The (Other) End of the Internet

The last stop on the information superhighway. All traffic must exit in 500 feet.

Archive for 2009/01


It just isn’t the same

Welcome back!I’m pretty sure that I’ve mentioned before that we don’t generally watch network television these days. Instead, we buy the DVD releases of shows from 20 or 30 years ago and give them to each other as Christmas gifts. That way, between the eight of us we can spend just about the whole year […]

Guess he does know what he’s talking about.

My brother has been reading quite a bit about promoting web sites and how to increase a web site’s traffic. Sometimes it seems like he’s learned a foreign language, because you can’t talk to him these days without hearing things like “SEO”, “conversion rate optimization“, “SERPS”, or “click-thru ratio”
I can’t really complain, though, because he’s […]

The Inauguration - One Man’s Thoughts

Today, for the first time in 232 years, America has a black man as President. Note that I said, “black man” and not “African-American”. First off, I think the phrase “African-American” is completely stupid. The way I see it, you can be African or you can be American. You cannot be both. Secondly, President Obama […]

The MRI has been scheduled

Wednesday is the big day. That’s the day I drive Daughter Number Three to Little Rock for a pre-surgery MRI on her back. The reason for the MRI is si that during surgery they will know exactly where her spinal cord is in all that mess.
They’ve also told us that after the MRI they’ll schedule […]

More silliness from the local news folks

The people who do the newscast at this end of the internet are so stuck on their proverbial treadmills - just getting the job done without any thought to what they’re doing - that I had to laugh out loud at their newscast tonight.
They did a report about the dangers of cold weather and the […]