The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!The people who do the newscast at this end of the internet are so stuck on their proverbial treadmills - just getting the job done without any thought to what they’re doing - that I had to laugh out loud at their newscast tonight.
They did a report about the dangers of cold weather and […]

Once again, I’m a day late commenting about this, but that seems to be standard procedure these days.
Anywho…
I heard on the news last night that Circuit City is going to become the latest victim of this recession. That’s a shame. I’ve only shopped there one time, when I bought a 486 back when they were […]

The local news people did it again.
Last evening they ran that same tired old report they run every year explaining all the things you should do to avoid “busted pipes”. What drives me up the wall about this annual report is not the fact that it’s the same list that’s been hammered into our heads […]

I saw on the news last night that Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner, “forgot” to pay $34,000 in self-employment taxes from 2001-2004.
Ummm… How?
Seriously, how do you FORGET to pay $34,000 in taxes over a three year period, especially when the IRS is issuing the occasional reminder?
This sounds like something I heard Steve Martin […]

Daughter Number Two found this article with StumbleUpon and I just HAD to do what I could to help get the word out about this outrage.
Picture this: It’s 8PM, and you’re a mother seeing to it that the kids get bathed and ready for school in the morning when the circuit breaker trips and the […]

I’ve posted here before about some of the gross missuses of the English language which occur nightly on our local TV news, but the other night somebody flipped the “stupid button” into turbo mode.
For the last several months, KAIT has been going on about “The Big Switch” in February, when the government requires all […]

I was wandering around on snopes.com just now because I find that site a little bit addictive. I picked up a bit of trivia that is both interesting and slightly disgusting. It seems that around the beginning of the 20th century some companies were advertising diet pills that worked because the capsule actually contained a […]

I wasn’t feeling well last night so I went to bed really early and didn’t pay attention to the election returns. In the wee hours of this morning, my wife gave up on them and tried to get some sleep. Before settling in for the night, she told me a few things that made me […]

I was looking at CNN’s website this morning and when saw the headline listed above I had to check twice to make sure I read it right.
To sum up the story, located here, 33 year old Tremayne Durham of New York City ordered an $18,000 ice cream truck from an Oregon company and, when […]

It doesn’t seem possible to me that it’s been a week since my last post went up! I could make some smart remark about how time’s fun when you’re having flies (or something like that), but the truth is that I’ve just been busy doing other things.
A large part of what I’ve been doing is […]