Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

A Mild Electoral Spanking

Looks like Limbaugh (and yours truly) were a bit quick in making judgements in re: yesterday’s UK elections. Blair’s New Labour party ended up retaining its majority, albeit a significantly reduced one. Blair’s successor is waiting in the wings and…

What A Flaming Jerk.

It seems as though the “gentleman” who recently discovered a fingertip in his frozen custard refused to give the tip back to its rightful owner. Had he done so, doctors could have reattached it. This chucklehead (one “Clarence Stowers”) decided…

Why We Must Win

The following photo has been making the rounds of milblogs and right-of-center blogs: Picture released by the U.S. Army Tuesday, May 3, 2005 shows a U.S. Army soldier comforting a child fatally wounded in a car bomb blast in Mosul,…

Google Mini Review

As previously promised, I hereby present a mini review of the Google Mini. Installation The Mini came in a box conspicuously plastered with “Google” on every conceivable surface, which caused several engineers’ heads to turn as I lugged the box…

Punishing Labour?

I haven’t seen any confirmation of this on any of the reputable news sites, but Rush Limbaugh has made several statements over the last hour alluding to the fact that preliminary exit polling in the UK is indicating an unexpected…

Biblically Dense

In all my years of reading the Bible, attending Christian education and studying Church history, one fact always sort of floated around on the periphery of my understanding: Simon Peter (the Disciple) was married. I had never given it a…

WordPress Theming Help

If you’re a WordPress user in need of a new look for your blog and haven’t checked out Urban Giraffe’s WordPress Theme Dissection (parts two and three are also available), then you’re missing out on some valuable advice. If you’re…

Definitely Worthy Of The Fark “Hero” Tag

Loews theaters are going to begin publishing the actual start times of their movies (i.e., when the movie actually starts, not when all the obnoxious ante-film adverts run). Sweet. Now if only they didn’t charge friggin’ $10 a ticket…

Episode III Ponderables

Varifrank has gracioulsy offered Star Wars fans a list of 15 things to think about before seeing Episode III, featuring such pressing questions as: 13. Do they give lightsabers to Jedi because they are such bad shots with blasters that…