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Memo to Charlie Sheen

Dear Mr. Sheen,

I’ve been authorized by the entire known universe to inform you that no one really gives the tiniest fraction of a shit anymore. Seriously. The only reason anyone’s still paying attention is the vicarious thrill of listening to a crackhead’s meandering rants without having to put up with the horrible smell(s) and general discomfort that would come with actual physical proximity. No one’s in your corner. You’re a kind of performing, methed-out poodle.

Dear press corps(e),

Stop giving this clown even so much as a few seconds of airtime or even so much as an inch of column space. Nations are falling, people are dying, the entire shape of the world as we know it is changing around us. The performing poodle’s assertion that he’s embroiled in some kind of righteous battle is laughable – and I’m trying to be charitable here, it’s actually somewhere between laughable and pitiful – when there are people in the world who are actually engaged in a struggle for their lives and freedom from tyranny.

I’m gonna say it again for everyone’s benefit: performing poodle. One who can’t even jump through a hoop anymore.… Read more

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Gadgetology

Tablet victory?

PADDing out this postAfter a few phone calls today, I can report that, hopefully, I finally have a little bit of resolution in the nagging case of the non-functional Sylvania wi-fi tablet. If you recall, I got it on special on Black Friday, and within a month it was falling apart from the inside. Since shortly before Christmas I was trying to reach the New Jersey-based outfit to whom Sylvania has farmed out all support for their tablets and netbooks, to no avail. … Read more

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...And Little E Makes 3 Critters Home Base

E and Z, or how to unclog your dog

We had to spend an unnervingly large amount of my wife’s paycheck on a vet visit for Xena the other day. She hasn’t been the same since the weather got nice again and we let her go back outside – well, it’s more like we had to push her outside.

E & Z

And therein lies the problem. … Read more

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Cooking With Code

Deadjournal

In a minor housekeeping note that’ll alarm absolutely no one: I’ve killed my Livejournal account. No big drama involved – actually, I’d forgotten it was there. I haven’t made an entry on it that wasn’t automatically transplanted from here in a couple of years; that’s about how long it’s been since I’ve read anyone’s stuff there. Most of my entries were private (and are manually linked to Facebook anyway); just about anyone who’s been reading on Facebook is the same crowd who would’ve been reading it on Livejournal, assuming anyone actually visits Livejournal anymore. The WordPress plugin that crossposted to LJ automatically has been causing some minor issues and I thought I’d just bip the whole thing in the nuds.

Surely you guys know where to find me by now.… Read more

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Funny Stuff Should We Talk About The Weather?

Attention snowflakes and ice

Sit on this and spin!Attention, all snowflakes and ice occupying any portion of my property:

The current temperature here is well over 50 degrees Fahrenheit, i.e. 20 degrees above the freezing point of water. You are hereby requested and required to vacate the premises immediately. If you wish to stay here in a liquefied state, that will be an acceptable compromise, but I am hereby banning all frozen water from this property immediately.

If you do not vacate the premises immediately as instructed, you are liable to find yourself dyed yellow by the least hygenic means available to me and my dog.

That is all.

Love,
The Management
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Feedback Gadgetology

Big E vs. Sylvania

DerezzedA couple of months back, you probably remember me waxing rhapsodic about the Sylvania wi-fi net tablet… and then being extremely frustrated that it failed to even last four weeks without falling apart from the inside.

I tried to contact the company handling customer support on this device, Digital Gadgets, to no avail – they sent me a link to an online trouble ticket system that didn’t work. And that was a few days before Christmas. I haven’t heard a peep from them since, despite trying to bring the issue with their trouble ticket site and the issue with my tablet to them several times.

With no further response from Digital Gadgets (why do I have a feeling that I’d be dealing with Peggy?), I’ve now taken the matter up directly with the company whose name is on the box and on the product itself – Sylvania. … Read more