Tag: fun
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: the longest journey :
That would be the one you take with a shopping cart. In the grocery store. You know the place. It’s the giant, sprawling edifice, the one that stocks everything from Armor All to greeting cards, but is out of whatever you went there to buy. No, let me rephrase that, they’re probably not out of…
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: what’s in your wallet? :
Capital One asks that all the time and it’s none of their damn business. But, what the heck, I’ll tell you — an insurance card, library and debit cards, eight dollars, my driver’s license, and a Bazooka comic — with a fortune that says I’m destined for the Olympic swimming team. Except for Bazooka Joe, I…
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: don’t look up :
Lately all manner of paraphernalia has been dropping from the sky: satellites, asteroids, thirty horrifying inches of snow. What in the world is going on? The UARS satellite came crashing to earth in September, landing in a remote area of the South Pacific, southwest of Christmas Island. Sounds like a merry place to land, doesn’t…
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: crash goes the computer :
It was an afternoon just like any other, I was at my compuCRASH. Surprise! Down went the hard drive. My trusty old computer is no longer so trusty — well, it never has been. This is the fourth damn hard drive that’s crashed. But since it was the fourth one to go down in flames,…