I love post-apocalyptic movies and books. I can easily imagine a desolate future, whether brought on by the (mostly) former boogeyman of nuclear holocaust or by environmental ruin.
But such visions of the future are depressing. No electricity. Civilization and communications break down. No hygiene. No law. No way to get food, except what you produce [...]
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For maybe the last month, I’ve kept my gmail inbox really really clean.
I started using filters to mark the bacn as read. I put labels on different things. The blog comments are marked in a different way too.
I can easily sort through my email in short order. And now it sometimes looks a little bare [...]
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I don’t watch a lot of movies in the theater. The ones I see really have to be worthwhile, or in some cases, worth my loyalty, but are probably not going to be good. (2009 new Star Trek movie, I am talking to you! And Clone Wars, I am not talking to you. Forget about [...]
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It used to be when I threatened to do my best spam, spam, spam voice ala the Monty Python skit, people would run in the streets, covering their ears. Milk would curdle. Children would cry. And I can’t even take proper credit for the screechy pepper-pot voices of Terry Jones and Graham Chapman, nor the [...]
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You ever wish you could rewind the last 15 seconds of your life? The last hour?
I got almost all the way back to work on my lunch break with two melty milkshakes. I stupidly placed them on the floor, in their provided cupholder, resolving to drive very carefully and slowly.
I stopped too abruptly at a [...]
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Excitement. I won’t say much about the laptop I helped pick out, because it’s not mine. I did spend some quality time with it this morning, though. While cleaning up all that bloatware free-trial garbage, a funny noise hit my ears.
Rain on the metal patio cover roof. Raining harder than the medium sprinkles we get [...]
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Every penny counts in these days of impossibly expensive gasoline. That’s why the latest gimmick at a gas station left me amused and awed at the audacious marketing.
I know better than to drive around and around town looking for the best deal, because you waste too much gas trying to find it. Instead, I know [...]
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