Boston Globe Archives for Free?

I really don’t get it. If a newspaper is going to charge for its archives, you’d think that it wouldn’t make its archives available for free depending on what you clicked on. The Boston Globe does just that. I did a search to see if Scott Kirsner’s followup article about the Pepper Pad had been […]

No solicitors!

Kudos to the Forefront sales rep who stopped by the office today. After encountering a locked door and a NO SOLICITING sign above our lobby doorbell, he meticulously balanced a brochure against our door and silently walked away! This is a far cry from most sales monkeys that will ring the bell while looking right […]

Passion

I was about to write an entry entitled Apathy, wherein I was going to say something along the lines of you know it’s going to be a long day when you wake up so drained that your only motivation to drive into work is the fact that there will be incredibly bland Cinco de Mayo […]

Can hedgehogs read?

I just signed one of our hedgehogs up for four free issues of Time Magazine. I hope that doesn’t give her any weird ideas about her place in the food chain.

An open letter to some random kid…

Dear some random kid, Thank you for not only taking the time to fill out our information request form, but also using such eloquent prose to inform me that I suck dick. Fortunately for me, and unfortunately for you, all requests are logged by IP address and it was rather trivial for me to track […]

Is that all you got?

Quite a few years ago, when I was living in the Mission Hill combat zone just outside of Boston, I was a Full Body Cast member of the Cambridge Rocky Horror Picture Show. In and of itself, that fact should have classified me as a pervert, but I had the distinct honor of meeting someone […]

Too smart for your own good

That’s the problem with being a systems administrator or engineer. You always tackle the most obscure complex problems before checking for the blinding flash of the obvious.

Janet Jackson’s Nipple

The talk all around the world right now is Janet exposing her breast at the Super Bowl. After some digging through Google and AP News Photos, I finally found a detailed image of the incident! Here, in all of her glory, is Janet Jackson’s breast! Personally, I’m not all that impressed. Not only is she […]

So how about that halftime show?

I absolutely refuse to mention anything about the cheesy “shocking” publicity stunt that pissed off CBS. It was an accident…honest! Yeah, whatever.