People That Don’t Call Back

You ever had one of those incidents where you don’t really want to call someone?  It can be the person, the time you have available, the circumstance, or the resolution – whatever you don’t really want to call.  I had this the other day.   So I receive this message via Myspace from a friend that


Testing Your Internet Connection To See If Your ISP Is Interfering

Image from here Everyone else is writing about network neutrality today (here, here, and here), so I’m jumping on the bandwagon.   Actually I meant ot write this last night, so since I’m slow and lazy the others beat me to the punch.   Late last night I saw the first posts about Google’s MeasurementLabs sneak across


The Freaking Mile Long Pier in Huron

Image from here The stupid mile long pier.    It’s located in Huron, Ohio and at the end of the pier is the Huron Lighthouse.   Growing up in Vermilion, Ohio there wasn’t much to do that we didn’t do on a regular basis.  One of the odd-ball things we did was go out to the mile


Chain Mail of The Day – The Proposal

Image from here Today’s e-mail come from one of the people that sends me political e-mails, I’ll let you read it before I comment. When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need to find ways to continue


Do You Like Food and Humor? Then Read Chomple.com!

I would use a better picture for Chomple.com, but Yod hasn’t made logos in easy to resize bites.   The above picture will have to do until he does.  Before we dig to far into this I will say while I enjoy Chomple.com Yod has been an “Internet Friend” for awhile.   He gained quite a following


My Flash Gordon Story

When I was four years old I really wanted to see Flash Gordon, even at that young age I was a sci-fi junkie.  Neither of my parents however were too keen on seeing this, I think the answer was always no.  I’m not sure why – I think Queen was still popular at the time.  


Sometimes I’m Too Much Geek – Or What I Want For Christmas

I am so sad.  I think this jacket is awesome.  Well it would be at least awesome to own, I’m not sure how much wearing it in public I would do.   I have an NES backpack with the same design I don’t really use.   I caught this from my Engadget RSS feed, I do agree