No, seriously…

Check out this story about a guy named Herman Libshitz who couldn’t get the email address he wanted because of Verizon’s policy that email addresses and usernames not contain profanity.

You Choose: What is more stupid

Alright folks. I’ve been listening to “Wait, Wait: Don’t Tell Me” this morning, and I’ve narrowed down the dumb news stories of the week to two. Now you have to pick: Which is dumber:
A sales supervisor who used waterboarding to motivate his sales team (not a joke).
or
John McCain’s compaign trying to pass off Rachel Ray’s [...]

“A person’s a person, no matter how small”

I was listening to NPR this morning, and heard an interesting story. Apparently, the Dr. Seus book “Horton Hears a Who” has always been associated with the abortion debate. The premise of the book is that an elephant discovers that a whole world of “who’s” live on a dust speck that he discovers, so [...]

Cool stuff about… Mr. Rogers?

So, it’s no surprise that I’m a geek. And as such, I often listen to NPR.
And I enjoy it.
A lot.
So much so, that I actually download podcasts of some of my favorite shows in case I can’t catch them in my car, which is where I usually listen.
One show in particular is called Wait, Wait, [...]

Fun with spam

Friends, family, complete strangers — it is with all the humility that I can muster that I would like to announce that I have won the lottery! I have won 900,000 british pounds in a lottery in some foreign country that I’ve never heard of and never entered.
Just read this email that I just got:
[...]

Couple quick links

Been a busy, busy week, and I’m not keeping ye ol’ blog up as much as I would like to…
Here are a few links you may be interested in with all your Christmas free time…

A physicist explains that Santa basically has 34 microseconds to visit each house.
50 people were killed and 80 injured in a [...]