Category: Miscellaneous Musings

A friend sent me this article about an English town’s hunt for a rogue squirrel that had been terrorizing the local population. I think that’s probably the same squirrel somebody sent me a picture of a while ago.

I think I’m going to become a loyal fan of the UK hockey team. A few years ago, they were trying to create a poster that would get a lot of attention. One of the basketball team’s most famous fans is Kentucky native Ashley Judd. Somebody on the team roomed with her cousin, and suggested… Continue reading Hockey, anyone?

Somebody asked me today whether the "Tatertown" in my email signature is a real place. I get that query occasionally, and have an answer filed away that I send whenever anybody inquires. I’ve been contemplating putting it on a web page. This seems like a good place for it; now I can just give people… Continue reading Tatertown

I keep a stash of dog biscuits in my car, and each morning, as I leave for work, each of my buddies gets a treat. This morning, I reached in and pulled out three biscuits, and my system needed a manual override to put the third back in the bag.

Speaking of Wired News, another of their headlines made me do a double take this morning. They had an interesting article about how Viagra has helped the endangered species population by reducing the demand for animal parts used in traditional aphrodisiac recipes. I was somewhat amused by their headline: \"Viagra Swells Scarce Animal Count\", along… Continue reading Umm … Was that Intentional?

Two days of rain doesn’t make very good gravedigging conditions. But this morning, there was no doubt that it was time to say goodbye to Frodo. Although he had been showing minor signs of age for some time, he was still full of energy and life until last night, when he was having difficulty standing… Continue reading Farewell, Faithful Friend Frodo

It’s getting to be the season for ghosts and goblins. To get in the spirit for spirits, here’s a small collection of Halloween humor that I have accumulated from various sources.

I do believe it’s finally Fall in the Bluegrass. Today was gorgeous. Weather forecasters have issued our first frost advisory for tonight. I switched on the heat at home, although it’s not cool enough for it to kick in yet; I’ve gotten too old to wake up freezing because it was still warm the day… Continue reading ‘Tis the Season

One of the reasons I’ve been so grouchy lately is that I have inherited support for UK’s recent installation of IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager, after the co-worker who had been responsible for it got so sick of it he quit to become an anthropologist. This is a product that is so crappy that the vendor’s… Continue reading It Ain’t THAT Good

You can count on Dave Barry to provide bloggable material. “I’m not making this up” is his common lead-in to a story that’s so bizarre nobody could possibly have made it up.