Author: Dr Wingnut
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Satisfying Supergeeks
"Did you realize," my daughter asked me one day, "that Dad has about 20 computer keyboards in the basement? What’s up with that?"Great question, I thought. Too bad I’ll never get a straight answer. To my eternal chagrin, I’ve found that direct inquiries about technology purchases at my house always seem to end up in…
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Create your own Engrish!
Machine Translation isn’t what its cracked up to be.Try the Create your own Engrish! procedure posted at www.engrish.com. They also have Christmas Cards with a picture of Santa Claus winking with the greeting, "Have you done a nice boy & girl?" for sale in the engrish store. Very nice.
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Holiday Christmas Party Memo
The following is a slight rewrite of the the classic Christmas Party memo which I got from my friend Julie K. via email, Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:47:47 -0600.From:Patty Lewis, Human Resources DirectorTo:All EmployeesDate:October 01, 2003Re:Christmas PartyI’m happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23, starting at noon…
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Upper Management Training
An man walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand and a bucket of manure in the other. He says to the waiter, "I would like a cup of coffee." The waiter says, "Sure thing, coming right up." He gets the man a tall mug of coffee, and the man drinks it down…
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Can we control spam?
Can we control spam? Probably not. When every scumbag who can get a used PC and can hook himself up through an ISP; and set up his very own mail server, there is no way to enforce the front-end of the pipeline. As Michael J. Miller’s editorial in the 30 December, 2003 issue of PC…