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Draft?

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Is a full-fledged draft far away? CNN Headline: Army to recall former military members:

The Army is preparing to notify about 5,600 retired and discharged soldiers who are not members of the National Guard or Reserve that they will be involuntarily recalled to active duty for possible service in

IE Sucks

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Want a few reasons why Internet Explorer sucks? Give this a look.

And here’s a good reason to use Firefox as your browser of choice:

As far as supporting W3C standards, Firefox far exceeds the leading browser, Internet Explorer, in complying with the rules. While no browser is

Nervous Repair

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

So, I’m sitting here fiddling around while the repair people are putting in my new A/C. I don’t think it’s a good thing when you hear one repair guy say to another one “I’m open to suggestions.”

Sweat!

Saturday, June 12th, 2004

My A/C just died. In summer. In Texas. Yeah. Pity me!

I just signed quick-loan-shark-type papers to borrow $4520 so I can get a new A/C installed this Tuesday. If I hadn’t just purchased a new computer last week, I could have put it in my credit card. I got 90 …

Still Dead

Thursday, June 10th, 2004

This just in: Ronald Reagan still dead. I swear, I’m more sick of the man now than I was after dealing with having him for my President for eight years. To counterbalance all the knee-jerk, “the man is dead now, so we must praise him” press that’s going on, here …

Low Culture

Monday, June 7th, 2004

Hee! Actually, there’s a lot of fun stuff at that site – you might want to click around.

Taped Chair

Sunday, June 6th, 2004

Vintage chairs, even those with fabric in good shape, are apparently not meant to have double sided sticky tape put on them in an attempt to stop cats from scratching them. I think the tape’s done more damage than the cats have.

Ininite Cat

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

This site is fun in a “why am I still clicking and looking at this, but I can’t seem to stop” kind of way.