News: October 2006

A Rant on Working

31 Oct 2006 at 1:06pm <From the Cynicism / Rants and Work Departments> I'm going to try to keep this as generic as possible, as I don't want to lose my job. Yet. I work in an environment that requires me to interact with several different people on... read on »

Going Going, Back Back...

26 Oct 2006 at 2:03pm <From the Personal Life and Travel Departments> It's been a little while. I have a major release coming up on Friday here at work (what the hell's a release? shut up and forget about it. that's what.), so I've been relatively busy.... read on »

Strong Island Styles

16 Oct 2006 at 1:02pm <From the Culture, Personal Life and Style Departments> This weekend I went home to Long Island to celebrate Nap's birthday. I've completely run out of ideas of what to get him. The guy has everything he could possibly ask for, and develops hobbies... read on »

Cory Who?

12 Oct 2006 at 11:26am <From the Current Events, Cynicism / Rants, Media and Sports Departments> If you haven't yet heard about the atrocity that happened yesterday in New York, then you're either a deaf, dumb, blind, mute, or Cory Lidle's flight instructor. What? Did you cringe? Good - that was... read on »

Kids These Days

9 Oct 2006 at 2:39pm <From the Current Events, Cynicism / Rants and Media Departments> 9 Oct 2006 (Joplin, Missouri) 6 Oct 2006 (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 2 Oct 2006 (Paradise, Pennsylvania) 2 Oct 2006 (North Las Vegas, Nevada) 29 Sep 2006 (Cazenovia, Wisconsin) 27 Sep 2006 (Bailey, Colorado) 15 Sep... read on »

Putnam County Spelling Bee

6 Oct 2006 at 4:02pm <From the Culture, Food & Drinking and Personal Life Departments> As you may or may not have known, this past weekend Cara and I went to Manhattan for a good old-fashioned dinner-and-a-show date. Nap and Paula had given me hand-made coupons for "two tickets to... read on »

Gabbly

6 Oct 2006 at 9:42am <From the Web / Technology Departments> Yagid pointed me in the direction of yet another new, free, interesting utility that has recently hit the web: Gabbly. It allows you to add "gabbly.com/" in front of any URL to visit the URL... read on »

Brokeback Sweet

5 Oct 2006 at 10:24am <From the Culture, Humor (take a joke) and Personal Life Departments> Just a few minutes ago, Erik Sweet asked me whether or not I'd be interested in attending a play with him. Not surprisingly, this immediately set off numerous flags. When dealing with Erik Sweet, there... read on »

Bob's Discount Harassment

2 Oct 2006 at 12:52pm <From the Cynicism / Rants, Morons and Personal Life Departments> On Sunday I accompanied Cara to Bob's Discount Furniture in Southington, CT. If you've never heard of Bob's, you should consider yourself very lucky. His terrible marketing techniques (yet amazingly effective) feature himself as the... read on »

Sorry 'Bout the CAPTCHA

2 Oct 2006 at 12:14pm <From the Web / Technology Departments> I have unfortunately had to give in to something I'd been trying to avoid for a while now. You will now see the somewhat-popular image verification on the comments page. While this is kind of... read on »