KludgeSpot Giveaway

I'm bored. I feel like giving stuff away. Anyone game?Awesome! As you might know I make pens and things and post them on my WoodMangler site. So I'm going to give away one of my pens.In addition I have some money in my Cafepress account. So I'll give away a second prize. A magnet or pin from any of my Cafepress shops. So how will it work? Simple enough. I would like a caption submitted for one of

Dream Oracle

Looking for a dream oracle. I had a really weird one last night.I was in a house looking around and I found a scrapbook filled up with my blogs. That alone ranks as strange but it get odder. I see all my blogs in the scrapbooks, done up just like their respective websites.Then I come to this one...Legal Addictive Tigers Pick an animal and heretical relationship.Below that was a picture tiger

20 Things I'd Rather Do Than Work

I have a great job. I get to do what I love for a living. Still there are days when working is just not the first thing on my mind. Some days while diagnosing servers and tracking network errors my mind wanders to other places...

Checking Facebook for info on your friends latest illness and dinner plans
Hope for an office fire drill. I'm on team BLUE!!
Search the Internet for people to correct.

20 Signs You're A PC Gamer

You like a good plot line and can appreciate graphics better than console players.Gaming takes energy. Got Caffeine?When the game is really good losing track of a number of hours or occasionally days is not without precedentSave, save, save. It's the gamers mantra.You can crouch, run backwards while firing and still simultaneously jump and reloadYou couldn't use an XBOX controller if your life

The APTICOM

I found the APTICOM in my companies warehouse. I was immediately compelled to retrieve it and put in in my office. I believe the APTICOM is more than an aging job aptitude grading device. I believe it is sentient. The APTICOM forced me to write this note to my co-workers and let them know of it's arrival. Dear Staff:The “APICOM” has invaded us and decided to take up residence in my office. Much

Holding for Abuse

I'm stilling in the Symantec Enterprise Support phone que. I've been on the phone for 26:34 at this point indicated by my phones digital readout. In between the mind numbing 50's music remixes (Bobby Vinton is belting out a painful verse of Blue Velet right now) and monotone announcements a perky voice pops on every 3 minutes and informs me:"The customer waiting longest has been on the line for

Going Back To Geek Bootcamp

Video games. It's my real only purpose for a home PC. Sure I like email and the web, but they do not afford the real computing meat that comes from gaming, the entrée or substantial repast, if you will. Don't misunderstand, I do enjoy the occasional You-Tube side dish, but what is rice without a savory curry of RPG, FPS or RTS? Hollow. Wanting. Mac like, if you will.Anyway. So I have an older PC