Category: Holiday


  • Hope you have a great day!

  • Pi Day

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    Anyone doing anything for Pi Day? Its dart night… so I guess I’ll be tossing darts at a round board. 🙁

  • This is someting my friends have been into for years. International Talk Like A Pirate Day: International Talk Like a Pirate Day isn’t one o’ those governmentally sanctioned holidays that shifts around to create a convenient three-day weekend. No, the date is ALWAYS Sept. 19 (Cap’n Slappy’s ex-wife’s birthday.) Though apparently the inventors were on…

  • Alone for VD

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    People who happen to not be dating someone stand out on Valentine’s Day, I think. I have known women who freaked out over the thought that they might be alone for it. Those are only a handful, thankfully. Most people I know who have no significant other just mope and grumble all day long. I…

  • Valentine’s

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    All of the emails begging me to join their singles site does not surprise me. It is Valentines. Single people like me are supposed to get uber-depressed that we do not have anyone in our lives. The upswing in divorce lawyer emails does surprise me.  

  • Merry Christmas

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    Merry Christmas everyone!

  • Even the Chinese beat Columbus and Magellan. Zhang He sailed around the world about 1421 according to historian Menzies. I will have to pick up his book when it is published. I’ve never been a fan of Columbus Day. I think the Norse beat him across the Atlantic centuries earlier.  

  • We knew this would happen sometime. The Internet reached its peak in 1999. Survey: Internet shrinks as domain numbers fall. Fewer domains were registered than not renewed. Guard-IE handles cookies, web bugs, pop-ups, and their ilk. Very innobtrusive. Think I could actually buy this one.

  • Long weekends are the best. Can kick back and do nothing until the holiday! Course, when I get back to work I still have to battle installing Front Page Extensions on the new web server. Hmmmmmm… maybe the trick is to clear out the data I have so meticulously massaged to be correct on the…