Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Peter's Period Postulate

Peter's Period Postulate - "The amount of 'good' in any day is directly proportional to the speed of said day passing by." -Peter P. BrownWhy don't the really good days ever drag on forever? At least I have a lot of time for coming up with postulates... loads of time.

Exercises in Futility

I have a problem, er rather no. A friend of mine has this problem. See him there? See how sad and frustrated he is with his own inability. I, er... He can't make it work. You know what I mean? I mean he tries, he REALLY tries but nothing. No, er success. Yeah. No success. It's hard when someone is there telling you to perform and you've got nothing, nada zip. I'm ready to pull out all my severely

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Attack of the Half Inch Spider

It was a rather peaceful and uneventful evening. Dinner had been consumed, pajamas had been donned, bedtime stories read and our offspring had fallen alseep in their beds. The wife and I went about our normal evening routine of cleaning up the copious piles of pink clothes and playthings scattered about our living room and dining room. "Ouch!""Peter? What happened?""Nothing... just stepped on a '

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Lie to me. Please

I've been finding myself manning the helpdesk phones more frequently in recent days. Not that it's any big deal, I'm mostly just backup. I get one or two calls an hour.My last call was a bit odd. Users wonder why we hate them. Here's why"I need you to install the latest version of Flash on my computer""Why?""It's free software.""I know, but why do you need it?""I want it to get to websites""Are