The IRS returned my the tax return, requesting corrections.

I forgot to sign it after printing it.

This evening our Comcast Cable Internet disappeared, and the problem (according to the modem's logs) was on their end. I call their generally-helpful tech support.

Tech: There doesn't seem to be an outage in your area... let me see if there are any notes on your account...
[1 minute later]
Tech: Oh, it appears that only 1% of the subscribers in ( Read more... )

Don't read Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles... here's what a concerned reader had to say:

This book I picked for school being interested in Mars. My dad suggested it and I took his word for it. Big time mistake. It was totally the kind of book you would think a corrupt, badmouth guy would write. Two thirds of the people mentioned in the book ( Read more... )

An email from my source of occasional entertainment and neverending monotony:

His name is Henry and he is an absolute pain in the fanny. I was taking an online exam the other night and he hit me on an instant message. I told him I could not talk and I had less than 30 minutes to complete the exam. For the next 35 minutes he kept clicking icons ( Read more... )