Category: General

Ideal Me: I want to do National Novel Writing Month this year. Real Me: There’s no way, man. IM: One of my goals last year was to write a novel. This is doable. I should do it. RM: That’s a fine goal. One of your other goals was to learn a second language. Why don’t…

Anyone know if there is a way to tell Mozilla (v 1.5 for Mac OS 10.2.8) not to open mailto links in Mozilla’s integrated mail client? It refuses to honor the mail client I have set to default by the system, and I can’t find anywhere in program to tell it. Since most of the…

Just in time for Halloween, I came home to a bathroom sink puking up the scariest, most vile concoction of water and black … well, let’s just call it stuff. Now, I’m a seasoned home owner. I’m no stranger to minor plumbing repairs. I’ve fixed a toilet (badly). I’ve installed a new garbage disposal (more…

My threes of readers will undoubtedly know that I will occasionally work out with that fine piece of “engineering” known as a bowflex. I was working out today — attempting to sculpt my doughy, clay like form into the attractively chiseled proportions of a Greek god or a Californian governor. Imagine my surprise when straining…

In the past day, I had somebody embedding web bugs in comments on my site — I guess to see how often their comment is read or that page i s loaded, and somebody spamming my comments — I guess because that page must be scoring high google marks on some keyword they want. Sigh…

Well, with less than half of the precincts reporting, it looks like at least 2 million people in my state have questionable judgment and are perfectly willing to subvert democracy. I know Davis is a clod, but he was a duly elected clod. This thing was obviously a mistake, and I fully expect everybody to…

I wish all antihistamine sellers would print the recommended dosage on the back of each of their little gel packs. I always seem to end up with little pills in my desk and no box to tell me whether I should take one or two. I took two. Hey, I’m an American. More is better.…

So, I was watching The Screensavers (I know, but what can I do? I’m just a big ol’ geek). Anyway, they did a segment on the Slimp3. I’ve looked at all those things, but never had any interest. Thing is — they have a software client that can be used without buying the hardware. Cool!!!!…

UNBELIEVABLE!! Bad VeriSign! Very, very bad. No Biscuit for you. </Geek Rant>

Turns out there are over 47 million people who make more than I do. Man, and I was feeling so good after balancing all of my accounts this weekend and seeing actual growth in my 401K plan after years of attrition. Well, on the bright site, there are close to 6 billion people making less…