Hey, just saying….
Archives for Random Rants
Just general belly-aching.
Friends of Irony
I seem to be getting a lot of interesting image galleries in my e-mail lately, and every now and then one of them strikes me as worth sharing. In that vein, here is a fun collection from the Friends of Irony:
Signs of Sanity
So unless you’ve been living in self-imposed exile you’re aware of the Stewart/Colbert rallies recently held in DC. Apart from the standard observation that it’s a sad commentary when we’re getting comedy from “real” news sources and sanity from comedians, one has to note that there were some damned funny signs displayed that day. Various [...]
Internet Election Coverage
I’ve been checking in on how things are going with today’s election now and then, visiting all the usual suspects, including the various social media venues. As the day has progressed, I started to detect something odd about the various comments left by readers–a certain commonality seemed to emerge. Hmm… Curious, I did some sleuthing, [...]
Stop Being Afraid!
I try to avoid getting political here, but sometimes I just gotta. I believe that if a huge subset of Americans bought into the philosophy of this poster, another huge subset of our politicians would suddenly be out of support and then out of a job. They survive by making you afraid and then by [...]
Consumer Watchdog’s Anti-Google Ad on YouTube
What do you think: over-the-top hype, or appropriate cautionary tale? None of the above? Extra points for asking, “What’s Google?”
I Don’t Understand Grocery Stores
My mission today: pick up some lemonade–not just any lemonade, I was armed with a pair of specific brands from which to choose. My arrival at the hub of all things that are wrong in the commercial world was uneventful: I scored a decent parking space, no one tried to run me over as I [...]
Cancer Sucks
No shit, right? Who doesn’t know someone it’s taken? It took a friend today, and the hurt’s still raw, and there’s nothing really to do about it but get over it. Eventually. Jerry was a great guy. The harder you broke his balls the better he liked you for it, and he had a million [...]
Beware of Theft via “ATM Traps”
I just heard about this today (and checked it out at Snopes), and it’s pretty bizarre. There’s a way to set an “ATM Trap” such that it captures your card, and then the thief does a bit of social engineering to get your PIN, only to recover the card a short time later and withdraw [...]
The more complicated things get…
First off, don’t get me wrong: I love my new Alienware laptop. It rocks in so many ways I haven’t found them all yet. Still, some things are just too damned fancy in my godlike opinion. For instance? Instead of clicky-button controls for things like volume control, CD ejection, media control (what? your laptop doesn’t [...]
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