NaNoWriMo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month, is a crazy event that happens every November. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel during the month. This was the ten year anniversary of the event, though it’s the first year I heard about it.
I decided to participate this year because I’ve been thinking [...]
…IKEA is the only place smart enough to put four casters on shopping carts instead of two? Being able to slide your cart sideways (and spin it in a circle, and push it forward at a 45 degree angle) is awesome! You’d think someone else would have figured this out by now, but [...]
So, I’ve scoffed at all the reports of Xbox 360 failures. I mean, ours has worked perfectly for over a year, surely we couldn’t be the exception? Well, it turns out, I scoffed prematurely. We, indeed, are not the exception, as we have now been graced with the red rings of death.
Due [...]
Transferring my number to T-Mobile two years ago from Nextel took five minutes in store and the T-Mobile guy took care of everything. Not so with AT&T. I’ve been to three stores and called two 800 customer service numbers all to no avail. I’ve gotten five different answers and no solution yet. [...]
…you actually want to talk to a person in a reasonable (less than 20 minutes) amount of time. Or you want to make changes to your account, because apparently their system is down… until next Sunday.
That’s right, you can’t make any changes for the next four days. In fact, they can’t even tell [...]
Through a series of unfortunate events, my mom ended up in the emergency room several weeks ago. While the doctors were doing an MRI to check for internal bleeding, they found a suspicious growth in her liver the size of a grapefruit. It turns out that it is cancer.
After several rounds of testing [...]
It’s that time of the year and Penny Arcade has once again kicked off it’s Child’s Play charity drive. Over the last three years, the charity has raised over one million dollars in donations, toys, books, and games for children’s hospitals around the country.
Even if you can only afford a couple dollars for a [...]
Since you never can be quite sure who reads what these days, I’ll skip the specifics and post a general guide for employers who want to disgruntle their employees. This is a reflection of my personal views and does not reflect the views of anyone/anything else.
For the sake of clarity, the employee in the [...]
