The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The internet is a really amazing thing. I’ve met people over the internet whom I never would have known otherwise. Take my friend, Mary, for example. She lives in New Zealand and likes to joke around by sending me advertisements […]

I was just sitting here minding my own business, not bothering anybody, when all of a sudden, the theme from The Love Boat implanted itself in my brain.
Does anybody remember that show? I was an almost-teen when it premiered. I have to wonder if the crew of ships like that ever get bored with all […]

I know most people traditionally wait until the day after Thanksgiving to start their Christmas shopping (Yeah, right!), but at this end of the internet, even if the shopping itself doesn’t get started this early, the wondering what to buy for people starts around June.
Figuring out what to buy for my wife can be a […]

My daughter sent this to my wife the other day and, even though the woman specifically said “Moms” and not “parents”, I couldn’t stop laughing about it because not only have I heard myself saying almost everything she mentioned, but, if you change words like “ipod” to words that were more appropriate to the 1970s, […]

What would happen if Captain Piccard and the crew of the Enterprise-D met up with Darth Vader and The Death Star?
Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans have been arguing about this for literally decades.
An “enterprising” individual calling himself Borg359 has answered this question with the following video.

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I was out handing way too much money to America’s largest retailer yesterday and as I was leaving the store there was the unmistakable sound of a car alarm.
This is nothing new, actually. It seems to me there’s a car alarm going off in that parking lot about every couple of weeks. It’s commonplace enough […]

Why is it that when I ask a question, people insist on answering a different question, if they bother to answer at all?
I was reading a company’s message forum and saw a comment about a rule that was different from when I started working for this company. I asked when it had changed because if […]

I’ve heard about some utterly asinine court cases before, but this one takes the cake.
The Associated Press is suing news-aggregation site Moreover and its parent company VeriSign for copyright infringement for snippeting and linking to its news. This harkens back to the early days of the Internet when news aggregators were routinely legally hassled for […]

In this post I said that my wife got an email from thoof.com complaining about her blog posts not being written in third person.
I have since heard from the site owner of thoof.com and I’m going to assume (since I don’t have the email to refer back to any more) that he’s correct when he […]

A short time back I bought a package of 50 blank DVDs on ebay. The package I bought happened to include a 128 megabyte USB drive (or jump drive or thumb drive or whatever they call it at your end of the internet). I really understand why my daughter complains that her 256 meg USB […]