Category Archives: rants

Blue Laws Trampling My Freedom

Posted on 01/11/2010 by

Yesterday (Sunday) my family and I were at our local shopping wonderland, Cost Plus World Market. I love this place, because they sell products I can’t find anywhere else. My favorite is Bundaberg Ginger Beer (non-alcoholic), which is, without a … Continue reading →

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Let *Me* Decide What A Good Password Is!

Posted on 11/26/2008 by

I have had it with web sites that won’t let me put really secure passwords on my accounts. What do I mean by that? I mean sites that won’t allow anything other than letters and numbers in a password. WTF? … Continue reading →

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If It’s Part Of a Series, Tell Me!

Posted on 07/28/2008 by

I went to my local Barnes & Noble yesterday to pick up book 18 of the Aubrey–Maturin series, The Yellow Admiral. While there, I looked around just to see what else was available. I’m a sucker for great cover artwork and … Continue reading →

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Yahoo Groups And the Hard Bounce

Posted on 01/01/2008 by

I’ve been a member of several groups at Yahoo! Groups since before Yahoo bought eGroups. That’s quite a long time. At 06:30 this morning, I realized that I hadn’t seen any email from any of those groups for a while. … Continue reading →

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Chase Bank Forces Conversation With Salesweasel

Posted on 12/18/2007 by

I just tried to activate my two Chase bank credit cards and both times, even though it’s supposed to be a completely automated process, before I could do it I had to speak to a salesman. The recording as they … Continue reading →

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I Want To Buy a Pig And Name It Mohammed

Posted on 11/30/2007 by

If you haven’t heard about this, you should have. A British teacher working in Sudan (why on Earth, I don’t know) has been imprisoned for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Mohammed.” That’s right, she’s in jail for … Continue reading →

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Two Restaurants, Two Crappy Meals

Posted on 09/02/2007 by

We’ve been to two restaurants since Thursday night: the Big Joy Chinese place in Stone Mountain, GA and the local Red Robin and both served up crappy meals. The first was the Big Joy. No joy there for us. While … Continue reading →

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bOING bOING Morons

Posted on 03/24/2006 by

I swear I keep wondering to myself why I bother to read bOING bOING because they are nothing but a bunch of intellectually small, whiny liberals. Occasionally they post something cool, but most of the time they just whine about … Continue reading →

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Just Shoot Him, Already!

Posted on 05/27/2005 by

For the past 36 hours, a wanted murderer from Florida has been sitting on a construction crane, several hundred feet in the air, keeping police at bay, in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The august police force has completely shutdown … Continue reading →

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No RSS or Atom Feed? Why Not?

Posted on 03/08/2005 by

One of my biggest annoyances of late is finding an interesting/cool/useful blog, only to discover that they have neither an RSS feed nor an Atom feed. This annoys me because, as a rule, I don’t visit blogs by hand. In … Continue reading →

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