Blog of Doom

Tactical decision:

Q: So what do you call a Macintosh with a Pentium inside?
A: ICBM (Intel-Chip-Based Mac)
Spread the word…
(Via Geekable.com.)
Nice!

Dell hell, continued: Self-service:
I was thinking about this service process, in which Dell and other computer makers make us suffer through service with them. They take some S&M glee in making us wait on hold and talk to their people for hours (costing them money, by the way).
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But with computers, we are expected to suffer [...]

I must confess, I’m a gamer. That’s right, behind this ultra-cool exterior lies a Dungeons and Dragons nerd. I am one of those people you’ve heard of who likes to play role-playing games, though that isn’t all of it. Not only did I play a Dungeons and Dragons like game, sank even further into nerdity [...]

Morgan recently started calling me Michael.
If I’m making him popcorn and leave, when the microwave beeper goes off, he calls out, “Miiichael!”, and points at the microwave. If he wants me to open a door for him or come over and look at something, if calling Daddy doesn’t work, he uses Michael.
He learned my name [...]

Not again! Tonight our power went out again. It wouldn’t be so bad, but it seems that it only goes out in our apartment complex. I see the lights still on across the field from where we live. I can’t see anything on the other side, because that overlooks the inside of the complex and [...]

Today we got Ash’s new DVD drive in the mail. She bought Sims 2 last weekend and was excited about the fun she was going to have playing it. Unfortunately she was to be disappointed. It comes on a DVD, not a CD, and her Quicksilver Power Mac G4 desktop computer only has a CD [...]

Only two decent pictures came out today for Morgan on his trip to Inflatable Insanity, or “Jumping” as he likes to call it. He did ok today until we had to come home. He was a little rough with Dawn Siau’s little girl, but I think that was accidental. He also kept trying to put [...]

I was just amused at myself today, thinking about some of the things I’ve set up for security on this blog. For example, I have a new plugin on Wordpress (my blogging software) called Bad Behavior. I just installed it this morning. You can see it in the Statistics section of the sidebar. It is [...]

I have a bag from Rhino-Skin, which I use to hold my PDA and Cell Phone, plus business cards and a pen. Ash started calling it my Purse, which of course I absolutely will not stand for. I insisted that she call it a Man-Purse. Not only that, she must call it a Man-Purse with [...]

The poor guy has been sick all week, so no school for him. He was in a summer school program for two weeks. He went last week but couldn’t go this week. He was feeling better yesterday and I sent him to school (well, took him since the schoolbus didn’t show up).
I got a call [...]