Archive for the 'Humor' Category

A Letter To My Cats & Dog

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Dear Cats and Dog,
The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate of food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that [...]

An evening’s entertainment

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

A few winters back when I was working as a support engineer, I was called to a job at an unusual religious sect’s mountain retreat. It was a complicated job and took me well into the evening. By then the snow had fallen and getting home would be difficult so they offered me [...]

Common computer terms

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Digging through some very old papers, I found a really old glossary of computer terms from the days of mainframe computing (the copy is have is data February 1977). Punched cards might be a thing of the past, but the spirit of those old programmers still lives on.

Computer
Device for transforming boring clerical operations into [...]