Archive for the 'Rants' Category

A word of advice…

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Don’t ever go to the supermarket the evening before Thanksgiving. If you have some unmedicated dental surgery that you’ve been putting off, do that instead. You will have a better time. I did not have to buy any more than my usual amount today and, with the exception of a few baking […]

Have you tried the Turk?

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

So, there is a new website called Mechanical Turk associated with Amazon. This site will pay you (a pittance) for performing some minor task. Apparently, it is named after the famous hoax of a chess-playing “machine” that was really a guy shoved in a box. The program is promoted as being […]

Too Many Pills

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

We all take too many pills. I know this is not really an original thought, but… pills to be happier, pills to get to sleep, pills to wake up, pills for a better hard-on… When we’re done taking all of our pills, we give our kids pills. Kid won’t pay attention in […]

‘W’ and ID

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

So, W has come out in favor of teaching “intelligent design” (ID) in the science classroom. Now, I don’t have anything against teaching religion in schools as long it is offered as an elective course. Because lets not kid ourselves, intelligent design IS religion, not science. Here’s what Miriam-Webster has to say […]