I’m running XP Professional and recently defragmented my hard drive.
It had me thinking about Windows 98 that seemed to need defragmenting about every other day. Watching the defrag process run under Windows 98 was my introduction to meditation!
WTF
I do not have an explanation for this picture. I assume that some very twisted Photoshopper had way too much magic marker…Or there were large amounts of alcohol or banned substances involved.
Perhaps someone out there has a hypothesis for this image. If so please enlighten the rest of us.
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More Jack Handey
I can picture in my mind a world without War, a world without Hate. and I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.
A child’s face says it all. Especially the mouth part.
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we’d all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. Continue reading “More Jack Handey”
A Jack Handey Fable
I remember I was hammering on a fence in the backyard when Dad approached. He was carrying a letter or something in his hand, and he looked worried. I continued to hammer as he came toward me.
“Son,” he said, “why are you hammering on that fence? It already has plenty of nails in it.”
“Oh, I’m not using nails,” I replied. “I’m just hammering.” With that, I returned to my hammering. Continue reading “A Jack Handey Fable”
One kickass weekend
Occasionally we have those days that are so exceedingly memorable that they become milestones or at least touchstones in our lives.
I had one such day in November of 2000. I was at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium to watch OU defeat their hated rival Nebraska. They went on to win the National Championship that year. Immediately after that game I jumped in my vehicle and high-tailed it to Dallas to see Tina Turner and Joe Cocker in concert. It was Tina’s farewell concert tour and the lady still absolutely killed them.
I introduced my girlfriend to one of my all time favorite artists, Jimmy LaFave, Continue reading “One kickass weekend”
The Saga of Lugnut
You don’t still use a screen saver, do you?
By Don Willmott , Forecast Earth Correspondent
I’m happy that at this stage in my career I often find myself writing articles about energy-efficient ways to use computers, peripherals, gadgets, and consumer electronics. It makes me feel so, you know, virtuous.
Whenever I crank out a list of helpful hints, one of the first items I include is this obvious but often overlooked gem of advice: Kill your stupid screen saver. In the good old days of tube monitors, screen savers such as those unforgettable flying toasters were invented to prevent burn-in, a permanent shadow branded into the phosphors of your monitor by a static image of, say, a spreadsheet that you left on your screen all weekend. Continue reading “You don’t still use a screen saver, do you?”
Bad golfer vs. bad skydiver
What is the difference between a bad golfer and a bad skydiver?
A bad golfer goes, “Whack, DANG!”
A bad skydiver goes, “Dang, WHACK!”
Reverend Joe wipes out a waiter
Recently I was in Orange Beach, by gawd, Alabama on a fishing trip. After a nice and productive day of offshore fishing we decided to go to a nice restaurant for dinner, seafood of course. It was a fancy place complete with table clothes and starched napkins. Over to right of us were several tables pushed to together for what looked like a bachelorette party. There were about 30 or so pretty women in their early twenties sitting at the tables.
Before the food arrived I needed to go to the bathroom. As I was walking back I realized one of my table mates was behind me. The shortest route from the facilities to our table was by this bevy of beautiful southern belles. Continue reading “Reverend Joe wipes out a waiter”
Obama, The Messiah, I don’t think so
I’ve never voted for a Republican, and I am having a hard time getting excited about Obama. The media is fueling some of that lack of excitement. They love to show Obama with some sort of halo around his head. I do not believe him to be the Messiah or a saint.
I also got so tired of the depiction of Hillary as a bumpkin from Arkansas. She is not a bumpkin nor is she from Arkansas. If they were not doing that, they were painting her as a shrewish old woman.
Obviously, he has managed to woo the media and Clinton has managed to alienate them. Or maybe it is as Paul Krugman suggests, racism is declining, but not misogyny.
I really wonder if having news 24×7 on multiple medias is really doing us a service. Especially when they use such broad strokes.
Number 5 has been used in a multitude of news stories.
And now Michelle…
And the broad strokes to paint the Clintons as hillbillies. Well I know hillbillies and they are not hillbillies…to paraphrase someone.
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Credit: Pat Oliphant