Super Mutant Soup

Oh no... The beast has returned. I haven't dived into a video game coma for what I believe is over a year. I've been away. I've been in the garage playing with my power tools. Creating objects to make my house a bit more functional or my pocketbook a bit less scrawny. Regardless I've been creating blister, calluses and gathering skills and tools to my ever expanding domain. Something changed. I

Look! Stupid Pictures!

Yeah! It seems my exhaustion has addled my brain. What was that? It was always this way?Saving a few bucks on airfare...You tell him he looks stupid. Well? Go on!Ballet never seemed this interesting to me...You tell me what this one means, cause I'm not sure.

Exhaustion

This is the fist morning in what seems like an eternity without coffee. Here I am at almost 1:00 wondering how I'm suppose to get through the next 5 hours. Today, starting at Cisco configs is like holding up the world. I suddenly feel quite bad for Altlas. Poor soul. Though unlike Atlas, I have no merciful Perseus willing to exchange information for a quick release from my suffering. Ah for

Vintage Computer Ads

So... did you clear a warehouse for the server?Talk About User Friendly!Portable? With a back brace...You're going to love all the wasted man hours!Bargins Galore!Compact? Seriously?If Bill said it, I believe it and that's that!I love the idea that this was 'micro' anything!Very nice! Yes, the computer too..

20 Things I've Learned From Thanksgiving

Turkey size? Go big.A healthy Thanksgiving diner is a creation of the devil.The table space is precious. Don't waste it on foul food.Stuffing. It's not just a suggestion.If it weren't for family, Thanksgiving would be perfect.You only get one vacation day for Christmas, but two for Thanksgiving.Why? Because your pants don't fit and the management wouldn't approve 'Naked Friday.'After the meal,

Withdrawals

I've got it all, dry mouth, shaky hands, bloodshot eyes and intense stomach pains. I recently have been searching out my pleasure. Seeking it at stores and living vicariously through the stories of others. Wondering when and how my next fix will come and not knowing if I'll be able to contain myself. I know I'm gaming addict, but I thought I could break it on my own. I've gone weeks without any

Craft Show

"Where have you been man?""Crafting and stuff. You know.""Hum, no. No I have no idea what you mean. What the hell is 'crafting'""You know, crafting and beading and stuff. You know making stuff.""Like toaster doilies?""See I told you, man. You know.."So I've been a little busy. I was invited to a crafts fair last weekend. Many of you out there just glazed over. You're comatose, staring blankly at

Signs Of The Time 2

Lock your doors & secure your valuables, the police are around!It's nice to know where you're headed!Eh?!If your not already mad about dying, we're going to fine your dead behind!No Doubt!Signs Of the TimeSigns of the Time 3Signs of the Time 4

Craiglist Pranks

Sweet Freaking Mercy! I cannot believe I've left this place dormant for over a month. It appears the at the well of random thought has dried up. Not so. Nay, never......Okay well that's about all I have to say. I've been thinking. That's right, lock your doors and put earmuffs on the youngsters! I give a way a fair amount of stuff on Craigslist. It cool to put something on my driveway, post my

International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2009

Arrr! It be that time of year again me hearties. So dawn your peg legs and pray for a scurvy end to all your foes.Get your Pirate Name!!I be Pantin' Harley StrawNow learn the Pirate Alphabet! Load up with RUM. Now it's time to sing!

Korobushka Stuck Again...

Sometimes I get this song stunk in my head for no good reason. I Feel like playing Tetris now...I thought I'd pass along the favour!For the curious

20 Things I Learned From Training

There are two types of training, bad training and needed training. I've never witnessed good trainingTraining instructors are rarely the cream of the cropWhen in training it's considered polite not to fall asleepThis is sometimes unavoidable Training instructor jokes, laughing only encourages more. AKA Don't feed the bearsTrainers who know anything are few and far between. Don't bet that yours

Clippings 2

Some more fun newspaper clippings I've found. Definitely worth a few moments of your afternoon...I suppose this is just very thorough.Sounds okay to me...$3.50 reward? Clearly the man did something bad!Central Heating?!Sorry for this one...Oops. Our bad!The games criminals play...I can't think of anything that would add to this, gold metal classifieds listing. Pulitzer. Seriously. Loves kids. He

Lazy Thursday Blues: Caption 28

Got The Lazy Thursday Blues? Well I've got the cure. It's Caption Thursday! I'll provide a picture and you provide the caption.As always we need to adhere to good taste. Please keep it clean.Here's the one to get it started:You sold the last tickle me ELMO!?Here's the one to get it started:When did you say your mothers getting back?Found on the Internet:1.) Super Mario Brother Thank You Generator

