Doug

Doug

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

FYI

This is not how my wife and I are preparing for the arrival of our child. Although jackhammers do concern me, come to think of it.

To All My Clemson Readers

It seems as if Rob over at Say Anything is beset by a snobby Lefty troll bent on besmirching the good name of your fair state. To wit: Like most GOPers, Sanford looks at his base and panders to them.…

Ummm….

This might be a personal choice issue, but, all things considered, I’d really rather that my urinals not have hands. Egah.

Good News, Everyone!

I have an exciting announcement to make: As Brad already alluded to, my wife and I are expecting our first child this October. We are extremely excited (so much so that some of us have been known to throw up…

What Timing!

No sooner do I post about Best Buy (cbtn) then I notice a thread on Fark pointing to this Gizmodo entry (pointing to this AnandTech forum thread which, in turn, reprints a Baltimore Sun article that the Sun website puts…

Mailing List Humo[u]r

I’m a member of more-than-a-few mailing lists with rather high daily message counts and about once a month or so, some list novice will step in and commit the cardinal sin of all Usenet/mailing list sins: top-posting. Top-posting is, as…

This Really Brings Me Back

Back in grade school/middle school, all the geeks cool kids had two things: 1) a Nintendo Entertainment System and 2) a subscription to Nintendo Power. Filled to the brim with tips, tricks, reviews, previews and cheat codes, each bi-monthly issue…