Maybe part of it is my adverse reaction to the life-draining hotness of summers in the south but I’ve come to relish autumn as much as any other season.  Some of you know which of the four seasons my favorite is, and while spring and summer have their strong points, I’m beginning to lean towards autumn as being my second favorite season.  Here are my reasons behind being a fan of a season that most people dread.

Sometimes a phishing email just begs to be repeated.  I’ve left the awesome grammar and oddly-formatted sentence structures.  My comments are in blue.

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Please bear with me this week as I deal with the emotional aspect of surviving yet another downsizing and the resulting additional workload that comes with such a move.  It's hard to move forward, even when it probably makes the most sense for the company financially, when your office floor is about 1/4 full and feels like a mortuary.  Don’t misinterpret my sentiments above as somehow feeling worse than those unfortunate people who lost their jobs.  I feel lucky as hell to once again have survived but each one of these downsizings takes a little chunk out of the ...

If you didn’t know where I lived in Chicago or the fact that I’m a Detroit Tigers fan, this post will mean nothing.  I was reading this article today about my second favorite Tiger ever, Alan Trammell.  He now is a bench coach for the Cubs and they me ...

User participation seems to be a fun trend on this blog so let’s have another stab at it today.  Based on a topic submitted by my favorite General, answer the following.  Assume your house is on fire but your family and pets are safe outside.  You have two minutes to grab what you can in your hands (only one trip though – the house is about to cave in).  What do you grab?

Ahhhh, hurricane season.  It’s that time of year when Mother Nature does the ‘Cops’ show a favour and pressure-washes that show’s largest soundstage (also known as the state of Florida).  You can always tell when the winds are getting near since the clouds are headed east to west up here in Atlanta.

While most of you know I’m a cold weather guy, there are a few things nice about the warm weather months.  I really have no explanation as to why my blog has become “soft” all of a sudden but if I don’t watch out, I’m gonna lose my street cred I’ve earned all these years as a cynical wanker.  Maybe I’ll write a counter-post which would outline the crap of summer (smog, humidity, mosquitos, fat people in bathing suits, cockroaches the size of shoeboxes…)  Anyway, here goes.

Don’t worry about us.  Russia is attacking the OTHER Georgia.  We’re fine over here.  The only invasion Atlanta is suffering is the influx of Yankees like me the past two decades.  It’s a much more subtle ove ...

As I tried once more time to break myself free from Comcast and see if I could get a satellite signal from our house (we can get standard feed but the trees are still too tall for HD, so it’s a no go), it got me to thinking about how unnecessary cable channels might eventually become.  There will be a need for a physical cable pipeline for the time being simply because that’s the fastest way to receive internet for most of the population.  But the problem with cable lines is they have a finite amount of space you can shove all that bandwidth-hogging data through.

What if Dr. Robert Atkins, founder of the (duh) Atkins Diet, actually was a carboholic so much to the point that he tried to file a patent for a breadmaker with the US Patent office, only to find out he was beaten to the punch by someone else?  In a fit of revengeful rage, he invented a diet that basically stripped bread out of one’s daily food intake.  Thus his master plan to make the breadmaker inventor go out of business during the low carb rage would become complete.  Just to make clear, I’m purely speculating here.  The last thing I need is the Atkins Estate charging me with slander even though I’m sle ...