Sir, May I See Your Receipt?

I am a cranky old man at the ripe age ot 28 already. As a matter of fact, I began one of my cranky practices while I was still in high school. I love Radio Shack. What electronics geek doesn’t? Wires, cables, batteries, and 5 billion things that plug into the wall. It’s a man’s heaven on earth, along with the other staples of Best Buy, Sears, and Home Depot. RAWR!!

Radio Shack has, since I can remember, asked you for your zip code at check-out. Some ask for your phone number. I have always told them they can’t have it or that I don’t have one. I often wonder if they think I’m homeless or a bold-faced liar. Don’t care. I’m not giving them one shred more details about my personal information than I have to. They have my money, and I have their merchandise.

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5 Ways to Tell if You Are a Geek

From my own twisted mind:

  1. You would rather get a new computer chair than ANYthing fun for the house, car, or your kids.
  2. Your keyboard has more macro functions than letters and numbers.
  3. In order to get to sleep, you mentally go to your Start Menu and select Shut Down (Install Updates and Shut Down, if available).
  4. Your cell phone and PDA calendars are more up-to-date than your last meal is old.
  5. Your wife calls you when she gets a 404 error on the Internet because you should be able to fix it.

What Do You Know and When Did You Learn It?

I wonder...Times are a-changing. Few things date you like being asked by someone in school a homework question only to find out that your vast knowledge has been rendered obsolete.

My first experience with this problem occurred nearly two years ago when someone asked me what the 5 oceans ot the Earth are. I counted them out for her: “Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic… there are only 4 oceans. Is this multiple choice? There has to be something wrong here.” After pulling up Wikipedia, I discovered that there is now a Southern Ocean listed in the Oceans article. When I went to the Southern Ocean article, I learned that 28 nations from the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) decided for the world that they wanted to create a new ocean. When were they going to tell all of us who had already graduated?

The next major change came recently when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) re-defined the term “planet” and removed Pluto from the Solar System. At least I read the paper that day. Now we have 8 planets and 3 “dwarf planets.” How do the Roloffs feel about that term?

What is next? Making a mile 5,000 feet to “make it a round number” or something like that?

Rolling Rock Beer; Fair or Foul?

This had me in stitches, however, I recently read some angry pieces about men being portrayed as guffawing baffoons in the media. Obviously, some people think this is funny, as almost 1 million people have viewed it on YouTube’s site.

What do you say, is this commercial fair or foul?