“Don’t know what to get Dad for Father’s Day?”
How about his very own town?
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
Ordering Checks, Revisited
On the topic of ordering checks… I called them back today, hoping to get some confirmation that I’d actually placed an order. After laboriously entering all of my information — again — the system again cheerfully told me that my last order was placed three years ago, and shipped the next day. Fortunately, it also …
“$45 Emergency Menu for 4 to 6”
This is an older posting that I just discovered. It sounds doable.
Sagging Pants: a Major Problem?
Yesterday I saw an article that said that the Dallas city council was considering banning “saggy pants.” Today I see that they’re not the only ones. I can fully sympathize with their moral outrage. At a gas station in Virginia, several years ago, I had the misfortune of seeing a brother whose pants were cut …
It’s a Jungle Out There
There’s an impression among even savvy Internet users that avoiding the seedier side of the ‘net — porn and pirated software sites, for instance — will protect you from most viruses, Trojan horse programs, and other malware. But while most web-borne malware is from such sites, even sites that should be completely trustworthy, like the …
“Pac-Man Skull”
Good Lord, they’ve found Pac-Man’s prehistoric ancestor! 😉
Spam, spam, spam, spammity spam, spam, spam…
Sometimes, on a slow day, I look at the spam that I get. Most of it is boring… the same-old same-old. “Best repl1ca w4tches!”, “cheap oem soft shipping //orldwide”, “Viagre Ciali Xanas Valiun have special discount, express ship to all countries”, “Don’t be the ‘little guy’ in the club”. Various phishing messages that wouldn’t fool …
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For Those With More Money Than Sense…
Got a few million burning a hole in your wallet? Here are a few suggestions for wasting it: A million-dollar ice cream cone (and you can’t even eat it!); two million dollar rims (what, they don’t even spin?); and a million-dollar laptop (it doesn’t say what speed it is, dammit).
Thief Left Holding the Bag
But you’ve got to admit, she has balls.
Perfect Desktop Background Pictures
I found a bunch of perfect desktop background images for my Linux machine today, via Boing Boing: pictures of milk droplets falling into coffee, taken with an extremely high-speed camera.