Gordaen’s Blog

I’ve been using my time on the bus to and from work to read more books. I tried to read Catch-22 but didn’t finish. It was fairly entertaining, but I felt like the satire alone was supposed to drive the entire novel, and it just didn’t work for me. Maybe having been in the military and already having seen much of the same stuff still going on had something to do with it. Anyway, I read Animal Farm by George Orwell after that, and I enjoyed it. Continue reading ‘Book Review: Animal Farm’

I have joined the mass of Twitter users; my username there is IanGClifton. I had thought about joining Twitter for a long time, but I kept thinking how dumb the service was…. I mean, really, the smallest component of Facebook and you make an entire service out of it? I have been working with the APIs for Twitter though, and I needed an additional test user, so I finally caved and joined. Now I will be posting random crap that no one really wants to read… so feel free to follow me.

It seems that every single time I use a webpage with forms in it, something goes wrong. Okay, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration but not a huge one. This screenshot is from the Verizon site where I was setting up new service. I selected an option for Internet and TV, which was supposed to be $50 a month after the “bundle discount.” Continue reading ‘Verizon Calling Plan’

In the midst of a series of bizarre dreams, my brain created one in which I blogged about the origin of my social security number. Of course, I had to give all of it as I explained why it had each number…. Sorry readers, my waking brain thinks that’s a bad idea.

Did you hear the great news? Tennessee’s House voted to allow people with “handgun carry permits” to bring their firearms into bars. This is one of those stories that is simultaneously so hilarious and terrible that you wonder if you can really make it any funnier. Continue reading ‘Alcohol Plus Guns Equals Fun Times In Tennessee’