Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
For those who strongly dislike Microsoft’s latest offering and how it’s being crammed down everyone’s throats, I offer this article. The last few paragraphs say it all: What would it be like if a single piece of software were simultaneously afflicted with all the maladies listed above? It would surely be a gloomy prospect. To …
After all the major privacy blunders in the past few years, by both private corporations and government agencies, this tongue-in-cheek warning isn’t likely to raise any eyebrows at all.
As a software developer, I have occasionally been tempted to put… um, “colorful” language… in my source code and comments, especially about whatever vagaries of the OS API that I’ve just spent several days locating and working around. I generally manage to suppress the urge, because it’s rather embarrassing when you go to share or …
Spotted on Chris Linfoot’s site. Very interesting.
I answer a soft knock on the front door a few minutes ago, still in my houserobe because the recent blizzard has driven me into semi-hibernation, to find two soft-spoken and well-dressed men at the door. One is in his late twenties, the other maybe forty, and each carries a handful of literature and a …
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Courtesy of my sister, whose sick sense of humor matches the rest of our family: 1. If you’re choking on an ice cube simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat. Presto! The blockage will instantly remove itself. 2. Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold while you …
“42nd Avenue, of course.”
As the saying goes, you can find absolutely anything on the ‘net. I’d say that this site, featuring nothing but the sounds of cats purring and pictures and biographies of the “actors” (purr-tors?), pretty much proves it.
Baby may be feeling secure, but I’m feeling a bit creeped-out by them.
Why? Because the “traditional phrase ‘may be offensive to women’.” I agree with the (voluntarily-former) Santa trainee quoted there: it’s “political correctness gone mad.”