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Category Archives: Stupid stuff
Maddow Apostrophe-gate
17 CommentsI was watching The Rachel Maddow Show tonight and the segment about Blago came on. I could not believe what I was seeing! The horror, the carnage of typography on my screen. Here is what was shown: Notice that they … Continue reading
Before you hear it from anyone else…
1 CommentBefore it leaks all over the news, Barack Obama offered me the job of official White House dog a couple years back. I declined, so Bo is now doing it. And I did not serve as a bomb-sniffing dog in … Continue reading
Scenery
Leave a commentDuring the week of the start of Desert Storm, I was attending a week-long “Train the Trainer” workshop in Oldtown, Alexandria just down the road from Washington DC. There was a small sub group of us that sorta bonded together … Continue reading
This is the last time I’m doing this
Leave a commentI got my hair cut last week and as I was getting up from the chair, Jerry asked if six weeks out would be good. “God willing,” I said and he turned to me and asked, “Why do you always … Continue reading
Why the world needs human translators
1 CommentI had a wild, random thought as I was walking Charlie and Sallie this afternoon. What if I ran a sentence in English through Google Language and got another sentence in another language. Then, I ran that result back again … Continue reading
You’re still gonna need a horse to make that plough work
1 CommentThe year is 1837 and a farmer was all giddy about the new John Deere steel plough he just bought. It was a lot lighter than his old piece of crap iron plough. Since his back was starting to hurt … Continue reading
May all your ideas be weeds
6 CommentsTake a good look at the photo above. What do you see? Most of us see a dandelion, a vile weed that should be ripped up, poisoned and killed, stomped out and cursed at. And I did too until just … Continue reading