Hokies everywhere are crying. What happened at Virginia Tech is unexplainable. But we still want someone to explain it to us.
Archive of posts filed under the Miscellaneous category.
Copyright Conundrum
One of the most popular sections of PlanetMike is my Jokes collection (which I have about two years of updates to add to it!). A few of the items listed in there aren’t actually jokes, but are inspirational tales, notes, or poems. One of these was titled “Christmas List.” I received it in my email [...]
Commuting Headache
Aah, the first day back at work after the holidays. Along with the federal government returning after their one extra day of rest. The interstate traffic was fine. But to go the last mile down I-95, down 14th Street, to Pennsylvania Avenue, where I walked the five blocks to my office, took 45 minutes. My [...]
What is the obsession with gift cards?
CNN is running a list of the top 35 most outrageous fees (and how to avoid them). Number 18 is Gift-card activation fee. I just don’t understand people’s obsession with giving a gift card. I received two gift cards for my birthday, three for Christmas. My wife received several. But why not give cash? Cash [...]
Rest in the Past Few Days
This is what vacations and rest periods are supposed to be like: Rest. Most of my vacations are spent working on some web project or other, or traveling to visit family and friends, or are otherwise hectic and rushed. But since last Friday, I’ve had 4 nights where I was able to sleep more than [...]
Two Days until Christmas!
Only two days until Christmas! Have you had your Christmas music fix yet?
Horrible Commute Last Night
What happened on the roads south out of DC last night? Did a snow flake fall? Major traffic accident? Who knows? Whatever it was, my normal one hour commute, which is bad enough, took an hour, fifty minutes. Ridiculous. Leaving home in the morning when it is dark; leaving the office at twilight, and getting [...]
Strontium
is Sr. Why isn’t Strontium St? Those crazy physicists.
300,000,000
The United States’ population is going to hit 300 million people sometime on October 17, 2006. Watch the excitement at U.S. POPClock Projection.
Copyright Information
Just so everyone is clear, the blog entries and other content on PlanetMike.com is copyrighted by Michael Boyd Clark, and should not be posted to any other web site. The RSS feeds I provide are for the use of the readers of my blog, not to make it easier to steal my content and put [...]
