Just A Quickie

I was in seven states on Tuesday: Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. Yesterday we drove to Brevard, NC to visit my mother’s aunt, and now we’re back in VA, to drive through six states tomorrow to get home. And this hotel, in which we’ve stayed before, is the absolute [...]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Part Deux

OK, WTF is this about? I decided to check out GMail’s new RSS bar. Load up some feeds, and it’ll show you some headlines. Cool. But now I get a damn advertisement. (“Take our survey in the next 15 minutes and we’ll pay you $300!” Bite me.) Look, I know I shouldn’t complain about a [...]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

OK, first of all, as I type this, it’s 18 degrees out. I haven’t experienced this kind of cold since I lived in Vermont. Where’s my global warming? Secondly, sound has recently decided to simply not work on my main box at home, running Ubuntu Breezy. I made the switch from Debian because Breezy has [...]

Wasted Talent

Lillo Brancato, Jr. was arrested yesterday and charged with second-degree murder, burglary, and weapons charges after he helped another man break into a house in the Bronx. The other man, Steven Armento, shot and killed an off-duty police officer. (See the full story on wnbc.com‘s site.) In case you don’t recongnize this derelict scumbag from [...]