I’ve had an electric drum set for a few years now. It’s been fun, but since I started playing bass a couple of years ago, I recently realized that I haven’t touched the drum set since. After going to a local music store and hearing they’d offer me next to nothing for it, I decided to sell it on eBay. The four boxes left my local Staples fine – look at how the boxes arrived at their destination, courtesy of UPS…
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Sentimental Baggage
For the last 72 hours I’ve been on a tear, ripping through every room of my condo, weeding out the things that I have no intention of moving to Washington with me next month… and in the process, I believe I have broken the Theory of Relativity – there is no way that one person can have amassed this amount of crap in just one condo.
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Snow Globe: Shaken, Not Stirred
Hello, Redmond.
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Frasier Finale
Frasier says, “While it’s tempting to play it safe, the more we’re willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took. And I hope that explains, at least a little, this journey on which I’m about to embark… Goodnight, Seattle.” Offers closure and a bit of inspiration – or even explanation – to his characters, but because of the setting of his radio booth, I think it was a pretty good way to end the show, saying good-bye to his listeners, and in this case, viewers. After all, being Frasier for twenty years… quite a long time with a strong following. I just think it ended the show a little better than “Friends” did last week.
Spam to Email Ratio
Mark this one in your record books, folks: I’ve gotten two emails, from family and friends today (and yesterday for that matter), for every one piece of Spam that I’ve received. Of course, I have a Spam filter through Outlook and my ISP has a Spam filter on their server, so any junk mail that does make it to the Inbox is pretty slick, but still, this is bizarre. I haven’t had more personal email than junk mail for well over five years. You’d think there was some change coming in my life or something…
Just thought I’d share the joy of non-Spam email indused glow!
Adult Happy Meals?
Almost went off the road when I heard this one driving to work this morning, but it’s real: McDonald’s now has Adult Happy Meals. If the standard kids meal is with a cheeseburger and the “mighty” kids meal comes with a double cheeseburger, what the hell would be in the adult version? A triple cheeseburger? Two BigMacs with a Tums for a toy? Strangely enough, the McMarketing department is alive and thinking: the “Go Active! Happy Meal” includes a salad, a bottle of water, a “Stepometer to track your steps”, and some fitness guide… I always find it amusing to see someone jump on a bandwagon when it can, and, well, McD’s just jumped in, head first.
Milestone
Go to Google. Type in “Boston Sucks”. Click “I’m Feeling Lucky”. You’ll find your way back to this site. Some how, this article became first in line within the Google’s data storage system, for the phrase Boston Sucks [I’ve got nothing against the city – just the MLB team that plays there]
Fans of the Yankees, be glad that such a time-honored phrase is claimed by one of your own.
Fire Rumsfeld?
I have two simple questions on this topic.
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School For Sale
eBay: FORMER SCHOOL BUILDING FOR LEASE, NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT
At 2.5 million, it’s a bit much for a single person to nick, but it’s cheap for a house with a full kitchen and indoor basketball court on 2.8 acres (given the price of land in Connecticut). It does make me wonder about asbestos and lead paint, though.
Bullying
I happened to catch a part of the Today show today. I think it was Today – Katie Couric was on, so it musta been NBC. Anyway, Katie tells us about how the majority of the HS kids that have committed school-related shootings, over the last ten years, have been bullied at some point. I don’t find this surprising, but whatever. She then goes on to say that some kid was going to have to go to court for defending himself and they were going to talk to him, live. Caught my interest, so I kept it on. Twas a mistake: now my brain hurts.
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Star Trek Moment
Nemesis has finally hit cable – consequently it has been on at least four times a day – so it has been on my TV a few times over the last month, and I noticed something that caused me to wonder a little bit… during one of the battle scenes, Captain Picard gives the command to “fire at will” to the entire battle crew. Yet no one shoots at Commander Riker… Talk about an over abundance of free time, neh?
This Does Explain a Lot…
MSN: Ready for the gossip equivalent of gulping down the red pill? The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Larry Wachowski, co-creator (with his brother Andy) of the “Matrix” trilogy, is preparing to undergo a sex change operation.
Explains why the brothers weren’t altogether focused on their plot line when making the last two Matrix movies… although as distracting as it might be to get rid of your own penis, why on earth did we all have to be subjected to the downward spiral that was Revolutions?
Um…
I was browsing some things over Amazon – mostly looking for a new set of headphones, since the Apple iPod In-Ear model can’t compare to the Sony Fontopia pair that I lost an ear thing for – and I noticed their “Featured item” which selected, specifically for me, using their marketing modeling/tracking information. My featured item? A 36-pack of Trojans.
Best supporting case to make “targeted marketing” an oxymoron.
Why My Local Cable Company Sucks Unimaginably Large Ass
I can hear you saying it now: “so does mine.” I don’t doubt your local cable service sucks, but I’m 100% certain that it doesn’t suck as much as mine does. And what’s worse is that I feel like I just had a colonoscopy exam after reading their new rates list. So yes, I can prove it: my cable company sucks worse than yours.
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Finally, Radio Shack Comes Through With Something Useful!
Got a surround sound system? Got wires running to the rear speakers that are a) running across the room and over a coffee table, b) running along floor boards, or c) taped to the side of a wall? Someone finally has a solution for such a set up: Radio Shack’s 5.8GHz Wireless Rear-Channel Amplifier (product #15-1974).
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