Sometimes these little snippets in the Washington Post’s Animal Watch are priceless:
24TH STREET NE, 3100 block, Sept. 18. A woman saw a squirrel in her house, but it disappeared. When she noticed a lump under her bedsheets, she assumed it was the animal, placed a flowerpot over it, weighed the pot down with books and called animal control. An officer discovered that the lump was a pair of pantyhose.
My first graphics job was using an electronic typesetter — using codes to control the layout, no WYSIWYG. (In retrospect, it prepared me for HTML.) AT&T’s implementation makes me want to throw something [more...]
Thom points out the announcement of the 2006 model year Prius, igniting once again that flame of necessity in my early-adopter brain. I had to have the original model back in 2000 before anyone else, and was pretty [more...]
I wonder who does the voice for the Taco Bell (and now, GEICO) chihuahua? I’d like to hire that guy to do the automated attendant prompts on the voice mail system in my office instead of the irritatingly cheerful [more...]
