On the 11th, Noah and I had the following IM conversation regarding this site: Noah: TANcast appears to be done Andy: Done? Noah: down Andy: Dude Andy: That is a big difference I’m sure you will all agree that “done” sounds pretty damn final. I thought something had gone horribly wrong with the hosting, or […]
When I was younger, I played a lot of the “SimSomething” series: SimCity, SimEarth, SimAnt, SimCity 2000, SimTower, SimIsle, and yes, even SimCopter. I also played, as a young adult, Civilization II, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (and the Alien Crossfire expansion), Civilization: Call to Power (which wasn’t made by Firaxis and wasn’t as good), and […]
I got two calls today from 877-565-8456 almost exactly 15 minutes apart. I missed the first and the caller did not leave a message, but when a second call came through so soon I thought it might be important and answered. It turned out this was a goddamn automated dialer system calling me to tell […]
There is an old adage, relative to the life of the Internet at least, about how arguing on said Internet is like… well, let’s just say it is likely to prove that both sides are idiots. Just after George Carlin passed, I came across yet another best-of-Carlin compilation on YouTube, but the person who posted […]
I hate being kept waiting at a doctor’s office. First you wait in the waiting room, then they call you back and weight something (perhaps your left ball) and either ask you to wait in a second, hidden waiting room or else direct you to an examination room where you will invariably wait some more. […]
About 2 weeks ago, Noah asked me about the “Mahna Mahna” song from The Muppet Show, wondering if it was a Muppets original. I told him I had no idea. Almost exactly thirty seconds later, after swimming through a series of tubes (no, I’m not going to stop making fun of Ted Stevens until that […]
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To all those political partisans currently resorting to histrionics and hand-waving: Failing to seat even a single delegate from Michigan or Florida at the Democratic National Convention is not in any way like Jim Crow laws or any other form of racist (or sexist) voter disenfranchisement. I think this is an especially disingenuous claim to […]
I started a new religion today; it must be Monday. Here are the details so that you can see if it appeals to you, by which I mean: YOU MUST JOIN OR YOUR SOUL WILL ROT AWAY !!!
I was just asked by a friend: Who said this: “Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their, their love with women all across this country.” As with every quote I’m quizzed on, I passed it through my “If a monkey could talk, would it say […]