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For some reason I've been sneezing ever since I got up this morning ( a bit over two hours ago ).

Can't be pollen, it's the middle of winter here, and as far as I know I haven't changed anything in my environment that would lead to sinus irritation.  But I've sure got it.

Packing extra handkerchiefs for work...

First Place:  "AUDI DU"  -- even if I did have to say it out loud before I got it.

Runner up:  "W8 4 F8"

This morning as I was loading the usual seasonal glut of packages onto my UPS trucks, I noticed a sticker on one of them that made me do a double-take.  It said: ------------------------------ "Open and display immediately.  Valentine's Day Promotional materials." ------------------------------
I suppose that in one sense it's only logical, ( Read more... )

Since I was lucky enough to unexpectedly stumble upon the perfect gift for my Dad in late October ( even at a great sale price, still by far the most expensive one I've ever bought for him, and I think for anyone ), and I don't really have any great ideas for my Mom, I was only shopping for myself today. Although my monochrome laser printer is ( Read more... )

By which I mean I've been spending way too much time this past week playing Plants vs. Zombies, a hilarious computer game in which you protect yourself from the zombie invasion by planting flowers on your lawn.  Put that simply it doesn't sound like much, but it's gotten me so hooked that I even went out and spent forty dollars on a so-called ( Read more... )

Another for the "what will they think of next" file:  at the Computex tech convention ECS computers showed off a "net-top" ( a desktop computer built with netbook components ) that is disguised as a Ming vase.

PC World magazine, Engadget, and Tom's Hardware all thought it was pretty cool, but though the couple of paragraphs I read in PC Advisor ( Read more... )

Special alert to norabombay :

For some unexplained reason, I thought of you when I read this story:

A man with a tattoo of Britney Spears' name on his arm or neck allegedly stole a Chihuahua with pink earrings from a South Florida gay bar. Brian Dortort, 48, said Thursday he has spent weeks searching for his 4-month-old pooch, named Hudson Hayward Hemingway. ( Read more... )

As someone who has been watching the series "Criminal Minds" since the beginning, I have to say that KFC's ad department might have wanted to put a little more thought into their latest ad campaign.  I understand that their intent was to strike back at all of the Subway ads that mock other fast food chains, but the slogan "Taste the un-sub side of ( Read more... )

According to Amazon, due to be released on DVD July 28.

I know there are those on my FL who would want to know.

That is all.