The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Once again, I’m a day late commenting about this, but that seems to be standard procedure these days.
Anywho…
I heard on the news last night that Circuit City is going to become the latest victim of this recession. That’s a shame. I’ve only shopped there one time, when I bought a 486 back when they were […]

The local news people did it again.
Last evening they ran that same tired old report they run every year explaining all the things you should do to avoid “busted pipes”. What drives me up the wall about this annual report is not the fact that it’s the same list that’s been hammered into our heads […]

Daughter Number Three has had a problem with her back for the last couple of years. When it wasn’t noticeably improved after seeing a chiropractor for a year, her general practitioner referred her to an orthopedic surgeon.
We knew she had scoliosis, and we knew it was more than just a mild case, but this […]

I saw on the news last night that Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner, “forgot” to pay $34,000 in self-employment taxes from 2001-2004.
Ummm… How?
Seriously, how do you FORGET to pay $34,000 in taxes over a three year period, especially when the IRS is issuing the occasional reminder?
This sounds like something I heard Steve Martin […]

Here are some useless facts I found and thought I’d pass along. For the record, if this is right then somebody’s using some of my toilet paper ration!
* A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
* A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
* An adult porcupine […]