Category: Drivel

If you haven’t seen me lately (or ever) you might not realize I’ve lost some weight over the past year.  Back in the spring of 2006, I realized that one of the things holding back my recovery from my 2nd knee surgery was being too heavy (less weight means less stress on the joints, among… Continue reading weight loss progress

This is so funny, I just about busted my remaining stitches from laughing too hard.  I loved the “Clippy” segment. Pranks Calls….to phone sex girls!

Here’s some really cool news.  A really good book by one of my favorite authors is being made into a SciFi miniseries.  And George Clooney’s onboard, which means it’ll probably be good. Boing Boing: Clooney and SciFi making “Diamond Age” miniseries

I’m eating a salad at my desk at work, and my tongue just noticed that the sutures on the roof of my mouth are gone. Those are the ones holding together the flesh where they cut the strips off to sew onto my gums. I did get something crunchy in one of the bites of… Continue reading I think I just swallowed my stitches

I’m 90% sure that when it’s time to buy my next desktop computer, I’m going to buy another Apple. I don’t know if all models are this way, but my PowerMac (which I bought used nearly a year ago) is just so awesome. The design of the hardware itself is better than any other computer… Continue reading I still love my PowerMac

Here in Broomfield, we’re having a high temperature of 3 degrees Fahrenheit today. That’s darn cold! But I suppose it’s just as well, because today I had my gingival graft procedure done. That’s an outpatient surgery where they cut off flesh from the top of your mouth and sew it onto the gums somewhere. I… Continue reading a good day to stay inside

APA-WBA-200 Voicebox Waistband Speech Amplifier I’m not sure why, but this device really appeals to me.  I like megaphones, too.

Globes [online] – Heads roll at Polycom This article about firing employees says, in part, “The dismissals were done using the ‘American method’, meaning by a short laconic telephone message telling the employees that the company is no longer in need of their services.”  I wonder how that came to be known internationally as the… Continue reading Globes [online] – Heads roll at Polycom

I’m so pleased to say that my favorite one-page website is back online. Wonder what it means?  Maybe this will help.