Tag: Miscellanea

  • Epic Mail Merge Fail

    I received a mass-mailed (via U.S. Mail) invitation to purchase window blinds – lots of them – today. The recipient on the label was: Cottrell Edward Michael Etal Cottrell Edward Michael Etal FAIL.

  • House Pictures

    As promised, here are pictures of our new home. Enjoy!

  • Editing Fail

    Forget bloggers and the economy; this is why newspapers are going under left and right. Go on; try to count the grammatical errors.  (Try not to be distracted by the incredibly scuzzy Uncle Sam figure or the strange logical errors.) If the reader has to have a good understanding of a topic to comprehend a…

  • Susan Boyle – I’m Impressed

    I decided to jump on the bandwagon and check out the Susan Boyle Britain’s Got Talent performance on YouTube. I was not expecting much, based on my impression of most TV-talent show successes… wow. That is a challenging song, and to sound that good in a YouTube clip… I’m impressed.

  • Life Lesson #53,987

    If you buy a $79 2-cycle, no-name weed eater, one fine Saturday it will half-explode on you, sending you to Home Depot to buy the $200, 4-cycle, no-mix, brand-name model. Buy the latter first – there’s a lower likelihood of shrapnel that way.