So who decided to put the start of the day in the middle of the night? Or the start of the year in the middle of winter? Who ate all the cupcakes? Why do we care when the odometer…
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Dictionary.com Takes A Huge Dump On Nerd Culture (or Let’s Get Hashtag Epic Fail Trending)
WARNING: This post is tl;dr and contains much snarkiness and nerdiness. I have used both the dictionary.com website and the app for a while now, mostly when I want a quick second opinion about a definition, and I am not…
Tagged with: annoyed, Blog, complaining, culture, dictionary.com, geek, humor, miscellaneous, nerd, random nonsense, satire, silliness, snarkiness, whining, writer, writing
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
Tea With The Drama Queen (or It’s Not A Tumor)
So I woke up this morning with a headache, so my first thought is, of course – brain tumor – because it couldn’t just be a headache. There must be some underlying, devastating cause for me to be in so…
Tagged with: Addiction, Caffeine, Cigarette, complaining, Health, inspirational, Nicotine, random nonsense, Smoking cessation, Substance Abuse, Tobacco, whining
Posted in Blog, Insidious Inspiration
Posted in Blog, Insidious Inspiration
The Five Stages Of Writing (or I Feel Your Pain)
Like dealing with grief, writing also has five stages. STAGE ONE – Caffeination Most writing begins with some sort of stimulant. Much writing is done late at night because writers are so easily distracted during the day and fail to…
Tagged with: Blog, books, comedy, complaining, cupcake, humor, miscellaneous, random nonsense, satire, silliness, snarkiness, truth, whining, writer, writing, Writing and Editing
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
I Get My First (Sort Of) Death Threat (or Google Is Skynet)
So after I posted yesterday, I went out looking for a job, because I just saw how much money wasn’t in my bank account. I took the bus downtown, because it’s impossible to park and it’s just a twenty-minute…
Tagged with: Aisha Tyler, Blog, comedy, cupcake, Felicia Day, Google+, humor, iPod, miscellaneous, podcast, random nonsense, silliness
Posted in 3(Blah) + 3(Yada) = (Blog), Blog
Posted in 3(Blah) + 3(Yada) = (Blog), Blog
Cleanup Your Act On Aisle Three (or Holiday Spirit Is Also Known As Rum)
It is important at this time of year to observe a few simple rules when shopping to avoid unnecessary delays and hurt feelings, so here is my seasonal shopping guide, or Modern Etiquette for the Socially Challenged Part Four Holiday…
Tagged with: annoyed, Christmas, Christmas and holiday season, comedy, complaining, Holiday, humor, miscellaneous, NyQuil, Opinions, random nonsense, Rum, satire, silliness, snarkiness, zombies
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Broken Hearts (Card Game)
In the spirit of doing completely random things, I am going to post the card game I invented in the late nineties, because I spent all of my blogging time cleaning out my closet. And yes, having a bunch of…
Tagged with: Card game, entertainment, Game, Hearts, Joker, miscellaneous, random nonsense
Posted in Blog, Just nerding out
Posted in Blog, Just nerding out
Verbatim Gibberish 
Spammers Aren’t Even Trying Anymore (or If You’re Going To Try To Screw Me, You Could At Least Buy Me Dinner)
So, I’m checking my blog stats today, because I’m {narcissistic|a responsible person|bored|compulsive}, and I notice that I’ve gotten twice as many spam comments as I have real comments from readers like you. On my other blog, that ratio is ten…
Posted in 3(Blah) + 3(Yada) = (Blog), Blog