PMCS stands for Preventive Maintenance, Checks and Services. It is the Holy Writ of any military organization in the United States. Fair at PMCS and you will be judged to be Not Worthy Of Wearing a Uniform. As simple as that. Every stupid little thing ever issued to you while in uniform has some kind [...]

So I got this one Beatles song stuck in my head, but I am still watching Taxi Driver, so I try to control myself until I could not taking any longer. I failed, so I ended up playing “You never give me your money”? from Abbey Road. At the EXACT same time, I start talking [...]

Oh the Joy! Today I found out that my premium cable includes one more flat-fee on demand channel than I expected. I already knew I had HBO, Cinemax, Showtime and TMC On Demand as part of my cable package, which means I get to watch anything in these channels at no extra cost. Now I [...]

“I would prefer not to.” I just finished watching Bartleby , the 2001 movie adaptation of Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener. I first found out about this story while reading Stephen King’s Bag of Bones and I was curious about reading it but I forgot about it. Today I was checking out Showtime on Demand [...]

In the immortal words of Eric Cartman, this book has “warped my feeble little mind.”? I honestly can’t find a better way to put it out. Or maybe I can say that it fried my brain, or that I feel mind fucked. I can almost feel the headache coming. What a freaky little book. I [...]

Post-turkey-dinner cabin fever took a hold of me around 7:45 PM today and I had no choice but to go watch a movie (not a hell of a lot to do in suburban Virginia on Thanksgiving evening). There were only three movies I was remotely interested: Gothika (which I had read sucked), Timeline (I read [...]

I find it so ironic how Comcast is working so hard in making us believe they are being nice to us. Right now Comcast is in the middle of a ramp-up that will put most of their cable modem network at 3MB/s downstream, 256KB/s upstream without increasing the price of the subscription. Everybody I have [...]

I am wondering how many times I have to get into my head that if something is not broken, then goddamit, don’t mess with it! Yesterday a friend of mine showed me a command used for the FreeBSD ports system that would allow me to with just one line update all the ports in use [...]

A little background: when I switched out of the telecommunications field in order to program full-time, up until then I had always paid for web site hosting. There were tons of places where I could host for free, but they were all shit. If I wanted things my way, I had to shell out the [...]

Today being my day off, I decided to go write something and see how the day played out. I ended up at my usual Starbucks because I hated going to Borders on Sunday. It still pissed me off to walk in front of the Books-a-Million but there’s nothing I can do until I give them [...]