Category: General

  • Big Fat Greek Problem

    In preparing to be host of next summer’s Olympics, Athens has faced the usual hurdles, like finding enough hotel space and finishing construction on the venues.  But some less conventional problems have cropped up too. Initially, the government planned to license extra brothels to meet surging demand during the Games (at the Sydney Olympics[2000], 10,000…

  • Is Dr. Phil Oprah’s slave?

    In the 15 December 2003 issue of Time magazine; in the interview column; the interviewer asked Oprah Winfrey the following question: "What do you think of your boy Dr. Phil’s diet book?"Man alive!  The question seems a little insensitive given the good doctors age; let alone the historical racial undertones of the word "boy."

  • What does this mean?

    I took the IQ Test at Emode and scored 138.  Does that mean I’m an idiot; or not?

  • Make yourself a flake

    You can make your own snowflake. Dr. Wingnut’s snowflake looks like this:

  • What were they thinking?

    I saw the following Windsor Canadian ad on a billboard this morning on my way to work.  "Save for a special day (like Tuesday)"  Talk about putting yourself squarely into the commonplace camp of the banal.

  • Tired of it

    I’m getting the feeling that the rest of the non-IT world is getting tired with the offshore-outsourcing trend.  People appear to be getting tired of dealing with corporations that only care about the money.  The rise of truly crappy customer service appears to be pissing people off, and they are blaming companies for putting the…

  • What to do with fido when you can’t stand him any more.

    If your dog is really neurotic, or stupid, or just bugs you in some other way, you can get rid of him by sending him to the dog island.Finally somewhere to send Buster!  He wouldn’t be too bad if he wasn’t part shark (Has to keep moving or he will die).