I'm wearing a collared shirt with a tie today because I'm doing some on-site consulting for work. This is a departure from the normal dress around here which usually consists of jeans and some kind of collared shirt. What I hate, though, is what everyone asks me when I'm dressed up like this and am [...]
Filed under: Rants, Work on August 8th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
… until we started watching it again this past weekend at Shauna's insistence. First off, there's Shannon. She's utterly useless (and no, the weak French translations of nonsense don't count) and spends her entire time whining, tanning (she wears at least three different swimsuits before the season is halfway done), and making all kinds of [...]
Filed under: Entertainment, Rants on August 5th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Competition is the basic building block of a healthy system of free enterprise. With it, we get better consumer choice, a wide variety of products and services and the chance for each of us to start our own enterprises. Without it, we get corrupt and moribund monopolies that do not respond to customer needs, inflate [...]
Filed under: Politics, Rants on November 30th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Every couple of weeks, I get FaceBook invitations landing in my mailbox. This is in addition to a bunch of e-mail notices from MySpace and some sporadic ones from LDSLinkup, LinkedIn and Friendster. Orkut doesn't bug me too much, but I'm not counting on that to last. I've got social networking fatigue in a bad [...]
Filed under: Geek, Rants on November 4th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
You Suck. I mean, seriously. Have you guys ever seen a measuring tape, a level or a square? Is it really that hard to ensure that cabinets hung next to each other are at the same height? Is it too much to ask that a piece of drywall not bow inwards at odd angles? Is [...]
Filed under: Homeownership, Rants on September 8th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
In a move seemingly designed to compete with Bob Murray's recent insensitivity, Richard M. Stallman, a founding figure of the free software movement, decided to end a short article about the recent earthquake in Peru with a bizarre nonsequitur paragraph attacking religious belief. With no warning whatsoever, he launches into the following: I read that [...]
Filed under: Geek, Politics, Rants on August 24th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
How long does it take legislators to figure out the complex issues surrounding the recent school district splits? More than one week of preparation and one day of actual special session apparently. About the only results produced from dragging legislators together for a day was a bunch of meetings, tabling the real grunt work until [...]
Filed under: Politics, Rants on August 23rd, 2007 | 6 Comments »
So… many more pieces of counter just spontaneously fell off . And then the counter turned into the giant scab on your arm that you just can't leave alone. I picked at it and picked at it… until this happened: I didn't really mean to do it. It just happened. In the midst of the [...]
Filed under: Homeownership, Life, Pictures, Rants on August 18th, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I was on business in the greater Houston area last week, a trip that wouldn't have been all that bad if not for the hovel of a hotel I had stayed in. I'm not exactly picky about hotels either. I'm generally okay with a bed, shower, high-speed Internet and some kind of breakfast provided in [...]
Filed under: Rants, Travel, Work on August 2nd, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Tonight as we were contemplating going out to see the new Pirates, a male friend of ours said that Keira Knightley would be way hot if only she had boobs. I ran across this picture a while back on one of my favorite sites, Go Fug Yourself , and it's pretty much haunted my dreams [...]
Filed under: Rants, Tender Lumplings on June 18th, 2007 | 16 Comments »
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