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Monty Python's Flying Circus is Magic
The waiter cleared his throat. “Well, there’s eggs and hay; eggs, daffodils and hay; eggs, muffins, daffodils, and hay; hay, daffodils, muffins, and hay; hay, hay, muffins, eggs, and hay; hay, hay, hay, daffodils, muffins, and hay; hay, hay, hay, hay, hay, hay, baked beans, hay, hay, hay and hay ( Read more... ) -
Annual Xmas Lights PSA
Those of you who put up Christmas decorations will undoubtedly be doing so in the next couple of weeks, if you haven't already. Before you string up those electric lights, please read the following public-service announcement.We're all familiar with the cute little UL symbol that appears on just about every electrical or electronic device we buy ( ( Read more... ) -
The power to "cloud" men's minds...
So. My old computer keyboard was getting kind of worn out, with the letters worn off some of the keycaps, and those mushy rubber-dome keyswitches getting less responsive as they tend to do when the rubber ages. Time to go get a new one ( Read more... ) -
"Come on , come on, listen to the money talk"
Right down the hall from my office, four otherwise sane(?) software engineers are having a very intense, passionate argument over tonight's estimated $600 million Mega Millions jackpot (or whatever it's up to now). The crux of the argument? One of them insists that it would be possible -- and rational! -- for someone with $175,711,536 at their ( Read more... ) -
Con report: Mephit Furmeet 2011
Wednesday [08/31]: Drove up from Austin to Ft. Worth on Wednesday evening after work, to visit Matt McCullar overnight for a bit before heading over to meet up with Richard "Greyfur" Brooks on Thursday morning. While there, I dropped off my Sony TC-580 open-reel deck so that he can transfer some old family recordings he came across; while the ( Read more... ) -
The Magical Misery Tour!
(Let me preface this by saying that frankly, I don't really care one way or another if Obama wants to do bus tours from now 'til Doomsday if he feels like it. I just penned this because Mitt Romney's zinger referring to it as "[Obama's] Magical Misery bus tour" put the idea in my head and it was too good to leave alone. Comments from humor- ( Read more... )
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