Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

I know of two large online communities (in the tens of thousands of users) that have disabled the ability to privately message or email other users, and have outlawed the discussion of personal contact information on the boards. This seems to me to be defeating the purpose of a community per se, by not [...]

1. Be working on a research paper due Monday.
2. Look in the dog kennel. Discover just the cap of what appears to be silicon sealant. Do not find the rest of the tube.
3. Also, while attempting to fix computers seeing each other on the home network, do something to your computer’s permissions that [...]

Good Mourning Tree Co. (or Good Mourning Tree Co.) has evolved! Woohoo!
They have gone from littering my house to littering my blog!
Well hey, at least they’re not killing trees for the paper to advertise now. Hyuck hyuck.
I find it amusing that the name in the email address they used three times is the [...]

I hate woulda shoulda coulda. I hate my Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday morning quarterbacking. I hate the fact that my heart’s permanently embedded in my sleeve. I wish I were a tough guy.
It’s been a bad week. Caroline’s over the flu but she’s acquired temper-itis and I’m having a hard [...]

I just went through Fantastico on my webhost to see if there were any old, unused webapps I could uninstall. I get this urge to tidy up my directories once in a while. Turns out there were a couple of old forums I had that I didn’t use, so I told Fantastico to [...]

On Thursday morning, as I was checking mail from my in-laws’ house, I got an end-of-auction win notice from eBay. The problem is that I didn’t bid on any $250 PSP. Around that time I started getting a bunch of email bounce notifications. Apparently someone hacked my eBay account, which I guess [...]

There’s an ad in one of my magazines about talking to your kids about drugs. One of the little bullet points is something like, “But I did drugs when I was a kid. How can I talk about not doing them? OMG hypocrit!”
The response mentions that drugs are so much worse now [...]

I finished my presentation for school yesterday, which I had been waiting on before upgrading to Leopard. Got out the disk earlier today, popped it in the ol’ Macbook Pro, and… *whir* *whir* *whir?* *whir.*
Damn thing won’t spin up.
Tried it in the 17″ Powerbook. Worked fine.
I was having problems with this drive the [...]

Obligatory “SecuROM sucks” here.
Greetings,
I purchased Knights of the Old Republic 2 to play on my MacBook Pro
using Parallels virtualization software. When I try to play it, the
disk spins for a long time, then I get a popup window saying
“Original disc could not be found or authenticated.” I have all four
original disks, plus the [...]

“Discrete” means separate.
“Discreet” means quietly.
If you do something discretely, you do it one at a time. Unconnectedly. Apart.
If you do something discreetly, you do it unobtrusively. Circumspectly. Silently.
I don’t think I have seen ANYONE use the proper spelling for “discreet” in the last 4 years. Did they stop teaching vocabulary [...]