Engineer Scott presses the talk button on the Enterprises intercom. “Scott here.” “We need more knowledge, now Mr Scott.” “B’ cap’n I’m a naugh sure the engines can take much more of this. I just gave it our last copy of Moby Dick. Th’ internet’s beginning to overheat.” “Now, Mr Scott.” Scotty drops his chinContinue reading “Financial Meltdown – Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est”
Author Archives: Norm Benson
Email on a Dana
I’ve commented on my AlphaSmart laptop PDA before. Here. One of the recent comments I received on email for Alphasmart’s Dana Wireless said he used Snappermail. Here’s the link to Snappermail.com. I don’t know if my Palm 4.0 OS will support it. There’s a free trial, but I’m not anxious for yet another username, password,Continue reading “Email on a Dana”
"A trial is a contest of lies."
“At a trial everybody lies,” so says Mickey Haller, a cynical defense attorney in Michael Connelly’s latest thriller, The Brass Verdict. I should have read The Lincoln Lawyer before going to jury duty. I’m going to have to download the audiobook on this one. It sounds fast, gritty, and good.
“A trial is a contest of lies.”
“At a trial everybody lies,” so says Mickey Haller, a cynical defense attorney in Michael Connelly’s latest thriller, The Brass Verdict. I should have read The Lincoln Lawyer before going to jury duty. I’m going to have to download the audiobook on this one. It sounds fast, gritty, and good.
"A trial is a contest of lies."
“At a trial everybody lies,” so says Mickey Haller, a cynical defense attorney in Michael Connelly’s latest thriller, The Brass Verdict. I should have read The Lincoln Lawyer before going to jury duty. I’m going to have to download the audiobook on this one. It sounds fast, gritty, and good.
QWEST-Spirit of Service?
QWEST sucks the large one. My lovely bride has been very patient trying to get our (not theirs–ours) money back from QWEST since we terminated our service with them in August. Their billing department hasn’t improved much since they charged a woman $70,000 for supposedly calling herself. According to the story “the bill is justContinue reading “QWEST-Spirit of Service?”
Darn, I forgot to send out NPD cards again this year …
Yes, this Wednesday is National Punctuation Day (By the powers invested in this blog, I invite all my non-US visitors to participate). National Punctuation Day is “A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotes, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis.” The NPD site provides links to resources (books &Continue reading “Darn, I forgot to send out NPD cards again this year …”
The Latest Muppet Caper
Jenny Rappaport–over at Lit Soup–cites a NY Times article saying, that under Disney, the Muppets are set to return. She’s posted several of her favorite Muppet shticks on her blog. Ms Rappaport didn’t post my favorite, the Lobster sketch (aka the Loobster sketch). It’s the Swedish Chef planning to cook a lobster. What could goContinue reading “The Latest Muppet Caper”
Life imitates art
This BBC story, Survey turns hill into a mountain, about Mynydd Graig Goch in Snowdonia in Wales sounds like the movie that starred Hugh Grant, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. Maggie Mountain in the Sierra Nevada I’ve worked in the Sierra Nevada at Mountain Home State Forest. IContinue reading “Life imitates art”
Swift Icing
Sarah Palin gets “Swift iced.”
Nullius in Verba 