Well this is going to be short but I just wanted to rant a bit about how cable companies in general always seem to give you the shaft.  My particular story goes like this.  I bought an HD TV a year ago.  I immediately wanted the DVR to go with it.  Worked out great, all except my bill ended up going up 50 bucks a month.  I was able to eat that for a year but now I need to scale back.     I decided to return the DVR and just...

    Oh, how I hate my fellow man.  Well, sometimes anyway.  Doing phone support all day can sure make a man jaded when it comes to having any kind of confidence that there is actually intelligent life on this planet.  I have a wall poster in my office that has several clever saying regarding technical support truths, but one in particular kind of sums up all the others.      “Can you help me with this” usually means...

Dirty Little Matt is sitting in the back of math class, obviously not paying any attention, when the teacher calls his name. “Yeah teach?” he replies. “If there are three ducks on a fence and you shoot one of them with a shotgun, how many are left?” asks the teacher. Matt answers “Well, teach, if I shoot one of them with a shotgun, the loud noise is gonna make them all fly off.” “No, Matt, there...

      Today I would like to rant a bit about the overused term BASICALLY.  Seems like everyone from late night talk show hosts to politicians uses the term basically as a crutch or a filler word.  They need to STOP NOW!     We have a beautiful language.  The English language has thousands of words that roll off ones tongue with grace and fluidity.  I basically want everyone to stop murdering the language.  Basically this is our...

Tomorrow is my birthday.  I am not a big believer in things either lucky or unlucky so the fact that it falls on Friday and is the 13th day of the month really doesn’t bother me.  On the contrary it sort of excites me because I love to see people’s reactions when I try to have birthday celebrations on a Friday the 13th. This year had no less than THREE Friday the 13th’s in it.       I looked it up and there are several possible...

     I like to try and keep this blog firmly in the realm of Geekery.  I hope this still fits the bill as it deals with science.  I was bored one day and happened to run accross a virus name that made me do a double-take because I thought there was no way the name could be real.  Well it was real and it made me take some time to find others like it.  Put on your childish man-boy hat and prepare to GIGGLE!  Some of these I was able...