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I beg for your help before my brain explodes
This is a shameless, blatant cry for help. Lemme just say that right now. I tried installing a new printer today and have had a miserable time. If ANY of you out there can help, or if you know someone who can help, please do something. Here’s some background information: This is the very first [...]
This post’s title translates to “Purple Basket Honker” in Welsh
While reading though some stuff at the BBC news site today, I found this. It amuses me. These people needed to have a sign made, to tell truck drivers they couldn’t use a certain entrance. The message they wanted was “No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only.” So far, so good, right? Well, [...]
My wild cards
It’s been many years since I played poker. I’ve never been very good at it, and I barely remember how to play. I’ve never understood the whole procedure of betting and upping and ante-ing and all that. (So it’s a good thing I’ve never actually played for money, huh?) I remember one version where the [...]
Janna’s journey into the MPYR Twilight Zone
Let me take you on a journey. This is the journey of Janna, trying to find a way to listen to MPYR Radio online. As some of you know, I got a brand new computer this week. It is awesome. I still have dial-up, which sorta sucks, but still, I’ve been able to listen to [...]
Things I Still Don’t Know, Even Though I’m About To Turn 38…
1. Why are the Florida keys called “KEYS”? Are they key-shaped? Do they contain ways to access secret treasure? Why? What? 2. Why is marijuana sometimes called “Pot”? Did someone once grow it in a pot? Did some high person forget how to pronounce “marijuana”, and happened to be looking at a flower pot instead, [...]
Things I don’t understand, Part 8
When matter gets warm, it expands. When matter cools, it shrinks. Simple, right? That’s because the molecules vibrate more at higher temperatures, so they need more space to do their little molecular disco (or whatever the kids are calling it these days). Here’s the thing, though… Water is exactly the opposite. Water EXPANDS when it [...]
Things I don’t understand, Part 7
Let’s just all agree on the fact that I don’t understand life in general. Can we all agree on that? Great. Now, on to the next post…
Things I don’t understand, Part 6
Here is proof that I’m not the most technologically advanced person on the globe. Over the weekend Lee and Morgen gave me their VCR and a bunch of videotapes (they’re DVD people now). I have no idea how to hook up a VCR. Honest. They’re almost obsolete, and yet I never learned how exactly all [...]
Things I don’t understand, Part 5
I don’t understand baseball. Neither do I understand any sport where a ball of some kind has to be directed toward a basket or hole or goal area of some kind. That pretty much covers all team sports. I realize that guys everywhere will probably hate me for saying this, but the world would be [...]
