Summer is the peak of activity for firefighters, the 4th of July being no exception, and I thought I’d do my part to keep the local fire brigade prepared and on their toes.
I made my first-ever 311 call.
We rented three movies from Blockbuster last night. Right after Snow Dogs and just before Monster’s Ball, my [...]
Yesterday, I told you about the hapless (hopeless!) eBay shopper who purchased a cheap, crappy pin. Remember, the seller stated “THIS IS A STERLING SILVER PIN” and “THE MIDDLE IS IVORY”. As promised, what follows is the series of email justifications for the fraud sent by the seller after the auction. I corrected a few [...]
If you know what to look for, you can find some really interesting facts on the Internet:
The top search term used to find the Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science website in October 2001 was “suicide”.
If I were to visit Professor David Gosman’s CFD research group at the Thermofluids section of Department [...]
Whew! Coming off of that last one, I really need a lighter topic! Oh, look! I found another funny eBay auction. What? Are you saying I spend too much time there? Hah! *sound of me slinking away sheepishly*
HERE IT IS FOLKS - IT’S ART DECO - IT’S CHINESE
IT’S THE CHEAP CRAPPY PIN!
This is a pin [...]
I spied a new search term that was recently used to locate my website: “maid of honor all best friends are male”.
It is gratifying to know that there are others with the same problem that I have historically had, namely that they relate better to members of the opposite sex. In my case, it’s been [...]
Last night’s Mole II episode featured Heather “greasing the gnome” and everyone on the show was sniggering about it, especially the personable former news correspondent Anderson Cooper. Frankly, I was, too! I asked around the room and at work the next day if “greasing the gnome” was a known euphemism for anything. Although I had [...]
Bonfante Gardens should hire this guy to replace their existing marketing department. I mean, whoever dreamt up the “Bonfante is Excellenté” slogan really doesn’t deserve a job. The winning bid on this memorable auction was $43.27.
Polk Audio Computer Speakers - Man, they suck!
These are some truly horrible Polk multimedia speakers. They came with an HP [...]
Well, since I covered a few computer stupidities, I guess I should give equal space to software stupidities…
Microsoft Word (somewhere around 1999) - “Word cannot edit the unknown.”
If you typed in ‘God’ at the prompt on an ICL mainframe running the VME operating system, and assuming an appropriately named program was not installed, you’d receive [...]
Sean and I went for a flight out of Reid-Hillview Airport today. We headed south towards Bonfante Gardens, a financially suffering family theme park with the terrible marketing department that came up with “Bonfante is Excellente” slogan.
After circling it, we headed further south to come around to the back of Watsonville, heading northward along the [...]
We almost lost both kids tonight.
My wife, Kim, and our daughter, Cortney, were in the car on their way to a dance rehearsal at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts. The light was green for the left turn onto Highway 87 from Almaden Expressway. It’s a two-lane left turn and my wife was driving [...]
