Posts Tagged: Things that Happened
Airzooka!
About a year and half ago, our CEO Dan James walked into our old office and started shooting us with balls of air. He had bought the incredible Airzooka, which fires a ball of compressed air out of a contraption that looks like a small plastic garbage pail with a handle and a plastic bag …
Wrestling Newspeak
A couple of days ago I was eating lunch with my mother at Cedar's Eatery. One of her friends came over and sat with us and somehow professional wrestling came up. While telling his story, this man (who is in his fifties) naturally referred to the WWE or World Wrestling Entertainment. • The …
The Chicken Noodle Network
I discovered two things this past weekend that are worth pointing out: • One. While playing Trivial Pursuit on Friday night¹, I discovered that CNN was once derided as the Chicken Noodle Network by other news organizations. • Two. While briefly watching CNN on Sunday, I discovered that it …
Where Should I be Pumping?
A news headline yesterday raised a question that's been nagging me for quite some time. Several news services reported on Tuesday that Exxon has been fined ten million dollars by Nigeria for spilling between 40,000 and 100,000 barrels of crude into a river there. A company spokesman responded that …
10,000 Pieces of Junk
I reached an exciting pinnacle in my battle against spam today as I received my ten thousandth junk email since I began using email filtering at the end of May. That's an average of about 55 pieces of junk mail per day, which isn't as bad as many people, but is still incredible. I nominate all …
Rinse Before Washing
I open my weblog with a story of woe and despair. Until a week ago I was the proud owner of beautifully small, make that tiny, digital camera. I bought a Minolta Dimage Xi three-megapixel camera about five months ago and took it with me everywhere. In its short tenure, the camera served me well …