Good Grief!

Apparently, certain tasks related to my new job involve Internet Relay Chat. IRC? People still do that? According to this circa-1990s site:
Sure, the Web is nice for finding info and E-mail beats snailmail hands down, but when you’ve been wondering ‘where the others are?’, then IRC is what you’re looking for. […]

There’s some debate about whether putting trolleys back onto Route 15 (Philadelphia’s Girard Avenue) is a good thing, but whatever. The trolleys have returned, they look all cool and retro, and they replace those smoke-and-grime-belching busses.*
During many years of riding SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority) busses from Fairmount to Center City, I never encountered […]

From the Festival Guide:
[A] scatological Indianapolis 500 sure to be a highlight in this year’s Festival. Competition will be created by the lucky few racing aloft these johns-on-wheels. Be there to cheer them on as they ponder such uncertainties as - Is the toilet a metaphor for equality? The race a metaphor for life? Portapotties […]

Yeah, yeah… Google has some super cool applications. As you surely know, Google Maps makes Mapquest seem so late 90s. And Gmail is great once you embrace the “no folders” way of thinking.
But this new Google Talk instant messaging thing being spewed all over the Internet? As Scott observed, it has […]

From this week’s I Love You/I Hate You section of the Philadelphia City Paper:
FUCKING FUCKHEADS -
Attention city drivers: Stay out of Becky’s way. I heard she’s looking into a stun gun.
PS Mom, don’t worry. I am still on a cussing hiatus, but the expletives above are a quote*, so it’s okay.
*Specifically, a […]

So what does it mean when you arrive home on a dark and stormy night to find an apparent doll suicide in your back yard? The properties to the left and right are currently vacant, so this poor, plastic creature obviously jumped from the second story of the house behind me.

UPDATE: Dan has […]

As required by the laws of home ownership, I recently acquired a drill (thanks, Clair) and have been making holes in the basement. Now that I possess both a drill and a fifty pound Solid-State Osterizer Cyclomatic blender, I’m pretty much unstoppable, so don’t mess with me.
Did you hear that Verizon? Don’t mess […]

Special K did not have his annual Fourth of July roof deck party*, so I went home to check out Lititz’s annual Fourth of July extravaganza. Again, I have to ask—why aren’t any webloggers covering Lititz, PA? Two notable events occurred during this visit.
Because I’ve been stalking Shoe Man for the past year, I asked […]

Yesterday the soulless office park Business Intelligence crew, led by boss-across-the-hall, played hooky at Six Flags Great Adventure to celebrate our Award. For job security reasons I don’t talk much about work, but I’m leaving anyway, so what the hell?
A few months ago, boss-across gave me the green light to enter one of our […]

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 […]