I am installing drivers on my laptop. I don’t think I have done this in a few years.

When I installed Ubuntu last weekend I found that the SDHC card reader I had been using no longer worked. I try to use generic stuff when I can but unfortunately the reader that I paid $2 for on eBay was not up to the job. So I found a [...]

In a society of disarmed victims, help is always a phone call away. Assuming you have a phone. Assuming you are still alive and can use it.

The local bar was so sure that its bartender was the strongest man around that they had a standing $1000 bet. The bartender would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and hand the lemon to a patron. Anyone who could squeeze one more drop of [...]

Another blissfully unaware person set off a terrorist stinkbomb (burnt popcorn) in the microwave down the hall which is located directly under the air vent.

Whenever you hear someone say “well it’s not wrong when we’re doing it,” it’s even more wrong.

Before signing up for something I am going to look the site over to make sure there is a clear way to close the account if I decide to. I get tired of having to email customer service drones and dealing with the retention department.

A writer to Dear Abby a couple of months ago says that thong underwear is “sinful.” Now opinions on taste and modesty are all over the place, but at a time when a financial drain hole has opened up in the middle of the country, do we really need to [...]

You are on the bus when you suddenly realize…you need to fart. The music is really loud, so you time your farts with the beat. After a couple of songs, you start to feel better as you approach your stop. As you are leaving the bus, people are really staring [...]

I installed Thunderbird and downloaded a bazillion emails from gmail. A lot of stuff that I do read got labeled “Junk” so I am turning that off but deleting a lot of the messages. I am running Pidgin for chat and Thunderbird for email so I don’t have to have [...]