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Best of Spam: This one for “Spam spam, wonderful spam…”

Comment: Another great post, congratulations.. I actually recommended your actual web page on this site. I fully grasp your issue is without a doubt never as significant as yours, nonetheless the idea is an very important study meant for us.My … Continue reading

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Firefly/Serenity and The Fifth Element

Who thinks Firefly/Serenity and The Fifth Element are among their favorite science fiction items. Those two are classics, and apparently on the air regularly, recently.  Babylon 5 was also a very good, and coherent series, as well. My personal choice … Continue reading

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Linux and MS Outlook

A PCWorld post on their ‘Day 8’ of a Linux newbie day-in-the-life item made me do this. The article, by Tony Bradley, was fine, but reading the comments caused me spew forth these thoughts as I read through, so any … Continue reading

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Winter. Insane in the Membrane. Just because.

I got this thing from my sister, as a sort of Xmas/B-Day present. Somehow, I feel compelled to write about it. FINGER PUPPETS (Unemployed Philosophers Guild) Axis of Evil Theatre Cast: Kim Jong Il Saddam Hussein George Bush Ayatollah Khamenei … Continue reading

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Not so Bright

OK, Neither BrightHouse, nor MicroSoft can tell my Mother how to get a BCC option on a new Email she wants to send? As she says, after calling BrightHouse who sent her to MicroSoft. BrightHouse is the company whose employee … Continue reading

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Why Me? KILL Kill kill… consumerbacterium

This was building up before, but WHY, does EVERYTHING Fucking Hate ME? EVERYTHING! [compressed Swearing & Smashing here]Morons in market queues, on highways, work or play, it takes me Effort not to smash this keyboard into dust, but even THAT … Continue reading

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Good by, Averatec 3225HS laptop!

Sorry, old pal, but you gotta go. Six years of intermittent service. But you just refuse to run any version of Linux for which I can find an .iso download!  It takes you centuries to boot into WinXP, and with … Continue reading

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Spam spam, wonderful spam…

Ya gotta love Blog Spammers! I really loved this one. Get out the dictionary, folks! You’ll also need your grammar and logic suspension medications, too! (Oh, this will probably prompt more spam. Bugger.) One Alleged Comment: “Innovative, they studied to … Continue reading

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USA in a handbasket?

“Well, Sonny, I remember when we actually used to MAKE stuff around here. But they moved the making part, so now we are just supposed to BUY stuff.” Recently spotted news items, as well as personal experience, makes me worry … Continue reading

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What do you call a half-full/ Half-Pint of Half & Half?

I’m just thinking, is all. Net Neutrality, (ComCrap/NBC), Taking down whole sites on allegations by corporate interests. America in decline. The reason is we don’t make anything here, we only consume. We consume goods, people. Corporations (large, and getting larger) … Continue reading

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