I will probably not be buying an iPhone 3G. For starters, in NZ the new Vodafone plans launched for the iPhone are laughably terrible. It’s a given that no-one is buying an iPhone and not anticipating using it for web browsing and whatnot, so you’d expect that iPhone-specific…
People who I only really know through various online services and who send me friend requests on Facebook should probably include a message with their nicknames, because I do tend to keep my friends list pared down to just my actual friends. So I end up saying stuff like: “A…
Okay, so. Superbishops. Special, super, bishops. That only guys can be. Because obviously they’re needed, now that women can be regular bishops. Oh course, when women get to be Superbishops, I guess they’ll have to make Ultrabishops, or Hyperbishops or OMEGA BISHOPS. Can’t really have women being…
The GODDAMN Internet! I HAS IT! I guess Telecom fixed our DSL at the exchange today, because we have connectivity again, and no tech has come out here. Honestly, it’s like stepping free into the sunlight after a long and injust imprisonment.…
Late last thursday morning, my home DSL connection failed. When I got home, I logged into the router and saw no login, no line protocol, and no carrier signal. But we still had a dial tone. So as a final test, I unplugged our filter and plugged the phone directly…
Chris: ha! latest news from the phoenix lander on the soil samples… Chris: “Sam Kounaves, the lead investigator for the wet chemistry laboratory on Phoenix, told journalists: ‘It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard, you know, alkaline. You might be able to grow…
Quite a while back I mentioned to Annette that ‘they’ were making an Alvin and the chipmunks movie. Now, I was never a fan of the original, so my care factor about this project was zero. I did, however, use it to mention that there’s NO WAY they could…
Crap. George Carlin has died. An extremely funny man, and a great influence on me during my formative years. I have only this to say: Shit. Piss. Fuck. Cunt. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits.…