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Guess what arrived at the soulless office park this morning? My cell phone! How is it possible for Verizon to ship a phone in less time than the average wait on their customer service hotline? It is truly amazing.
Even though I’ve only made two calls so far, I can feel radio waves and gamma waves […]

There must be something in the water around here* because things are happening. Big things. Superwoman got a job in San Francisco, and her first day was Monday. I know she’ll kick ass and I couldn’t be happier for her, but life just won’t be the same without Superwoman’s hospitality, warmth, and ability to listen […]

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 […]

So there’s been some talk about the Borgata casino’s crackdown on costumed cocktail servers:
On Valentine’s Day, the casino began randomly weighing its 217 Borgata Babes, a brigade of shapely and mostly female cocktail servers, to determine a baseline for each. If any gain an ounce over 7 percent of that weight, they are to be […]

Thanks to Clair, who probably just wanted to relax after a long day of work last Thursday but instead endured an expletive-laden phone call about DVD players and why the fuck would they put two red holes in the back when there is only one goddamn red plug and what kind of moron wrote that […]

It’s time for a new home theatre system, mostly because the ratio of VHS cassettes to new-fangled digital discs at TLA video is not looking good these days. I decided to buy a no-name DVD player because it has all of these features for the low, low price of fifty bucks:

DVD, CD, MP3, WMA, […]

An explanation for non-Philadelphians: these phones are part of the Underground Franklin Museum, the city’s trippy tribute to the real Big Ben. Visitors use the phones to call D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Paine and other famous people who wax poetic about Benjamin Franklin and his various deeds.
Alas, the Franklin Exchange is on the […]

Thanks, Scott!

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