I finally figured out where to go on my vacation this year: From 2/16/09 - 2/23/09 I'll be in San Francisco. I was there for a day back in 2001 and it seemed a good choice ( Read more... )

WTF ( Read more... )

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This Onion article, published in Jan of 01, just keeps getting more and more prescient ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of getting a Kindle. I had considered the Sony Reader, but they had a relatively paltry library, which is not a problem with Amazon. Now, the bells and whistles are nice, but the main reason I'd get one is to stop accumulating physical books in my limited space. Also being able to word search a text would be very interesting ( Read more... )

Wooooooo! Honk! Honk! Woooooooooo! Honk! Honk!

I'm going to Las Vegas on Monday, I'll be there to Friday ( Read more... )

I actually gotten some time off in the middle of November, Nov 10-Nov 19. I find myself at a loss as to what to do. So I'm willing to take suggestions from the peanut gallery. Where should I go? What should I do? The only restriction, besides overly expensive, is that my passport expired and I haven't renewed it yet.

Fire Away.

Never drink an alcohol beverage whose sole description is color. Know the origins of what you drink, either you mixed, decanted, or ordered it yourself. All other paths lead to damnation. Also the drink should take priority over the apparatus that delivered it. A shot of "blue" is still a shot of "blue" even if delivered by an ice luge. Never ( Read more... )

Some of you might remember my post about Chart Reviews in August, if not scroll down (it's not like I've written War and Peace between now and then). For a while, I thought my mental health bureaucrat career was dead but it has been resurrected. And like most things that are resurrected it has changed for the worse, gruesome to behold and longing ( Read more... )