Michelle tried to use JCPenny.com to redeem a gift certificate. After plowing through the lousy navigation and non linked product images, the site makes her go completely through checkout before she can even see if the item is available. Unfortunately, she can’t get through checkout because the form field for “city” will not accept enough [...]
Some idiots with way too much time on their hands are protesting the next installment of The Lord of The Rings. Apparently any phrase containing the word tower, when preceeded by an adjective representitive of the number two, should be permantly banned from all languages. Even the languages spoke by elves and dwarves. Idiots.
Tom Petty rants on the music business, television, and morals. He sounds like a Republican running for office! Note – that is not meant as an insult. Most of what he says I agree with completely.
A story of three telecom workers – all professional engineering and project manager types, all unemployed, all at rock bottom. Its not a pretty story.
Reports are that MLB is considering making the Expos a one year tenant of Fenway Park. Something just seems not right about this. With Washington DC begging for a baseball team, and RFK stadium could be renovated to handle baseball fairly quickly, why would baseball put the Expos in Boston? Update 10/25: False alarm. It [...]
I’ve never seen the term homeschool used on Lilek’s blog, however I recognize these thoughts that he is putting on paper (so to speak). I was having exactly the same type of thoughts when Breck was 2 and 3 years old. Of course, I wasn’t writing them down, and even if I had, nobody would [...]
The Washington Post chose to NOT run this comic this past Sunday. I’m not sure what the problem was. I’m definately in the target group to offend with this comic, and I think its damn funny.
As another baseball season winds down, I’ve been thinking about the future of the game. Baseball is losing the hearts of the kids to soccer and a host of other activities. Why is that? Baseball flourished through the Depression, a couple of World Wars, the summer of Love, and it even did OK through the [...]
We went to a corn maze (a damn large one too) Saturday night. Doing one of those mazes at night, with the moon hidden by clouds, was quite fun. The only light in most of the maze was our flashlights. Average time through the maze is 2 hours. We did it in 57 minutes, with [...]
Eric S Raymond, Open Source advocate, libertarian, and strong defender of the 2nd Amendment, has written a manifesto – sort of a Declaration of Independence from the idiots on the left would further threaten our freedom by appeasing our ememies, or the idiots on the right that see this a great opportunity to eliminate those [...]
The plan sounds so simple. Get 20,000 freedom loving folks to move to one small state, then take over, turn it into a Libertarian mecca, and cut as many ties with the Feds as possible. Top states under consideration are NH, Deleware, and Alaska. Most people seem to think of the states as interchangable, but [...]
WorldNetDaily is reporting that the government is taking the sniper=terrorism threat more seriously than they are publicly acknowledging. They are allegedly afraid that open admission of terrorism in DC would throw us all into a panic. So, do I go to my beer tasting event or not tonight? I’m not worried about being shot. I [...]
A funny collection of Calvin’s Dad’s witty responses to some of his questions. Calvin: How come you know so much? Dad: It’s all in the book you get when you become a father. Hmm, I never got my copy of the book. Anybody know who I can complain to? Link from Mefi by way of [...]
A funny collection of Calvin’s Dad’s witty responses to some of his questions. Calvin: How come you know so much? Dad: It’s all in the book you get when you become a father. Hmm, I never got my copy of the book. Anybody know who I can complain to? Link from Mefi by way of [...]
I got 17/19 correct in this weeks college football pool. That’s against the spread. That is unheard of. I’ll probably never have a week like that again.