The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve noticed an interesting trend on the local radio stations. The DJs are obviously not using their real names on the air. I can understand that’s a privacy thing. When I was a kid, the girl who lived next door […]

I almost fell out of my chair when StumbleUpon’s toolbar served up this page for me.
The Helios project, as I understand it based on 5 minutes worth of research, is a project to provide free computers to kids who would otherwise not be able to have them. In order to provide these computers at no […]

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 […]

You hear the funniest things if you just listen. Here are a couple of examples.

I find it amazing how people can change when you lose track of them.
I was logged in to my MySpace account this morning searching for people from my high school whom I might have known. I happened upon a couple. Gary, who could never decide between drawing comics and writing The Great American Novel is […]

I have to get this written down before I get doing something else and it escapes me.
I occasionally like to go looking around at toys I’d like to have but probably won’t be able to afford anytime in this lifetime.
This morning I saw an ad for one of those GPS thingies that tells you where […]

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 […]

Somewhere today I heard someone talking about going on “one of those Disney cruises” and I was like, “Huh? What? I thought Disney did movies. You sure you don’t mean that other company…the one with the Love Boat?”
Much to my surprise, though, somewhere off the coast of Florida there is a luxury cruise ship owned […]

Now that Daughter Number One is officially married, she and The Son-In-Law are really wanting their own place. There’s just not a whole lot of privacy when your “bed” is in someone else’s living room. To that end, a phone call was placed the other day in order to inquire about a 1-bedroom, 1-bath mobile […]