Clippings

Some fun newspaper clippings I've found. Definitely worth a few moments of your afternoon...With a little extra sauce, they serve up quite nice!Clearly a chance to finally understand a language!Coincidence? I'm sure...I think this was just an elaborate employment drive...How could they possibly tell that?!"I knew when I saw the rolling pin, that something bad was going to go down."um, okay...my

Ask A Geek - Illuminati

Q- Makolyte -Does "Illuminati" really exist?Thanks for the question, Makolyte! I think the answer to this question has many facets. Like a diamond, only lacking in beauty, monetary value or extreme longevity. Basically none of the good stuff, but only the tedious parts. Regardless, I will do my best to answer it. So, lets see...Is there an all powerful organization controlling world events and

Ask A Geek

If anyone would like to submit a question answered from a geeks point of view, I would welcome answering it. Questions would be best to not be geeky by nature (That will be my job) You'll see once we get a few done.You may also submit it anonymously if you don't want to be roasted or embarrassed.

Signs Of The Time

A quick collection of funny signs for your browsing enjoyment!Signs of the Time 2Signs of the Time 3Signs of the Time 4

Would You Ranch This?

Well I was sitting here thinking... Never a good plan, but regardless. I was sitting here thinking, ranch dressing is amazing! Ranch is basically the new ketchup (or catsup. Not that I understand why it has two spellings... maybe we'll tackle that another day.)Anyway I began wondering what I would feel strange putting ranch on, and what I wouldn't even think about. So here is a little game called

The Cleanup Approaches!

I've been re-doing all the firewall configs here in my office. It's one of those tasks that I was hoping to put off for about trillion years or so. This is due to many factors, but I can boil it down to a handful. First off the original setup was contrived by an ex-CIA director who was being overpaid to come up with security, for the Pentagon, when security for the Mini Mart would have sufficed.

Don't Ask Don't Tell

Starcraft II... No really, we are making it. Seriously. Just wait longer...

Rebellion

Yes, there are pictures. No...never. Honestly. Not ever.

The Idea Spark

It's amazing to me sometimes what can spark an idea. Creativity will sometimes come from the most obscure places. The reality is that many of my best ideas come to me while I think about something else entirely. I'm sure many of you are the same. Example. I'm driving down the road the other day, stuck in an unbelievable traffic jam. This traffic jam was caused by one hundred and twenty four

So Tired

I'm so tired. I'd thought I'd try and do a quick random typing post in a effort to wake up my brain. Basically the formula is such: I type whatever pops into my head. I make no edits or apologies. You can then read it or not. So from this point on, spell check only.So I had a hot food night last week. The point was simple. People came over, said "happy birthday" and ate hot food. My wife and her

Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

Trust me. Robots aren't your friends...

Honesty

"I couldn't agree with you more. Absolutely.

Smiling Cow

Dude, I'm getting the cleaver...

Your Opinion

"Seriously, my brain was trying to save me by setting me free!"

Contest Results!

So we officially have a winner for the Satchel! But first I would like to thank everyone who played! I'm sure that with all the Internet scams more than a few came, and left. Oh well. They simply helped your chances!So first off we had two runners up to the big prize that was awarded. Those two were: Joshua & Mark The names where drawn at random by my wife and three year old daughter from a Greek

KludgeSpot GiveAway!

My how we have grown. I have the opportunity to do something I've never done before. Give away a free product to a Kludge Spot reader!The good folks at CNS Office Furniture have graciously donated a prize to a lucky Kludge Spot reader. What they're giving away:Skooba Laptop Satchel:Fits most 17” screen laptops15+ pockets and compartments Accessory organizer for phone, gadgets and moreThe CNS

Picking Fights On The Internets

If you have any sort of Internet exposure, I'm sure that you've found someplace, somewhere in the vastness of the web to express your self. Regardless if the place be Reddit, Digg, Facebook, or the Northwest Knitting Club's Chat Forum, you've no doubt seen the flame war.It always starts off so...innocently. Someone somewhere makes a remark, and this dude, can't let it go. Seriously, all it takes

20 Things That I Just Don't Get

Girl colors. Red, blue and green. After that, I'm totally out of my league.Running. Unless someone is chasing me, this seems like a pointless endeavor.(with apologies to Mr. Parrish)Holding the bacon. If you're going to get cheese and avocado on your burger then order fries and a side of fried zucchini. then the bacon is the least of your concerns. Sporting Stats. If the game was so boring that

One Bottle Of Uncomfortable

I feel like a fish out of water, I’m scared as I walk around. Everything in sight is foreign. The population here eyes me with suspicion. They know I don’t belong. Can they see the fear in my eyes? “Can I help you?” queries the local“I’m not sure,” I say “I think I’m okay…I’ll just look around a bit”“Okay but I just wanted to let you know,” The over-bubbly clerk continues,“Body sprays are half

When Chocolate Comes Calling

When chocolate comes calling, I find that I'm almost always home. It's not at all like Brussels Sprouts or even waffles, which I find I can say no to most of the time. Chocolate is something quite different, like the lucky street salesman, who happens to have the product that everyone actually wants."Knock Knock""Hello?""Yes, I'm selling...""I'll take it all!""I haven't even told you what I'm

An Empty Hat Hook

While trudging through a new book storeI saw a hat hook. Nothing moreApparently used just for showOn a pillar by the fiction row. I looked it over once, then twiceOf antiqued brass it once was niceBut why here this poor neglected bitFor I could see no use of itWho hangs a hat near Bear or Clarke?Why should here it make its mark?I swear I found no use or function For a hat hook at this junction"So

Exceptionalism

Sherlock and Mycroft are brothers, both are exceptional but as in life, one candle outshines the other. Throughout their childhood one was always more capable, more insightful and more observing than the other. That's right, Sherlock was always second fiddle.For those of you not familiar with the Sherlock Holmes stories, allow me to shed a little light. Sherlock's brother appeared in a couple of

The Unexpected

I love this picture. If anyone knows the photo credit for it, I'd love to link to them!

Class

Everyone has class. Some peoples' are just higher than others

Blind Date

Think I should open the doors for her, or does she enjoy the popping sound they make as she rips them off their hinges?

Juniper Roots

Juniper bushes love work. They love the look in your eyes, when you first arrive at them with all that determination and gumption set on a face with that squared jaw defiance!"You are going down. I am master of my domain and you are a mangy old ground bush. I've got superior leverage with my tools and superior intelligence with my big honking brain. I've been staring at your ugly form for four

Frisbees Are Evil - Repost

Sometimes I refind a post after a couple of years, and like it enough to repost. This is just such a post. Enjoy, this Kludge Classic!Over the 4th of July a number of us went to Spring Lake and had a picnic. It was nice, I got some sun, Dew and fried chicken. I also gained a valuable bit of information. Frisbees do not follow directions well, and they seem to have a nasty bent on making people

Rookie Moves

Last night the remote went missing. Not just the simple, "where the heck did I put that thing?" You know what I'm talking about, you get up, turn around twice and there it is, right next where you were sitting, "must have slid off the sofa arm or something." This was nothing like that! This was an all out loss. I stood up turned around twice and looked in by the sofa arm. Nothing. I checked over,

Chasing Credits

I'm a gamer. I game. That is to say I engage in an expensive form of immersible fantasy for one goal. Credits. I crave a good game, enjoyable play and engaging storyline, but above all, I'm in to win. I suppose it's just my nature. I want to see it through to the end. I have, for no other reason than completing it, spent the last 200+ hours of my gaming time on a game called Morrowind. I traipsed

Meat Lovers Afterlife

I have seen the afterlife. It is called Espetus. In fact I was there for about and hour and a half. Additionally, considering that it was most obviously a slice of heaven the price for admission was such that anyone willing to spend a small wad of dough, could eat eight pounds of meat in relative comfort. Seriously this place was amazing! I didn't really know what to expect, besides the fact that

The Bacon Assault

What other choice did I have?!Thanks again to Mr Matt Boyd for keeping me in the loop on all the lastest bacon happenings!

