Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

Employment Woes

Wednes­day morn­ing, my super­vi­sor pulled me aside to tell me since man­age­ment wants to go into beta just before I take 2 days of vaca­tion. And since one of those vaca­tion days con­flicts with a week long Microsoft train­ing course I was signed up for they are pulling me out of the class. I wasn’t […]

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Cellphones suck!

I con­fess. I’m a technophile. I like read­ing about new tech­nolo­gies and gad­gets. Even bet­ter, I like own­ing new tech­nolo­gies and gad­gets. And yet, I don’t have a cell­phone of my own. I bought one for my wife but that was only because she was doing a lot of dri­ving out into the boonies of […]

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Unflippin’ believeable!

So last night, the wife was asleep. The cat was on the couch. I was sit­ting at the com­puter going through my email, read­ing a few news web­sites. Since the wife had left the bed­room door open, I closed the door into the com­puter room to keep the lights from both­er­ing her. Then about 10:00, 10:30 […]

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Kansas rejects Science

Kansas edu­ca­tion board down­plays evo­lu­tion Risk­ing the kind of nation­wide ridicule it faced six years ago, the Kansas Board of Edu­ca­tion approved new public-school sci­ence stan­dards Tues­day that cast doubt on the the­ory of evo­lu­tion. I don’t know why I feel some­what sur­prised by this, but I am. I sup­pose, like many peo­ple, I expected […]

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Dear Mr. S. Bot

Dear Mr. S. Bot, Mr. S. Bot, do you mind if I call you Spam? No? Good. I thought I would take a moment to let you know this blog uses com­ment mod­er­a­tion to pre­vent you from ever appear­ing on its pages. Addi­tion­ally, I use a vari­ety of plu­g­ins to pre­vent you from even show­ing up […]

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