The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!I still have trouble believing this isn’t somebody’s idea of a joke, but according to this article that a friend showed me, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will not accept a fax that is fed into the sender’s machine upside down.
Apparently, it’s too much trouble to either turn the page over or […]

I discovered this morning that a group calling themselves 4chan has declared today “YouTube Porn Day“. apparently, what they’ve been asking their people to do over the last several days is create porn videos with just a little bit of work-safe content and upload them to YouTube. Once uploaded, the owner is supposed to mark […]

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 […]

Does that title sound familiar? Ever seen that message before? We see it quite frequently, due to the fact that we live 90 miles from the nearest television station.
Last Christmas we all went in together and bought Mom a new television. We didn’t have the resources to go all-out and get an HDTV, but we […]

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 […]

I happened upon this video at a blog called I DON’T GIVE A BLEEP.
I’ve never had more than one or two occasions to stay in a hotel room, but after watching this, you can bet your bottom dollar that if I ever do again, I’ll be bringing (and cleaning) MY OWN drinking glass. What these […]

Now, here’s someone with no life and a really twisted sense of humor.
A man in Salem, Arkansas has been charged with vandalism after being caught on surveillance video putting Ding Dong treats into running clothes dryers at a laundromat.

The part that caught my attention is the location. I’m sure most people have never heard of […]

Last month we set up a web hosting account with Dreamhost. The plan we signed up for was $119.40/year, but because I found a coupon, we got the first year for $69.40.
Now, keeping in mind that $69 was paid last month, and they’ve been saying for the last three and a half or four weeks […]

Happy 2008! I trust you were all out too late ringing in the new year.
The routine at this end of the internet was the same as it has been for the last 7 years or so - the six of us gathered around the table around 7pm and started a game of Trivial Pursuit. […]

We had the new neighbors over for dinner this evening. They were delicious. (Just kidding. )
We got to know quite a bit about them. More than I wanted to know, in fact. We learned, for example, that he has a truly incredible appetite, that she has all the fashion sense of a bag lady, […]