Powdered Non Sequitur Man

Justin sent me a link to this sendup of life on the Internet help desk. It’s bloody hilarious. They’ve got more stuff here, too.

The wheel turns, does it not?

Whee. I passed a Microsoft exam today, which presumably means that I know a thing or two about Visual Basic. And it entitles me to summon THE VAST POWERS OF CERTIFICATION!
I still gotta learn Linux, though. (=

I’ve been looking into alternate keyboards.
The one I’ll probably wind up trying is a keyboard that’s hardware-switchable (you press a special key combination) between the QWERTY layout (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, look at the top row of letters on your keyboard) and the Dvorak layout (which I hear is a much [...]

I really must learn Linux.

In case you couldn’t tell, I’m a little bit pissed at the world this evening.

Oh, and it’s not just software patents that suck, either. Biotech is getting sillier every day.
Oh, and by the way, that Morningstar Farms product might just have genetically-modified soy in it.

I never would have thought that copyright law could make me cry.
Dmitry Sklyarov faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison if convicted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Apparently the charge of trafficking in a circumvention device seemed a little bit too flimsy, so now the lovely DOJ has added charges of conspiracy to [...]

I’m seriously considering getting rid of my cell phone — not as in, “I want to buy a new cell phone,” but as in “why am I enslaved to this fucking thing?” I make maybe one or two calls a week, the battery is always dead, and I’m almost never more than 5 miles [...]

Found on the inside of a bottlecap:
“He who throws mud only loses ground.”
– Fat Albert

I don’t remember hearing the phrase “zero tolerance” when I was still in high school. I took the diploma equivalency test and left midway through my junior year. Even at the time, there was little in school to hold my interest, and quite a lot to repel it. I only had one [...]

I went to Portland Community College yesterday evening, to take their placement tests, so I could take a Unix class, so I could escape the horrors of being a MS developer forever, so… well, never mind. Point being, I took the tests.
They let us peruse the math tests and choose the appropriate level, and [...]

Never mind The Society to Turn Wesley Crusher Into a Small Styrofoam Dodecahedron — here’s Wil Wheaton’s website!

I wonder how Moby refers to his willy?

My brain has been going to mush recently, and now it seems my hands may be following. I think I’ve been experiencing Symptoms again — something I’ve managed to avoid since my stint with tendinitis at the California Relay Service. It’s clearly time to get a hobby that involves one of those unpleasant [...]

Almost one full year ago now, my sweetie and I took a friend to see Teatro Zinzanni. That was one of the most entertaining and enjoyable experiences I had in the Bay Area. To paraphrase Ferris Bueller: if you have the means, I highly recommend catching the show.

Well, I won’t swear to it yet, but I think I may finally have a stable computer. I also have a relatively zippy one: I was browsing the computer game rack at the store and my computer has between double to quadruple even the highest ‘recommended’ system specifications I saw. It won’t [...]

My sweetie has been talking a little bit about her work in dealing with transgender and intersex issues. How does this relate to Visual Basic, you say? Glad you asked. In reading an exam prep book (it’s not very good, so I won’t mention its name), I ran across something like the [...]

Wow! A cell phone jammer! I want one!

Do your nasal passages ever get that ‘not-so-fresh feeling’? This product fulfils a need I didn’t even know I had — and that I’d just as soon forget, except that the pictures are so damn funny.