<PREFACE>I know Lemmings don’t really behave this way.</PREFACE> With my wife working weekends, and having to take care of the kids on my every day off, I don’t get much of a chance to go shopping, especially when holiday season arrives (Holiday season being our anniversary, on the 12th, and that pagan holiday that got … Read more
In my never-ending quest to make consumerism easy, I’ve joined the Amazon Shops program and added it to my site. I’m not done setting it up, but I’ve started off with some books and DVDs I’m currently reading/watching. Stay tuned as I add more items and new categories. The Lone Locust Shops Technorati Tags: Blog, … Read more
Team Droid => Building the iWreath for a Cyber Christmas John over at Team Droid got nominated to make our IS Division holiday party wreath. Never passing up an opportunity to try to get a blog entry, or perhaps even a digg, John documented the whole process. He did a great job, but we got … Read more
I won’t post a link to it because it’s obviously material that shouldn’t have been leaked out and I don’t condone that sort of activity; however, it is a fact, at least as of today, that about 4 minutes of the Runaway Bride (The upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special) are currently available on YouTube. I’m … Read more
BBC – Doctor Who News => Survival Coming to DVD April 2007’s Classic Series DVD will be Survival – the last regular adventure of the original TV series. In a year that already sees the release of The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva, Survival features Anthony Ainley’s final performance as the Doctor’s arch-nemesis. It … Read more
All day my 4 year old daughter has been coming into my room, asking if I’m hungry and then depositing these paper “chocolates†that she’s been making for me. At least she knows they’re not really for eating, because she hands them to me and says, “These are some chocolates for you, daddy. I made … Read more
I like to eat at Taco Bell sometimes so I can have a meaningless conversation with the packets of taco sauce. Where do I get a job writing this stuff?
Saw this on a window in the parking lot at Costco. I’d like to spend a few minutes poking fun at PETA, but they’re such a self-parody already, there’s nothing I can say to make them look worse than they already are. Technorati Tags: Blog, Rant
Do you think that Best Buy calls their cashiers “representatives†so they can get away with paying them less by making them think they’ve got a fancy title? These people never represent anything to me except the human interface to the cash register. Technorati Tags: Blog, Commentary
I went to Arby’s for lunch today and they’ve got this cool new automated cashier, where you can order your food. I would have tried it but the human cashiers were so desperate to take my order I didn’t get the chance. Guess that’s what happens when your future, unpaid replacement gets brought onto the … Read more