Year: 2009

  • I Love Binary Numbers!

    Most people haven’t thought very hard about numbers. I’ve always loved numbers. In the 5th grade, Mrs. Lamberson explained numbering systems to us. She informed us that the numbers we’re used to seeing are in the “base 10” numbering system. “Base” means the base of an exponential function. Each position in the number tells you…

  • CAPTCHA!

    You may not know what they’re called, but you’ve seen and had to solve a CAPTCHA. The word CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” You see, some people like to write programs to automatically access services across the Internet that the operators of those services would rather…

  • Life in the Homeless Shelter, Final Episode

    Freedom! This is the sixth and final episode of my extremely popular sitcom, Life in the Homeless Shelter. This episode opens with the word Freedom because I agreed to move in with Dan. If the rental people accept our application, then we will be moving in to the apartment building across the street from the…

  • Quit-Smoking Update: Project Aborted

    Quit-Smoking Update: Project Aborted

    My present for Christmas was to quit smoking. I returned that gift. I made it from 6:45am on Tuesday until 1:30pm on Wednesday. Pretty weak, right? What upsets me is that I’ve gone through all this stress over a really uninteresting drug which basically does nothing for me in the fun or quality of life…

  • I Quit Smoking

    On my 40th birthday, my present to me was that I started smoking. That was almost 18 months ago.   My Christmas present to myself this year is to quit smoking.   On my way to work this morning, I smoked half of my last cigarette and then threw it and my lighter away.  …

  • Life in the Homeless Shelter, Part 5

    This is the fifth installment of my wildly popular sitcom, Life in the Homeless Shelter! Yesterday had to be the best day at the homeless shelter, yet. Remember Tim hitting Tom in the leg with the broom handle? Last night Tim was escorted from the place by two police officers. Here’s what happened: Tim left…

  • Why do I have to use a strong password?

    Imagine a system like this: Joe’s BBS, type your password to login: taco Can you imagine? A system where you type in your password and then it compares what you type with everyone’s password and logs you in based on what you type? This actually used to be an option on the TBBS bulletin board…

  • Mr. Eagle!

    When I was in the sixth grade I won my first elected office. Every sixth grade classroom nominated one boy and one girl for Mr. and Miss Eagle. Grades three through six would vote following a presentation where the candidates would make a speech. I knew that the sixth graders would all vote for the…

  • A Book?

    I’ve hinted on Twitter about some of the things I’ve done and been through. Some nice folks have been actually reading the stuff and even commented that I should write a book. And several even said they would BUY the book. I’ve been thinking for more than a year that I want to tell my…

  • Cathryn

    Chapter 5: Cathryn A note about my Mother and pink skies: No one made sunny days like my Mother, Cathryn. The skies were pink and the clouds were always the fluffy ones. The rain was always gentle. The air smelled sweet like honeysuckle and the bees always buzzed along without bothering you. You could play…

  • My First Encounter With Angels

    In 2006 my girlfriend and I walked out of a Walmart and she was trying a bag of hot Cheetos and didn’t like them. I didn’t want them. She tried to give them to several people coming into the store. No one took them. She tried to give them to two employees outside and the…

  • New Fragrance for Women

    New Fragrance for Women

    October 24th, 2010: HOLY FUCK!   What a terrible time I’m having.  Life is not fun… I don’t experience joy… My only goal is not to be homeless again… but I’m ignoring that goal and pretty much making sure that I’m going to end up homeless again… The goal is to scare myself into killing…