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Random Ramblings

The end of a [blogging] era

by Daniel on January 16, 2011 · 0 comments

You may have noticed that I haven’t written anything since last September. For the foreseeable future, everything I do will be posted at QAQN.com. This blog had a good run, though I was very… inconsistent. I don’t have a ton of interest in blogging, but podcasting is another matter. Come check it out!

This is So Much FUN!!!

by Daniel on July 17, 2010 · 2 comments

There is nothing – nothing – fun about using the self checkout. Hey Walmart – and all you other grocery/general stores that have these self-serve checkouts… we’re not stupid. You have them there so you don’t have to pay another cashier to work a register. Don’t act like you’re doing us a favor, okay?

Angela Learns the Piano

by Daniel on May 20, 2010 · 0 comments

We have a piano in our apartment, an upright that’s been in Angela’s family for a time. While she can pick out a few tunes, Angela can’t really play – which is why I’ve been less than ecstatic that we’ve had to lug this thing everywhere we’ve moved in the past eight years. That’s about [...]

Site Design Update

by Daniel on May 16, 2010

If something doesn’t look right, it’s probably because I’m upgrading Thesis. Normally, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but I’m going from 1.5.1 to 1.7, and that’s a huge leap in Thesis-terms.

I had $15.00 to spend at Things From Another World in the form of coupon codes, and after spending a good twenty minutes being very indecisive, I chose to do something completely out of character—I ordered from the grab bag. There are a few different grab bags to choose from, and each comic ordered is [...]

Life is Short. Go See a Show.

by Daniel on November 30, 2009 · 14 comments

One of my favorite comedians, George Carlin, died last June at the age of 71. I can remember thinking to myself, on at least two occasions when he was playing in the town in which I was living, that I would see him another time. I put off going to the shows because money was [...]

Sid the Science Kid and his friends

There’s a TV show on PBS called Sid the Science Kid. It is, without a doubt, one of the most formulaic, inspid shows on the network. The fact that it whips a little science on the viewers is great, but the characters are flat, the plot is predictable and the voice acting is terrible. Each [...]

Return of the Fortune Cookies!

by Daniel on October 4, 2009

It’s been a while since I wrote about the goofy messages found in fortune cookies I’ve opened, but I’m back with one that I got just last night. Not exactly award-winning prose, eh?

UPS Hates Me – Proof!

by Daniel on September 22, 2009 · 0 comments

While they are always quick to deliver things that I have little interest in, when it comes to stuff I really really want, UPS makes me suffer. Now, I have proof that it’s intentional. The following is an authentic*, accurate* and true* transcript of a phone conversation that took place last week between representatives of [...]