discardia

Yesterday night, my boss comes by my temp cube here in Amarillo and asks if I would like to go drive some beemers.
At first I thought he was kidding. Nope. We drove over to the local BMW dealership on the south side of Amarillo where the Susan G. Komen Drive for the Cure […]

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Here is the scene: Dark and stormy night, sand as far as the eye can see. In the midst of egyptian ruins, Indiana Jones and Sala on their stomachs, peering down into the depths of the Well of Souls. Indiana sighs deeply and rolls onto his back and mutters: “Snakes. Why did […]

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Today I leave for the little spit stop pit stop named Amarillo, Texas. You may have heard of it. It is in a couple country songs, none of which are any good. Ungood, almost. You could say, to a certian extent, that the good is almost Lovecraftian in its deep and […]

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Via Boing Boing

Jonathan Zittrain and Laura Frieder have studied over 75,000 pump-and-dump stock-scam emails and determined that they actually produce a pretty good return — for the spammer.
People who respond to the “pump and dump” scam can lose 8% of their investment in two days.
Conversely, the spammers […]

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Yeah thats right. And the answer is: I’m your daddy.
At least, in nine months I get to ask that question. Although I’ve never heard of a baby being able to talk fresh out of the womb, I am expecting he/she will learn quick enough and I will get the correct answer in due […]

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From Wired:
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“I’d like everyone to take a deep breath and listen for a minute.
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not […]

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If you need a refresher, click me.

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I give you a dead ipod. Dead as dead can be. No click of death, just a sad icon on the screen. Hard resets, diagnostics and disk mode resets are all futile.
So what do you do? Pay the $100 diagnostic fee, plus the $100 part replacement, plus shipping?
Hell no! […]

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