So I was on an errand run this afternoon. Went to the bank. I pull up into a parking spot, and as I'm getting out of the car, a Jeep pulls up next to me and dislodges a pair of men speaking Spanish. I walk to the door of the bank moderately quickly 'cause I'm in a getting-shit-done mood. One of the guys sets a pace to close on me, and then ( Read more... )

WTF happened to Evite?

And *since when* does Verizon/Yahoo get to put up search splashes for unresolvable domain names?

Courtesy of CNN

Assistant Attorney General John Grossman called the light boards "bomblike" devices and said that if they had been explosive they could have damaged transportation infrastructure in the city
Uhh... Mr. Grossman... that's what anything that's explosive does. These items were not explosive. What the hell is the criteria for " ( Read more... )

If I pay a premium for your computers because "it just works," and I pay another premium to get your extended warrantee, and my computer starts having problems because you only replaced the part that exploded two years ago, and not the parts it exploded all over, then when my computer starts having hardware problems (which I have diagnosed to be ( Read more... )

Final Fantasy XII isn't satisfied with my lunch money. I think it wants me to get a second job. I broke down and bought the strategy guide-- my first time buying the guide before completing the game at least once. On my way to obtain the guide, I discovered that the manager of the GameStop in Bailey's Crossroads is apparently a giant freaking ( Read more... )

I'm still hoping that the closing of Alchemy in a week is a joke.

A few years ago, my Mom had a dump truck attempt to run her off the road because she flipped off its driver when he made a really asinine maneuver. She told me it was just too dangerous to flip people off anymore, because you never know what psychos are going to do ( Read more... )

A community I watch contained mention today that Photobucket's TOS just changed, and now includes this tidbit:
"In order for Photobucket.com to permit you to use the Services, you grant to Photobucket.com a perpetual, universal, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, copy, distribute, modify, print, display and otherwise exploit ( Read more... )

Dear $other_group_of_developers ( Read more... )

At lunch, my coworker was telling me about how her school had an Internet connection.

Her elementary school.

I feel old...