issue of Current Biology, your cat has less trouble training you than you do training him (or her).
Their argument is that when hungry, the cat mixes an annoying MEOW with a pleasant purr, which is difficult for us bipeds to ignore, so we feed [...]
Her Hillaryness spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations the other day. This is no surprise, as she’s a member.
The content, however, was most revealing.
She stated that she was glad that CFR had developed a Washington branch, so she didn’t have to go as far for her marching orders.
Her exact words:
“We get a lot of [...]
I understand that most people don’t remember things that happened before the age of five. I don’t remember much of anything.
But I do have this totally bizarre memory. Only recently did I realize I probably wasn’t making it up.
My family lived in Kentucky (say it isn’t so, lefty) for a number of years because of [...]
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