Why the media is screwed. This from the Associated Press, the world’s largest friggin’ news organization: Power loss at L.A. data center blamed for MySpace outage NEW YORK (AP) — The popular social-networking site MySpace.com suffered a pair of extended…

In my continuing series of sequels to posts that just don’t lend themselves to sequels, I’ve rethought the idea of quotation marks sounding sarcastic. I now think that quotation marks sound sarcastic even if you use them in the appropriate…

Partial quotation marks make everything sound like you’re making fun of it. It doesn’t even matter where the quotes are or whether you’re reading them or saying them out loud (when saying out loud you must do ‘air quotes’ to…

They asked me to stay another week. I think I’m going to yell. I thought I’d paid my final rent check, but no… The editor called me in and asked me if I could stay until the 12th. I couldn’t…

In my continuing series of sequels to posts that just don’t lend themselves to sequels, I have come up with a new puzzle for you all to wrack your heads on. This, if you’ll recall, is the original puzzle (I…

I once had an e-mail address I’d use for everything. This was back in the day where they gave you about fifty megabytes and expected you to deal with it. This was back when hotmail was HoTMaiL. This was before…

Somehow I was compared to this guy. Now, I’m not offended, I rather like his blog, but the comparison still struck me as odd. I haven’t been political on this blog since… Well, May 6th comes to mind, but the…

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I’m in the library study room, minding my own business watching a movie, reading a book, updating my blog and checking my e-mail (I multi-task). Two kids, no older than twelve, walk by. Five minutes later they walk by again…

Remember that guy that raped, murdered and ate the flesh of sixteen orphans last year? Yeah, well, he’s going around collecting money for UNICEF and I think we should do a nice feature story on him. (recoveries gone wrong) 2:…

Friday, while working on a page for Sunday, I came across a columnist that took credit for an internet list that was not his. Saturday, my managing editor told his boss about it. Sunday, the editor in chief looked up…

Pixel, Rick, Here is **the columnist**‘s response to my asking if he was the original author of the list for the Wal-Mart column … Unfortunately, I found the Wal-Mart list posted on Web sites dating to 1999 … One Web…

I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with…

I caught a plagiarist yesterday. A paid, local columnist (and retired journalist, no less), who included a list of things to do to pass the time while in Wal-Mart: When a guy goes to Wal-Mart with his wife, he has…

So I looked through a few fantasy novels the other day at my girlfriend’s place. She’s a lovely girl: beautiful, smart, funny, talented and well read. I can only assume that fantasy novels were the closest thing to crack she…

Foods not covered under the five-second rule: Pasta-based foods including lasagna, ravioli, hot pizza and any pastaish beverages. Soup. Liquid mercury, sulfuric acid and all other deadly materials. Liquids. Jello. Yogurt, pudding. Ice cream. Buffalo wings, ribs. Enchiladas. Cold cuts…