Dear Reader, To begin with, can we stop using the word Dear. Dear means beloved, precious, priceless, or rare. I don’t have that kind of relationship with my phone company, nor do I want one. We can still be friends,…
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Greetings and Salutations (and Other Insincere Forms of Expression)
Tagged with: annoyed, comedy, complaining, culture, Happy New Year, humor, lose weight now, miscellaneous, random nonsense, silliness, snarkiness, truth, whining
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting, Word Nerd
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting, Word Nerd
Bathroom Humour (or Sanitized For Your Protection)
I’ve found a new low in etiquette, and it’s people who put others on speakerphone in public washrooms. Yes, that has happened to me on more than one occasion. Thank you, kind sir, for putting me in the embarrassing position…
Tagged with: annoyed, Bathroom, comedy, complaining, humor, miscellaneous, Public toilet, random nonsense, silliness, Sink, Skynet, Toilet, whining
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Expressing Yourself in the Age of Consumerism
With a computer in nearly every home in the industrialized world, instant access to a worldwide repository of visual images, and freely available software to manipulate those pictures, it was only a matter of time before people started making dumb…
Tagged with: Felicia Day, Folk art, Guild, humor, miscellaneous, opinion, photoshop, random nonsense, silliness, Wil Wheaton
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
Putin vs. Poutine (or The Gentrification of Fast Food and the Third World War)
So, you can tell a lot about a person by the kind of cheese they eat. If you look in the average person’s fridge, you’re going to find some mozzarella and cheddar, maybe some swiss or parmesan. Perhaps you live…
Tagged with: comedy, fast food, geek, humor, lose weight now, miscellaneous, nerd, random nonsense, silliness, technology
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
We Appreciate Your Feedback (or No Experience Needed)
So, I haven’t had a good rant in a while, so here goes. I recently took to the web in search of a new job, and I came across some corporate pages that made me want to chuck my mouse…
Tagged with: annoyed, complaining, Human resources, humor, miscellaneous, Pop-up ad, random nonsense, Résumé, silliness, snarkiness, technology, Website, whining
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Putting the Argument to Rest
Originally posted on Foil & Phaser:
Since I helped create this site in part as a home for leftover stories from The Sword Laser Anthology submissions, it would be a little hypocritical if I didn’t put one of my own…
Tagged with: Fantasy, horror, humor, random nonsense, science fiction, short story
Posted in Blog, Fiction
Posted in Blog, Fiction
You’re Going to Have To Do Better Than That
If you’re like me, sometimes it can be a little hard to get motivated. All too often this: can feel like this: But then I got to thinking that maybe it’s not me, it’s them. There’s a whole segment of…
Tagged with: comedy, humor, miscellaneous, random nonsense, satire, snarkiness
Posted in Blog, Insidious Inspiration
Posted in Blog, Insidious Inspiration
May the Fourth Strikes Back
Tagged with: comedy, entertainment, geek, humor, May the Forth Be with You, miscellaneous, random nonsense, silliness, Star Wars
Posted in Blog, Just nerding out
Posted in Blog, Just nerding out
Verbatim Gibberish 
The Next Big Thing in Social Media (or Find Out Who Your Real Friends Are)
So, I have the next great idea for social media. It’s a site where everyone can post to it except the person who it’s about. It’s like the complete opposite of Facebook where it’s all about you. There will be…
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting