I’ll be that probably almost everyone reading has heard that question from a parent / guardian / teacher or other authority figure at least once, probably dozens of times. It’s also a phrase that I’ve been catching myself using when going through my email. Yes, I am not a hamster but I do admit talking to my email (and other) programs.

I think perhaps one of the most annoying things about the news, television news in particular, is the infuriating tendency to mis-pronounce things. One of my favorite things to hate hearing them say is “Blytheville”. Even though the correct pronunciation is “Blythe Ville” with two clear and distinct syllables, most of the on [...]

I found myself asking that question a lot more in the last six or seven months or so because my watch, an old Timex Triathlon Iron Man, finally gave up the ghost and stopped working. Since then I’ve been meaning to do something about replacing it but still haven’t managed to actually get it [...]

There’s something I’ve really come to hate about the way a lot of DVD’s are made these days. Specifically, I’m talking about the fact that when you put the disk in and start it playing, many of them are made so that they show you previews of coming attractions and that’s fine… the FIRST [...]

I think that just about every parent in the country that has school age children have had to deal with this whole “Ferris Bueller” thing to one degree or another and for a whole host of reasons. What’s really even more annoying than that however is the fact that some genius has decided that [...]