Star Trek - Lost Again

** Spoiler alert ** If you haven't seen the most recent Star Trek movie, be warned, spoilers will be forthcoming.** Spoiler alert ** Ahem. I would consider myself a pretty hardcore Star Trek fan. See below ChartFigure 1.1The first marker, "closet fan" cares nothing about important things like the continuity of the Star Trek universe or the simple lack of understanding that the 6th season DS9

Giving Blood

I gave blood on Saturday. It's a easy thing for me and therefore I like to do it. It's not easy for everyone and those that are afraid of needles need not apply. We all have our fears. If I had to give blood in a butterfly tent or via a bee sting, I would never do it. All that just to say, I'm not a afraid of needles, so giving blood is only about finding the free time.Anyway... After the tech

The End Of Days

The end of the day is the best partIs it odd that we feel that way?While much of it gone from the daybreakThere's still truth in what I do sayGone to meetings with managers droningTheir deadlines and pie charts galoreWhile no one is listening or caringAll they hear is "We want some more!"Gone to users who stand in my door frameWith issues that "Must be solved fast!"Foreheads wrinkled without

Quizes 2.0

Some Mindless Quizes! For funWhat would you taste like to a cannibal? Not a gourmet meal, but certainly tasty enough to eat!How long could you survive trapped inside your kitchen freezer? This seems promisingHow worldly are your tastes?Turns out I've still got more to experience!The Caffeine Click Test - How Caffeinated Are You?A Vibrating Crackhead? No news there.Let me know how you fare.

Control

The sad looking man in the minivan drove by me with all his windows down blaring his hard rock music. I smiled as I pulled the mail from my post box. The smile was as if to say, "I know you want the world to think you're in control of your life, but we all know the truth. The truth is you were sent out to the store by your wife after low fat milk, goldfish crackers and a variety pack of mixed

Chipjacking

Sometimes you just get that carbohydrates craving!

Chips & Salsa

Someone brought in chips and salsa to the office yesterday. I suppose I could stop there, because for me this explains everything. many of you will not understand, so I will try again. It's like, "I ran a thousand mines yesterday and at the finish line was a table with chips and salsa." Does that make more sense? Maybe not. Lets try again.Let us setup a game. "Would You For Chips & Salsa?" It's

Popping Corn

"What you do not smell is called light nonfat butter flavored instant microwaveable popcorn. It is tasteless and dissolves into a sticky oatmeal like paste in water. It's main purpose is to make your mind yearn for something that is akin to the greasy oily popcorn served in movie establishments. You know, the kind loaded with salt and butter that makes your complexion breakout in a billion greasy

Cloakrooms

I enjoyed the random typing post so much I've decided to do another one. Okay, here goes. I'm just going to let whatever thought pops into my head out for all the world to see. This is glimpse into my brain, or a warning not to read on. Whichever you prefer. Only spell check beyond this point.I found a random word generator. Very cool stuff, the word that came back was cloakroom. I know what a

The Awesome Box & Expensive Socks

I own an awesome box. The outside has an awesome picture and exciting specs. Inside this awesome pictured box lives an awesome card. On this awesome card inside this awesome pictured box is joy. That joy is contained in 9600GT card with 2GB of onboard RAM and screaming fast GPU. All of this is sitting on my desk, gathering dust, loaded with potential and covered with large gaming tears. I have

Random Typing

This is a random typing experiment. I'm just typing whatever pops into my head. You have been warned. There will be only spell check beyond this point. I've been thinking recently. I wanted to post a thing or two about snarl. Sometimes things that at first seem so complex turn out to be less so. There are few instances that I'm aware of more relevant than computing.Look at it as a whole. Small

Reality

A young elven archer finds himself flung at the feet of a processing official just off a boat from some, unknown destination. I'm told that I a special, and that I must find my way in this world. It's a foreign place, full of things that I've never encountered before. Like the insect transportation infrastructure, lizard people slaves, elven drug traffickers and some half cat woman who wants to

Death Of A Friend

My friend and companion for many a long campaign has died. Together, we rid the world of dark wizards, waring tribes, and even completed the occasional word puzzle. Together we changed the course of many a planets history, raised a few million pylons, turrets and laser towers. In addition we also decapitated many guests that came to my house in search of 'a good time'. We've fought back the

From the Editors Desk: Breakout

Gentle Reader;This is a self serving post. That is to say, a self fulling profissey (Yes, that's really my first attempt at the word prophesy. I wonder why the Firefox spell checker just looked at it, blinked twice then blew its own brains out with a cannon. Did I mention I have trouble with spelling?) Anyway. The point of this post is just a quick revelation. This is first month since October of

Apple Woof

I'm feeling sick. Let me start off by stating that. I find that this statement can sometimes forgive a lot of otherwise unusual action. That being said, I probably would have sent the below email had I not been sick. We have a large recycling barrel in our area, which had the words "Apple Woof" printed on the side of it.I have always assumed this to be a typo, and Apple Wood was intended. Either

Pork

"Why are there other kinds of meat available?"

