tales from the wayside

I started for telling short stories - then about the home remodel (not happening) - now ... just random outtakes and foolish assumptions.

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Thursday, December 21, 2006

I found this on an on-line news service:

The Internet has given birth to a quirky range of modern addictions and maladies, the British weekly New Scientist says in its Christmas issue published this Saturday.
They include these:

  • - EGO-SURFING: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet.
  • - BLOG STREAKING: "Revealing secrets or personal information online which for everybody's sake would be best kept private."
  • - CRACKBERRY: "The curse of the modern executive: not being able to stop checking your BlackBerry, even at your grandmother's funeral." (A BlackBerry is a popular handheld device that can be used for phoning, emailing and web-browsing).
  • - GOOGLE-STALKING: Defined as "snooping online on old friends, colleagues or first dates."
  • - CYBERCHONDRIA: "A headache and a particular rash at the same time? Extensive online research tells you it must be cancer."
  • - PHOTOLURKING: Flicking through a photo album of someone you've never met.
  • - WIKIPEDIHOLISM: Excess devotion to contributing to the online collaborative encyclopedia,
    Wikipedia. (Wikipedia even has a page where you can test whether you're an addict: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are-You-a-Wikipediholic-Test)).
  • - CHEESEPODDING: Downloading of a song "so cheesy that you could cover it in plastic wrap and sell it at the deli counter." Cheesepodders are especially vulnerable to soft-rock favourites from the 1970s.

OK, I'll admit it, I am a Cheesepodder.
But admitting it is the first step to a cure.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Kitchen Floor


My new kitchen floor

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Early but very sincere greetings:


It may be a bit early, but as long as I'm decorating for Christmas anyway -


Merry Christmas