I bid you farewell, Bob Keeshen, AKA Captain Kangeroo. You introduced me to Bill Cosby and were a nice bumper between Romper Room and Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood. I enjoyed the ping pong balls falling on your head. You also allowed me to start my very own urban legend about Mr. Greenjeans that I discovered had gone worldwide when a German acquaintence of mine re-told me, almost verbatim, the story I had started nearly 25 years ago. Aegix has a posse!

Did I ever tell you I used to be a hacker for an ultra-right wing organization? "Ultra-right wing" in terms that the John Birch Society is a bunch of pathetic, liberal cowards right wing. As in, "We Don't Pay Taxes And All Of That Money We Save From Doing So Goes Into Stockpiling Weapons" sort of philosophy. Now, I didn't "hack" in terms of I infiltrated the IRS and deleted all the sensitive data on these guys from their databases, but merely wrote little programs that did things like tra...

Do you know me? I've been on TV. Well, almost on TV, but I am a celebrated actor. "Celebrated" in that I won the coveted "Best Battlefield Death of an Anonymous Soldier" voted on by the ragtag group of equally anonymous Confederate boys who re-enacted The Battle of Arnoldsburg. Which is, actually, quite esteemed considering I was merely a kid trying to get a SAG card riding shotgun with Guys Who Do This Stuff All The Time, or "re-enactment enthusiasts." When I was shot, I jerked my head b...

"The Salvation Army said Tuesday that it will receive a bequest of at least $1.5 billion, the largest gift of its kind, from the estate of Joan Kroc, widow of hamburger king Ray Kroc. " -- Reuters Does this mean they'll knock off the FUCKING INCESSANT bell ringing for now on?

I'm wearing two pagers today and a cell phone. I can be contacted anywhere, by anybody. I have more responsibility than you. I am gadgetlicious. Let me show you how: Do you know when the transaction logs for your development server databases are more than 15 minutes late? No? I do. What about any event log warning message? Do you get those? Do you get to interrupt conversations with a "Hold up. Let me see what this is." Read the message. Delete said messag...

Ok, so this is the proverbial "Hello World" portion of a new blog...something all developers understand instantly. It's necessary, yet everybody wants to move past it as quickly as possible. Now that I have my own little place in the world to be a witty word exhibitionist, I'm strangely at a loss. There will be more later. Whether that is a vitae of sorts or a Playmate-esque listing of favorite turn-ons and whatnot. Assignment: Make up a name of band and post it under Comments. Sorry, "The ...