Somehow spammers have gotten it in to their tiny little heads that they need to try to flood TANcast with spam comments. I know admins of real sites will scoff, but 6 months ago we were averaging about 20 spam comments per day. In October we averaged 120 per day before I turned reCAPTCHA on. […]
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 […]
This is a “blast from the past” post from time-traveling Andy. I’ve pre-dated it to a time when I was asleep in a ca. 1973 beater RV in my uncle’s driveway in Chula Vista, CA in order to post about a play I saw a few weeks prior to that with the fiancee’s parents. I […]
So I was hearing yesterday about how Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner just popped out a new larval Affleck. There was, however, no indication of what appellation the slavering masses would be screeching in their adoration of this newly minted fountain of famous. That all got me thinking of the weird fucking names that celebrities […]
Here is yet another reason why I am a suspicious person: (Snatched without permission from The Daily Advertiser in Louisiana) BellSouth says it took part in survey Claire Taylor BellSouth is a co- sponsor with Cox Communications of a controversial telephone survey centered on a proposed Lafayette fiber project. Lafayette BellSouth spokesman John Williams on […]
Some people (and by that I mean “morons”) have been buying in to a really nifty lie for several years: bottled water is pure and safer than tap water. I call bullshit. If you don’t believe me, go check out the episode of Penn & Teller’s show (Bullshit) on this exact subject. Better yet, check […]
I just took a quick trip to see my parents, which means I drove the same 90 miles twice in about 24 hours. The visit was lovely, but what follows is a profanity-laced letter to a few of the drivers who “shared” the road with me. Anyone weak of stomach or easily offended or related […]