Good Grief!

Approximately four more hours before I ditch the soulless office park and get ready for the great outdoors. Before signing off, however, I must tell you many important things.

These songs can turn you gay! Thanks to secret comics for directing me to the Weekly World News, because I don’t already subscribe to enough stupid feeds.
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In all of the recent brouhaha about judicial filibusters and nuclear options and ambiguous compromises, it has come to my attention that no one actually filibusters. Apparently, the mere threat of a lawmaker reading the phone book for hours on end is enough to make the opposition retreat. Pretty weak, wouldn’t you say?
I, for one, […]

A year after signing up for the Amazon Associate program, I got my first gift certificate for ten dollars! That’s amazing, considering that my Amazon links were buried on a semi-secret page. Thanks to everyone who bought stuff. That is cool.
To celebrate, I am upping the whore quotient and putting an Amazon […]

I guess Jim Thome got bored on the disabled list, because today he paid a visit to the soulless office park. It’s National Hospital Week, you know.
Buttwise, Thome is no Pat Burrell. No offense, Jim.

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Good Grief has a strict no quiz policy. You know, because people who put quizzes on weblogs are mindless followers with nothing original to say. Who cares what 70s punk rock drummer or lipstick color I am? I don’t wear lipstick, and I don’t need a silly quiz to know that I’m […]

With the exception of one problem client*, my life coaching experiment is going well. As promised, I have feedback for those who took advantage of the free special.
Viggo Mortensen can’t get a date with his favorite blogger. Sorry, Viggo, but you are yesterday’s news. I’ve moved on.
Yoko wants advice on how to […]

Here it is almost 1:00 PM on April Fool’s day, and I haven’t instigated or witnessed a single prank (except for Google Gulp, which is only mildly amusing). Thankfully, the past week has produced some hysterical weblog entries that make up for this lack of April Fool’s goodness.

Geese Aplenty explains organic spam filters and lists […]

Okay, so there are flaws in the shepherding career change idea. Apparently this occupation is not as pastoral as I had envisioned. Also, I don’t want to work outside in bad weather.
So now I am going to be a personal life coach:

Coaching is the world’s second-fastest growing business skill.
Coaching is a relatively new […]

Our suite in the soulless office park has a hallway that connects the front and back parts of the building. At one end of the hall sits a mysterious, 1985-ish computer terminal with orange letters on a black, eighty-character-by-twenty-four-line screen. The screen is always on, flashing cryptic messages and symbols.
So I was running through the […]

I’ve been in the Information Technology (IT) biz for almost ten years. During that time we got some exciting stuff like the Internet, Y2K hysteria, dot coms, and dot bombs. I’ve adjusted from the comforting world of programming in COBOL/IMS/CICS on a central mainframe to the mysterious world of n-gazillion-tier applications and Microsoft certifications that […]