We are all consumers. If we stop consuming, we die within days. But some of us are more conumption oriented, and some more production oriented. Would you rather use your free time blogging, building a table, or writing a poem or a computer program, or watching TV, going to a movie, eating, or shopping?

Not...
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Yesterday, I was thinking about replacing my CRT monitors with LCD monitors, so I went online and checked prices at a few places. Circuit City had a good deal on what looked (from the many positive reviews) like a good product--certainly for the price--so I made up my mind and headed over to pick two...
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We went to dinner at Ottavio's (American Fork, UT) for a friends birthday tonight, and while the food was good, there was much to be unhappy with.

First, from the time we were seated till the time our dinner was served (the main dish, not the salads) was about one hour. When you have an...
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Yesterday, my wife went to get a prescription filled. She'd purposely had the prescription written up for a "generic" version of the drug to keep costs down. When she went to pick it up, the pharmacy told her that IHC wouldn't pay for the generic, so we had the option of paying for it ourselves...
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It's not often that I get really angry, and I usually calm down before telling the world about it when I do. So it was a few days ago when Comcast disconnected my cable (including high speed internet and thus my Vonage telephone) four and a half days earlier at my old address than they...
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Zeno's paradox: motion is impossible, because to go from one place to another, you have to first go half way. Then to go the rest of the way, you have to first go half way, and so on, so you never quite get there. In fact, you can never get started, because before you can...
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Back in June, Blogger busted itself slightly by starting to insert divs at the top and bottom of each entry body to clear floats. I'm guessing they did it to be sure that entries with floated images in them don't end up stacked next to each other. The problem is that I (and some others,...
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If you've ever scooped cold, hard ice cream with a regular spoon, you're probably familiar with the potential for bending the spoon. Today's blog entry is a public service announcement to help the ice cream eaters of the world avoid this problem.

When scooping ice cream with a regular spoon, you can either let the...
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Advertising doesn't lie! Or at least when a company advertises their own products' weaknesses, you can believe they're at least as bad as they say they are. So I guess Toyotas must be busted.

The ad I'm referring to is the one where they brag that they have nine models that get better than 30...
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Today, a Comcast broadband customer tried to sign up on one of my websites. After they submitted the registration form, our system sent them an email, but it appears that Comcast's spam filter misidentified and blocked it. The customer emailed me, and I got their account activated. I'd guess that we've lost a number of...
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