Another Word for Nerd

My new KeyTronic keyboard has an installation manual. It’s contents consist of:

Installation Instructions
1. Turn OFF your computer
2. Insert the keyboard cable connector into the keyboard port on your computer
3. Turn your computer ON. During power-up the computer will run a short test. Upon successful completion of the self-test you can use the system.

Are people *really* that stupid nowdays, that they need instructions on how to hook up a keyboard?

Did four loads of laundry, one load of dishes, then got bored and reorganized the music room and reworked the computer setup in there.

accomplishment of the day: a good temporary fix for a broken drain pipe.

I’ve been listening to Kelly Clarkson’s album on repeat for about two hours now - I must be ill. “Since U Been Gone”, “Breakaway”, and “Beautiful Disaster” aren’t bad though. Reminds me of Mariah Carey without the glass-breaking yelps.

I feel sorry for the UPS delivery guy today.

From a consulting client, I got (via Amazon):
Griffin Technology iMic
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
American Chopper The Series - First Season (DVD)

and from Naturetech Worldwide, I received:
Proso 2400 Portable Workstation
MesoStation 999 SPARC PowerBook
Unfortunately, both of these have to go back to Naturetech in thirty days after I finish a review.

May everyone have a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend.

The Pebblebrook High School students (in Cobb County, GA) who were censored by their narrow-minded principal have put the paper online.

I wish them all the luck - after reading the “email trail” on their site, their principal sounds like a very self-centered, narrow-minded asshole who wanted to run a kingdom and avoid anything controversial in the school paper.

For those of you reading through the FeedBurner Feed of this site, well, whoops, it works again now.

Leno recently had a segment where they had a text-messaging via morse code speed contest. Of course, Morse won.

I need to get back up to speed - I haven’t done much with regards to my ham radio license (K5WCB) in a couple of years.

In the same day, I’ve gotten both “INCREASE YOUR PENIS BY INCHES” and “DECREASE YOUR WAIST BY INCHES” spam.

I wonder why none of it is ever in metric.

is the Drive By Truckers. The best way I can describe them is “dirty Southern grunge jam-band rock”.