There is so much to say about today’s NRA statement in relation to the Sandy Hook shooting. But let us start with this. The NRA blames the shooting on a culture of violence. They call out video games (specific ones, I guess you know who your friends are now!), media, the government. It’s actually a […]
Category: Rants
Wherein I go off. Categorized so you can ignore it if you like.
I heard about the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, hours after it happened. I was flying East that day, and hadn’t checked in with the news. I don’t know anyone involved, but I have two boys in elementary school, one a six-year-old first grader. I have been sad, confused, and angry in turns, sometimes all at […]
Here is what is annoying about the lottery. If the two people who won yesterday had played the Powerball Simulator twice a week for the equivalent of 7,000 years (like I did yesterday), they would not have won (like I did not win). Then they would have said to themselves, “Self, them is some bad […]
Make it easier for me, Amazon!
Went to buy something at Amazon tonight, and decided they really need to let us add a nickname or notes to our payment methods. I’d like to call my payment methods “Golf card” and “Regular card” and “White card,” but instead all I get to distinguish my credit cards are the last four numbers, which […]
No more twitter here
I’m done. At least, I’m done with trying to include all my Twitticisms on this blog. You’ll just have to go to Twitter to get them (see the footer for directions). It was too… not easy, to keep them all here, and there, and display them nicely. So, screw it. But, here are all my […]
Dear Apple, do you hate my family?
Just “watched” Apple’s latest from their Worldwide Developers Conference, and they announced a lot of cool things, but they have left me, in the end, worried. In a nutshell, Apple hates me (us). Right now, we have one Mac, two iPhones and an iPad in the family (with another iPad on the way, we expect). […]
I was bitching this morning to my wife about the recent O’Donnell/Coons debate where she insisted the Constitution did not preclude the government from influencing religious preference, and about the conservative reaction to what she said (She’s right! It doesn’t actually say “separation of Church and State” in the Constitution!), and my seven year-old couldn’t […]
Dumb Challenge Questions
So, my place of employment (a quick Google search should clear up the mystery) has just implemented challenge questions for their new password retrieval system. Now, on top of auto-expiring our passwords every six months (Grrr!), we are required to know the answers to odd questions. This is becoming common practice everywhere, so I guess […]
The problem with Google
I do love me Google. A lot. I use it exclusively, and whenever I present to the hoi polloi on “Searching teh Intarwebs” I use Google to do it. But there is one thing they need to fix, between adding more one boxes and putting little arrows at the end of my customized search results. […]
Courtesy of US Airways
Today I am flying to Philadelphia for a brief weekend visit with my parents and a couple of my sisters. Or rather, I am trying to. Let me preface all of this with a warning so dire, you would be foolhardy to ignore it: fly not on US Airways. This morning, while I was relaxing […]