The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!Here’s a sporting event I’d really like to enter - too bad I’d have to go to Finland for the competition. It’s the World Mobile Phone Throwing Championship! Havent we all had a day when we’d like to see that cellphone airborne?

I wonder if I could start a Computer Throwing competition. There could be […]

* Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
I can’t help but wonder how many American’s knew that at the time. Of course, it does dawn on me that the name Heinz is very German in origin, so maybe this […]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently trying to learn how to make it impossible for someone with a laptop to park down the road from my house and use my internet connection and any shared resources I have on any of these computers.
Here’s a quick summary of what I’ve learned:

DO NOT use WEP […]

Ya know, the one thing I dislike more than SPAM email is SPAM snail-mail. Yesterday’s mail was a great example of what I mean. We were gifted with an ad for life insurance, an ad for custom pens, and a notice that my car is no longer under warranty.
First of all, if I could afford […]

We just got a call from our oldest daughter - the one who left for college last week.
It seems that, because some of her financial aid paperwork didn’t arrive here in the mail until the last minute, they’re taking a little long processing her loan. The phone call was, essentially, “I’m broke!” and the answer […]