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vice wife?

This is a concept I’ve been working on ever since I got married.  It is explained thusly:
If the president is no longer able to perform his presidential duties, the vice president steps in and takes over.
Therefore, if the wife is no longer able to perform her wifely duties, the vice wife steps in and takes […]

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Consider Myself Alerted [Network Monitoring]

I’m really keen on network monitoring.  I have this thing about knowing how things are performing, if everything’s up to spec, and if there are any impending problems that are going to cause way more grief than anyone needs.
If you can picture this, we have four twenty-two inch monitors, set up two by two, as […]

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wii for the non wii enthusiast…

The closest I have been to a video game until this evening was when the guy sitting next to me at work talks about his Wii.  I’m old enough to remember when Pong first came out (and I wasn’t crazy about that either).
I was at my brother’s house tonight and he bought his son a […]

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the things you learn about in email…

Flash back to the early ’90s… I was ahead of the curve… my HR department at work informed me that they would cover my significant other if I signed a paper stating that she was my significant other.
Damn… who needs to ponder an offer like that, so I signed. Since we’re not […]

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virtually a virtual failure

It’s been another week of Mondays these past two days at work.
The people in charge of our Very Expensive Financial App have spent huge amounts of time running around, trying to figure out how to make the app work.
This is in addition to the fact that the only fellow who has a piece of a […]

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andy rooney vs rocky

I’m going to plow right in and embarrass myself by saying that I agree with Andy Rooney’s rant today.
Ok, stop laughing - at least until you hear what he was on about.
He was talking about what passes for art in our cities.  The monstrosities plopped right into our downtown areas, at great cost, that some […]

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no led zeppelin in guitar hero or rock band

The band, specifically Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, is not comfortable giving gaming companies access to the group’s master recordings — a necessary step in adding the band to any game.
You tell them, Jimmy!
P.S.  We’ll keep secret that it was ok for the Cadillac commercials though, ok?

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curves leaves working computer full of personal info in dumpster

Reader Adam writes in to let us know his relative found a working Dell computer in the dumpster at his office complex. It appeared to be in functional condition, so he took it home. Sure enough, it…
I ask you, is there any hope in the world?  It’s not like this is the first time this […]

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famous deaths

Larry Harmon, known as Bozo the Clown, passed today.
He will be remembered every time a woman leaves the dressing room with the latest fashion, asking how she looks.
Jesse Helms also left us.  Jesse was the consummate Old School Southern Senator, according to several obits.
Old School Southern Senator is polite-speak for ‘ancient racist fool who […]

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vote for sale? [and DB crash]

Some wise fellow in Minnesota put his vote up for sale on eBay.
Unfortunately there is a 100 year old state law against selling one’s vote in Minnesota.
The facts, as gleaned from local Fox news:

put on eBay starting at $10
will vote for anyone on the ballot, as directed by winner
eBay billing address is a frat house […]