My sister emailed me the following commentary that claims to be written by Jay Leno. A quick check at www.snopes.com shows that, while Jay Leno is responsible for the last sentence, everything before that was added by an unknown party sometime in 2005.
That’s a shame, really, because I wholeheartedly agree with this article and I […]
As I watch the price of gasoline go higher and higher, I keep wondering what sort of strange side effects will result from this situation. I can just see the day coming when some poor Joe doesn’t have the credit rating to buy a house but when the mortgage lenders see that he’s got a […]
Daughter Number Two doesn’t know it, but she gave me an idea the other day. She was talking about how she’d like to get an external hard drive for her laptop. This got me to thinking about how I’d like an extra drive for my laptop as well as my desktop machine. The idea she […]
I was trying to do a special-effect in a video, just to see if I could get it right. I was trying to do the “green screen” trick that almost all sci-fi movies use to make spaceships look like they’re actually in space.
The idea is you film your actor / space ship / whatever standing […]
About a week or so I sent my laptop to a guy in Washington State because it had a problem with the jack where the A/C adapter plugs in. It seems that Dell Laptops are famous for having the power jack break loose from the motherboard.
I couldn’t be happier with the job that “Dr. […]
When I ended part one of this story, Wendel the Tow Truck Guy had just dropped me at a motel that was apparently experiencing an identity crisis. When I climbed down out of his truck - no easy trick, since the floorboard was even with my hip as I stood next to the truck - […]
On Friday morning I left the house with the intention of going to Hot Springs to pick up Daughter Number Two for the weekend. What follows is an in-depth description of what a fiasco that adventure turned out to be.
I should preface this by saying that I do not own a car of my own. […]
The other day I happened upon a list of 30 random facts that was posted at PurpleSlinky.com and found a couple of these “facts” a little hard to believe.
I’m not going to reprint the whole list here. You can click the link above for the list.
“Fact” number one on their list says,
In a lifetime, an […]
I found this and thought I’d share:
Mr. Smith goes to see his manager in his Wilmington NC real estate office.
“Boss,” he says, “we’re doing some heavy housecleaning at home tomorrow, and my wife needs me to help with the attic and the garage, moving and hauling stuff.”
“We’re shorthanded, Smith,” the boss replies. “I can’t […]
Yesterday afternoon or so I got an email from my little sister (I’ll bet now that she’s a grandmother she must love it when I use that phrase!) that I thought I’d share here instead of forwarding it to 26,547 people.
I would normally give credit to either the photographer, or the website where the pictures […]
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