Geek Encounters

Yesterday my wife and I found ourselves with a night off, thanks to my mother volunteering to babysit. We arrived downtown a bit early for our movie and decided to pop into the local book store to burn up some time. Patricia headed off into one section by I lingered behind in the sci-fi aisle. All this recent talk about science fiction, sort of got me thinking that I might like to try something

20 Signs You're A Star Wars Addict

You can spend the day in hours of conversation with nothing except lines from "A New Hope".You've accually tried this.Your life sized Boba Fett cutout will always have a place of honor in your bedroom.Regardless of your wife's protests. All your dinner ware is George Lucas approved Star Wars merchandise.You try to use the force on a daily basis. "Is it flowing through me yet?"Any day, you expect

E-mail Levity

As a network administrator I find myself sending out lots of e-mails to all staff.Network outages, software updates, warning messages and other tedious stuff like that. Generally these are vastly boring messages. There is only one thing worse than receiving boring all staff email that you just delete. Spending 15 minutes typing up boring all staff e-mails that just get deleted. So... I've decided

Geeking Out

It's not a bad setup... I still thinks there's room for improvement though. For one thing we need to re-install with Linux.

The Return of Sci-Fi

It's funny, but I wasn't sure I could ever live in a world where Star Trek was off the air. I have come to the realization, that it's okay. Star Trek was my sole definition of Sci-Fi through most of my teenage years. I had yet to discover the joys of reading books by Asimov, Bear, Bradbury and the occasional Crichton. By the way, if you have never experienced Asimov's Foundation series, stop

Sci-Fi Addict

Yeah... I'm addicted to Sci-Fi. Here's wishing for another canceled series I can get hooked on. Firefly, The 4400. Eureka? (please don't do it...)

Geeky Things...

...I've Never Done I've never been to LinuxWorld (Not for lack of trying though...next year!) I've never played a traditional, non computer based, RPG. (I'm a little short on geeky friends...okay, a lot short) I've never modded my computer case. (Unless you count the time, I built and ran my computer without a case...) I have no geeky tattoos (I think I'd like a Tux on my shoulder) I've never

So You Wanna Be A Geek?

It's funny to see this trend emerging again. The trend where people with no geeky claim whatsoever want to come into the fold.I recall this happening in the late 90's as well. The tech market was booming and people that had spent their whole lives as geek haters suddenly wanted to join up. And so the paper tigers flanked our ranks and pretended to understand us. They were easy to spot. In shape,

Computer Tech Countdown

About a decade ago, I worked as a computer tech behind the counter of a big box retailer. I wore my blue shirt and khaki pants for about a year, and in that time I saw some crazy stuff. Here's a quick countdown of some of my favorite. 10. Wireless Power. Lady called the shop after she bought her first computer. Got it home no lights. Talked through a load of stuff, until she finally mentioned "

Geeks, Nerds & Dorks

The definitive guide of similarities and differences.I only had so much room, feel free to add your own conclusions!

20 Things I learned From Microsoft

Microsoft Windows - "Crashing hard drives and bogging down boot times since 1985."We have the solution, but only if we caused the problem.We don't have to care, we're Microsoft.The Windows registry is a place of Dark Magic. Avoid it if you can.Windows. It looks like an Apple, but without all that nasty "Ease of use" and "Functionality" garbage.If you do have trouble (and you will) just reboot.

The Return

This is Kludge Spot. The place where the inconsequential is king. It isn't the place were I ramble on about woodworking. I'm working on some new posts and darn if I'm not determined to keep this place up to date. I've now got a Woodworking blog where I can spout on about that particular branch of my personality. If you're interested you can visit it The Wood Mangler.If not, stay right here. I'm

So Much To So Few

I do love blogging. Somedays it's hard to think of anything of substance to put type out, a day like today. I still feel like typing though. So... Lets talk about crystals. No... Yetis. Yes! Let talk about Yetis.Sam was a yeti, the trouble was he didn't like te taste of villagers. The villagers didn't seem to mind this too much, oddly enough, though the rest of the yetis did mind. "Sam, what is

Letter to 2009

Dear 2009;Yuck. Nasty, real nasty. Yes sir, that really stunk, I mean that was some pretty foul stuff there my newly appointed friend. I am of course referring to your predecessor good old 2008. I had pretty high hopes for 2008. 2008 took them all, covered them with refuge and left them out in the hot sun to soar and decay. Thanks alot 2008. Those were only my hopes and dreams.2009, luckily for