I just called my husband at work, and I was on hold waiting for him to get to the phone a LONG time. After about 5 minutes, just when I was about to hang up, my phone beeped, alerting me to a new text message. It was from my husband and read: “In the potty.” Isn’t technology grand? I hung up the call and quickly texted back a reply that read, “Call me when you’re done”, and he did. Before the texting age, I would have grown irritated with my time on hold and assumed he was just being slow in getting to the phone. Thanks...

Have you ever seen recut previews on YouTube? I’ve seen one previously where a preview for Mary Poppins was edited to make it look like a horror film. The people who create these are so talented. This one for The Shining is no exception, taking one of the creepiest films ever and making it appear like a romantic comedy: If you’ve seen The Shining, you can pick out scenes that were intensely creepy in the movie…and they just look like lighthearted fun in the clip.

Have you been following the Jesus (Hay-soos) storyline in Dilbert? I’m a big Dilbert fan, and I read the blog that Scott Adams writes every week. It cracks me up to hear about people getting fired because they posted Dilbert comics at work. Uhh…I should clarify, it’s not funny that people got fired, but it’s funny if their management is that paranoid. The Hay-soos storyline has been a good one – I enjoyed seeing Wally with hair. Not everyone liked it though, and Scott Adams actually got hate mail about it. People are nuts.

I came across Server In The House (FYI, it’s a PDF file) a few weeks ago and almost fell out of my chair laughing. My husband (non geek) read it and said, “Huh? I don’t get it.” It looks like this is something Microsoft put out according to the URL in the book – I wasn’t aware that they could be this funny: When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give the mommy a special gift. If you’re a geek, you’ll enjoy this children’s book about having a server in the house, which...

I may be a geek, but I have my limits. I can’t say the same for Jonathan Oxer of Australia. Oxer had a teeny weeny computer chip embedded in his arm, much like women have Norplant (birth control) embedded in their arms. The birth control makes sense to me – the chip however, does not. Oh sure, it DOES stuff. With the chip, Jonathan can scan himself in at his front door and unlock it. I can do that too, with a magical invention called a key. No surgery required! Jonathan may be the bigger geek, but I’m smarter!

I’m in a mixed marriage. My husband is a conservative Republican, right down to the core. He bleeds red, white, and blue. Ronald Regan is his hero. He votes Republican in each and every election. Me? I’m a pinko commie liberal bastard…of course, he doesn’t call me that. But I am a bleeding heart liberal, against the death penalty, and I voted for Bill Clinton. (And if he ran again, I’d vote for him again!) Each election year we joke to each other that we shouldn’t even bother voting, since our votes cancel each other...

I watch Futurama almost every night on Adult Swim. I wasn’t a huge fan of it when the show was on the air, but it’s grown on me in the years since then. I’m to the point now where I’ve seen almost every episode, and I even stopped DVRing it. That’s why I’m so excited about the release of a new, never seen before, full length movie featuring the cast of Futurama! Bender’s Big Score will eventually be broken down into episodes and shown on TV, but if you can’t wait, it’s available in stores now. The...

You have to wonder what stupid kids like this did before the internet. Before, their acts of complete stupidity were limited to an audience of a few friends and classmates, but now, with the world wide web, we can all point and laugh. (I’m just happy none of my kids have tried something like this yet!) Kid Sticks Face In Fire Ant Hole – Watch more free videos

I came across this faux motivational poster tonight that states: Birth Control – Because if you arn’t careful, one of these could be yours. And yes, that typo is on the original image. People…I can’t say it enough. When you’re insulting others, it’s SO important to spell check. If you don’t, we laugh less at the silly inbred children in the photo, and more at YOU for flaunting your so-called superiority online.

Leave it to a bunch of geeks to put a new twist on a protest sign by writing </war> on it. Leave it to ANOTHER bunch of geeks to debate the meaning of said sign in the comments of the blogger who originally shared the sign. I’m of the school of thought that someone already opened war with the <war> tag somewhere, and this guy wants to end war with his closing tag. How do you interpret the sign?