The (Other) End of the Internet

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 separate […]

* 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 […]

I just had a sudden realization. I’ve done a lot of complaining here about the heat and how it affects it affects this heart condition I have. It dawned on me just now that things could actually be worse. I remember about 20 years ago I had a friend who got himself some Phoenix real […]

I had a bit of a fright the other day. I was looking around the internet trying to learn about wireless network security when I happened upon an article detailing “How To Crack 128-bit Wireless Networks In 60 Seconds“. I’m not posting that link as a tutorial on how to steal your neighbor’s internet account, […]

I had to go pick up my oldest kid from school for the weekend. This entails driving in “the city”. Given that I grew up and, therefore, learned to drive in the city, this shouldn’t be a big deal, right? Wrong. Eleven years living in a place where most of my “neighbors” actually “Neigh” has […]

Honestly, I’m surprised someone didn’t come up with this years ago.
You’re in the store trying on jeans, but you didn’t bring a friend to tell you how they look from behind. Problem solved!

It’s been another one of THOSE days.
To start with, let’s talk about getting my daughter off to college. Someone’s gotta pay for that. The good folkss in the financial aid office got her all the grants and scholorships they could, and she came up a few thousand dollars short. Their suggestion was for her parents […]