Daylight Saving Tricks
Now that we’ve returned to Standard Time, let us pause for my annual rant on Daylight Saving Time (DST). Calling the boiling point of water 100 instead of...
Category: rant
How Stupid is the Mass Media?
Check out the headline on this article: CNN Poll: Still no front-runner in the battle for the GOP nomination. Of course not, you stupid shit. They just started ...
Dear Amtrak: Learn How to Price Your Service
Apparently you neglected to read my last letter, but with the fast approach of National Train Day and the increase in oil prices making your services slightly m...
Dear Amtrak
You disappoint me. You don’t understand pricing. Or perhaps you simply have no experience of buying things with your own money. In any case, what are you ...
DirecTiVo, your return can not be too soon
Our DirecTiVo was dying. Every now and again, frequently at times, it stopped, hung. Maybe it waiting on a bad block on disk. Maybe it was just the heat. But th...
Comments Disabled Until the Internet Gets a Life
O you spammers, may the fleas of a thousand camels nest in your pubic hair.
Die, Spammer, Die!
Dear Spammers: I sincerely hope you all die a horrible death. Have a good day. Yours,
Like, but not totally unlike, Useful
IBM has a way of making software that looks like it would be really helpful and of great utility — if it didn’t totally suck. Stick to hardware, guy...
To Those of You Paging Out for On-Call Support
You’d better have a damn good reason for waking me up. Ask yourself this: “Is somebody dying?” No? Then it can wait until morning.
Against the Time Change
Really it’s not the shift in noon that I’m against — though there is a certain rightness to being able to look up at the sun and say, “a...
The Impact of the Daylight Saving Time Change on Traffic Accidents
It seems to me that accidents would increase during the transitional period surrounding the switch between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time. And apparentl...
Commenters
I tend to be very happy with reading websites through their syndicated feeds rather than directly. Recently, with all the political and economic ferment, I̵...
Maybe I should read things as fast as put them in the pile
Either I accidentally clicked the close box instead of the minimize box, or Google Chrome crashed a whole set of tabs. I suspect the former. Kudos to the idiot ...
Adobe, You Owe Me Money
I was wondering why my laptop was not idle when I wasn’t using it, because when I picked it up I burned my hand. Using the handy-dandy Task Manager, I saw...
You Made Your Bed, Now Lie in It
I read Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets” post a while back, in which he discusses Microsoft’s about-face with regards to Internet Explor...
Apple Makes Useless Design Decisions Too
Which jackass at Apple thought that it was more important for iCal to leave 50% of a day as white space and display ellipses than to display the entries that I&...
Lowering My Health Care Costs
If Mrs. Clinton, or Messrs. McCain or Obama would like to lower health care costs, then perhaps they could encourage Congress to start by requiring that all ins...
Can I Get a Real Person Here?
What does it take to get a real person on the phone these days? I don’t want to talk to the computer. I’m not talking to the computer. I did not buy...