Archive for April, 2005
Cruel and unusual punishment
Just another example of a story that makes me cringe when I think of the “Power of Pride” stickers I see on people’s cars. People are so damn proud of this country and either don’t realize or don’t care that the rest of the civilized world [Read More]
uPromise
Does anyone not have a uPromise account but wants one? There’s not much to it…you register your credit cards and supportmarket cards with them, and then when you make certain purchases–Exxon gasolina or Egglang eggs, for example–a few cents go into [Read More]
Awesome ebay seller
Response from person who sold me the laptop with the small screen: I sent out your replacement IBM laptop today. I had to send a PIII 750, yours must of went to the person that received yours. So, I sent an upgrade. I figured you would not mind. :) [Read More]
LJ looks terrible at 800×600
But it’s nice after four weeks of coming down here to finally have internet in the hotel room. The eBay listing from which I bought the IBM A22m, P3-700 said the laptop had a 14″ screen capable of 1024×800 resolution. Nope. It’s a 12″ screen [Read More]
Congress may extend daylight savings time to save about a teaspoon of oil
As a fan of darkness and nighttime, I would not be happy to see daylight savings time extended. Congress is adding that provision to their energy bill, which hopefully has so many egregious, evil parts to it that it will never pass. The more daylight we have, the less [Read More]
Vigalante
I guess a vigalante takes matters into his own hands without involving the law. I just called the cops on whatever asshole in my complex has a car alarm that goes off every 2-3 minutes. I need to be up around 5 and tried to get to sleep by 12. But this alarm goes off [Read More]
