Category Archives: random

I don’t pay a lot of attention to the things that get us through our lives.  Take television, for example – I don’t see television as anything all that amazing, though there must have been a time when television stations … Continue reading →

Saw this on a desk at work and it made my mind boggle a bit.  I wonder if this is how left-handed people look at the world EVERY SINGLE DAY. OK, a little googling suggests that this isn’t actually a … Continue reading →

When I was a kid, up through about my late teens, I played an awful lot of pencil & paper RPGs.  It started with Dungeons & Dragons, of course.  A friend had the Basic Set – the “red box” that … Continue reading →

OK, I know that this is a cheap shot, that Amazon’s automated system has no way of knowing just how odd this particular recommendation is, and that it’s simply the result of someone buying these two things in combination. That … Continue reading →

CostCo and I have an understanding. Every month or so, they send me a book of coupons, which I forget about until the Monday after they’ve expired and then I say something like “damnit, I’m going to remember to use … Continue reading →

I was one of those kids, you know, the ones that cut articles out of the newspaper and kept them. I didn’t do this very long, so I didn’t actually wind up with a very large folder full of clippings, … Continue reading →

I had a three-fold coincidence today.  That is to say, I noticed that the hard drive in my Macbook was almost full, so I was lightly vexed,  I submitted my first timecard at work since getting a raise last week, … Continue reading →