Aqua Teen Hunger Farce Prompts New Terror Levels
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Conference calls
I had my first four-continent conference call this week. The morning started like this: 4:03 (GMT-8): After a few hours’ sleep, I wake up, worried about missing the call. The giant red numbers on the alarm clock scream at me “You have two hours. Go back to sleep.” I obeyed… 4:14: For a few minutes…
My arms aren’t long enough
Because I’ve been blessed with good vision, visiting the eye doctor hasn’t been a high priority. However, lately I’ve become more aware that the zone of focus for close objects is now approaching the limits of my arm length. Since I had a little money leftover from the pre-tax medical savings account, and my calendar
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Games
I played a lot of board and card games this weekend. Friday night was “Clue Mysteries.” Saturday evening: Trhyme. Sunday: Go Bananas. Today, aMAZEing Labyrinth, Trouble and Uno. The first three games suffer from fomplicated rules. Clue Mysteries is essentially a respinning of the venerable Clue game. They’ve added fifty pre-canned scenarios, more of the
Private or public?
There was no power at the office this morning because a transformer blew. Or, maybe, its dilithium crystals suffered a tachyon inversion. Or, whatever. As several of us gathered at the Starbucks #2 across the street to enjoy our liquid breakfasts, the subject of personal web sites (and their subjects) came up.
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No customer data lost!
This is an excerpt from this morning’s Wall Street Journal. Comments in square brackets are mine. A [company] laptop containing the names and Social Security numbers of [an equivalent to the population of Miami, FL] workers and retirees has been stolen, putting the employees at risk for identity theft and credit-card fraud. The theft was
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Search engine misoptimization
Did you mean Ozzy Osbourne’s “(Peppermint) Bark at the Moon”? I was online last night, hoping to find a very specific Christmas gift for someone. Google offered several “sponsored links.” Companies pay Google a mystery amount for placement when someone searches for this term. Bid more, rank higher. It’s consumer capitalism at its finest, and
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Address labels
For the last nine years, my insurance agent’s computer has sent me address labels as part of her (slow) drip marketing. For most of those years, the address labels I’ve received have been printed in a format like this: CARSON, JAMES MIDDLENAME, SUFFIX 1 JIM ST SUITE: POTATO JIMTOWN, WA 980061234 There are at least