When I was younger I worked retail, and I remember dreading the holiday season; we’d be completely busy, and customers were never ruder. I’ve seen ads poking fun at rabid crowds trying to break down doors before stores open to get the latest deals around the holidays, and it’s always some comment about how the [...]
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With all the tweaking to get my Dell Vostro 1500 working with Ubuntu, it’s still been an annoyance to get sound working evertime after hibernation. It goes to sleep fine, it wakes up fine, it obeys all of the power preferences I defined within Gnome fine too, it’s just that when it comes out [...]
I have some AVIs that I needed to get into the VOB format so I could burn them to DVD. I knew I could do this in Linux, but didn’t know how. Here is how I did it with Debian GNU/Linux (testing - Lenny). First I installed the GTK+ app, Avidemux (don’t [...]
Here’s a great, recent News of the Weird article,”Roy Hollander filed a civil rights lawsuit against Columbia University in New York City in August, claiming that its “women’s studies” curriculum teaches a religion-like philosophy that oppresses men by blaming them for nearly all social problems. (When interviewed by the New York Daily News, Hollander declined [...]
It’s time to start up a new feature, an outlet for my critical eye that I call things I don’t like, or TIDL for short. To kick things off I’ll start with mock turtlenecks. The online Merriam-Webster dictionary defines them this way: mock turtleneck Function: noun Date: 1966 1 : a [...]
Wow, amazing news of late for people like me that are still laughing so hard it hurts while rewatching the Arrested Development DVDs, a movie deal is brewing. From a recent interview with Bluth family spokesperson…er, I mean Jason Bateman “I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started,” Bateman says. “Any talk [...]
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