Most people know that I live in India, and one of the advantages is the “exotic” animals you get to see elephants, camels, sacred cows, donkeys, buffalo, and of course monkeys ( Read more... )

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Stability |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Orderliness |||||||||||||| 60% Accommodation |||||||||| 36% Interdependence |||||||||||||||||| 76% Intellectual |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Mystical |||||||||||||||| 70% Artistic |||| 16% Religious || 10% Hedonism ( Read more... )

A soothing song to sing when your computer hangs up
(With apologies to Stevie Wonder)

The Control and Alt keys
Live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my puter keyboard
O, Lord where’s delete

Friends that know me well know I have two things I hate with a consuming passion; cheese which I am psychologically allergic to, and cats, which I am psychotically allergic to (and they make me sneeze ( Read more... )

During the years I have had an “experience” or two which I do enjoy illuminating in an animated manner for the enjoyment of friends. A few people that read this ranting from time to time have asked me to write some of them down, so periodically I will reach back into the dusty remnants of memory and recall a moment in time ( Read more... )

I am an eggs person when it comes to the fine art of breakfast, though I am told by others much more nutritionally attuned than I that a serving of cereal is like a crunchy, golden vitamin pill. Be that as it may, the humble bowl of cornflakes never has been high on my list of desirous morning comestibles ( Read more... )

I recently and quite accidentally stumbled across an article with the overly perplexing title “Institute of Tribology and Coatings gets $68,000 grant” being somewhat a student of the history behind words, I instantly curious as to the etymology behind this (to me) new word ( Read more... )

Scientists claim that animals can sense natural calamities before they happen, while there seems to be some circumstantial evidence to support this assertion, I do not believe it is actually the case ( Read more... )

They can redeem them for valuable merchandise such as refrigerators, television sets, and the occasional computer. However on the whole the people who set up the redemption centers do not like to offer computers to fish, as (like snakes) they tend not to have arms, which reduce the number of hands they are likely to have. Do not however think ( Read more... )