A long, long time ago, I heard a song called “Master of Puppets” and immediately became a fan of the metal band Metallica. For years, I devoured everything they produced, dutifully running out to buy up each cassette (and later CD) as they came out. When Load and Reload came out, a lot […]

Live without the Internet is practically not worth living. This is the lesson we learned from the latest episode of South Park. I know I’m practically paralyzed without my internet connection.
In an irritating case of life imitating art, I woke up this morning to find my DSL out.  I’ve had it drop before […]

Dustin, good friend that he is, called me today to gloat that he was off work today and spending time with his girls. But he also wanted to let me know there was a great sale going on at CompUSA; he had just purchased 2GB of RAM for his desktop machine for $79, and another […]