Category Archives: Humor
We Never Close
A sign on a door is a promise. This one promised service 24/7/365. Yet the store was only open 8 hours a day during the week and only 4 hours over the weekend. Sure, the owner was willing to put a phone number on the door and encourage a visitor to call if the store [...]
Switcher Alert: Big Blue enters Infinite Loop in Research
Something is rotten in the town of Redmond, Washington. IBM is using Macs. IBM Launches Pilot Program for Migrating to Macs And through the course of this pilot program, 86% of the users wanted to keep their Macs. A quote from the article… “When presenting at customer or external meetings, I have been greeted with [...]
Piano Actually Found
At a recent medical checkup, the doctor noticed sound waves coming out of my ears. He deemed this “rather odd” and ordered additional tests. Three specialists later and it has been confirmed that there is an actual piano inside my brain. It is a Steinway micro-grand, which is about the size of a book of [...]
Steven Colbert on Wikiality
As a follow-up to the previous post about understanding Wikis, here is a great segment from The Colbert Report. In August of 2006, Steven Colbert edited several Wikipedia articles during the taping of his show. After making his changes, Colbert encouraged his viewers to spread his concept of Wikiality by changing the Wikipedia entries on [...]
Tourist Trap in Ohio
The excitement (?!) from yesterday was a trip to Lehman’s, a store that excels in pretending to connect tourists to the Amish. Apparently, they just completed major renovations and expanded significantly to add a café. The store itself (and its newly expanded parking lot) is located in the center of downtown (ahem) Kidron, Ohio. Please [...]
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Local Advertisements in Ohio
Glancing through the local paper on my vacation in the middle of Ohio, I found this ad… Yes, really. For the neighbors’ sake, I hope that they come more than once per week.
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