Category: General

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 them myself. You can go ahead and eat them if you want to, but don’t give them to James ’cause they’re just paper and he’d die.”

I’m not sure if I should be touched that she’s genuinely concerned for her little brother’s welfare or worried that she doesn’t care if I eat these apparently fatal chocolates.

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.

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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.

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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 jobsite: Worker Motivation

Unfortunately, that’s not a good picture, but you can see that the woman in line is completely ignoring the friendly, convenient robot.

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Syfyportal.com => Capt. Jack Returns to ‘Doctor Who’

SyFy Portal is reporting in an exclusive interview with John Barrowman that Capt. Jack will be appearing in David Tennant’s second season of Doctor Who.

According to Barrowman:

“I will be in [season] three of ‘Doctor Who,’” he said excitedly. “I will be in the last three episodes of four episodes, and the scripts are being written as we speak because I just got a text from Russell [T. Davies] telling me that he’s finishing the script that Jack returns to ‘Doctor Who.’”

Well now that is good news.

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At least, I think it is foreign… it is in English…

New Get A Mac ads for the holidays have been posted at Apple.

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Decided I wanted to try out a different theme for my page. Finally ran across someone using the exact same WordPress theme the other day and it was rather creepy.

Tell me what you think. I’m still tweaking it to my liking.

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I’m not normally one for the whole “Black Friday” shopping thing, but for curiosity’s sake, I wanted to see how my local Apple store (Phoenix – Biltmore) was doing and, perhaps, they’d have some insane unpublicized deal like an iMac for $99 or a new MacBook for $199.

Alas, there were no insane deals, but they did appear to be quite busy – at least with people browsing – and they had the JBL On Stage Micro iPod speakers on sale, so I decided to pick one up.

It’s a good thing I didn’t want two, because I got the last one they had.

It’s really small, and sits nicely on my desk. It uses the Universal Dock inserts, so I was able to use the custom one that came with my iPod case. In addition to be powered speakers (both AC and batteries), it can also act as a Universal Dock, and since the iPod sits up at a slight angle, it’s good for viewing videos. I also has a small remote (about the size of the MacBook’s FrontRow remote) which, although it mimics all the normal iPod functionality, does so in a non-standard way which is a little awkward.

Best of all, though, it sounds great. Much better than I was expecting.

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