I really do. And I speak from experience, having owned several over the past decades. Right now we own two VW products, and both are a pain in the posterior. This morning I was about ready to take a shotgun to my VW Jetta. The battery in my car is on the fritz, and has … Read More “I Hate Volkswagens” »
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After that last lengthy ramble about walking a fine line between the needs of users and the needs of the district, I was challenged on just about every point I made with situations that arose today. I can’t give too many details because some of these will involve personnel and even potentially criminal issues. Let’s … Read More “Challenges” »
At 11:15 CNN called it – Barak Obama would become the 44th President of the United States. I really hated not being with someone to share this historic election night. I had CNN on in my hotel room, and had hourly conversations with Laura, who was watching the same returns projected onto the wall with … Read More “Election Aftermath” »
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight….. If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.” Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story. If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick. … Read More “A bit confused…” »
Toward the first of the summer I took part in a webinar hosted by the state of South Carolina. This meeting informed us (the state technology leaders) that if we wanted more Internet bandwidth, we would have to place a monitoring device on our network. We were told that this was required to determine whether … Read More “Big Brother is Watching” »
Following up on my previous spam rant… It’s not just for in-boxes. spam is with us just about everywhere. We don’t think of it as such, but there it is – get rich quick schemes, quackery, and graspable straws for the hopeless. This is the same thing I see in late-night cable TV advertisements and … Read More “Old School Spam” »
<rant> OK, I want to know who you are. I want to know which of you are actually stupid enough to think that purchasing real estate, refinancing your house, or making any major investment because of some random e-mail you received is actually a good idea. I want to know which of you feels so … Read More “Spam Rant” »
Over the weekend Laura and I went shopping for some new furniture. It was interesting to note the responses of various sales people at the different stores we visited. We developed a kind of game to see which might be working on commission by the level of “leechdom” they exhibited. I’ll rank these from 1 … Read More “Levels of Leechdom” »
This morning I found myself truly outrage, but the target of that anger kept shifting. First, the setting… I dropped by the media center of one of our schools where we are holding summer school. There was a teacher there with two students, one watching a music video and one a boxing match, neither of … Read More “Where to Direct the Outrage??” »
Air Force One arrived at Greenville Spartanburg Airport Saturday evening and the presidential motorcade made its way through Greenville to Furman for commencement. Roads were blocked, and the citizens of our city came out to try to get a glimpse. Some waved flags. Some held signs of various types. One paragraph from the Greenville News … Read More “The Shrub Comes to Furman, Part Two” »