Archive for May, 2008

Two Funny (But Nearly Invisible) Lenses

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

You have probably seen the LOLcat pictures (like the one pictured below), in which the punchline is that cat appears to be operating some kind of cat-sized, invisible vehicle.

I have two Squidoo lenses (about funny “LOST” parodies and bloopers and about food-loving comedian Jim Gaffigan) which I think are entertaining, but which don’t receive many [...]

Mother Nature has apparently determined that my wife and I should have a new avocation.  We’ve had several thunderstorms here during the past few weeks, which I think has unfortunately contributed to the ejection (and sometimes injury) of several young birds from their nests.  We have found two such birds in our backyard during the past week.  Thankfully, we learned [...]

Just re-reading my first post. Not exactly a tweet, huh? More like a tweee . . . (takes deep breath) . . .eeet! My second post will be shorter. See?
Sounding my barbaric tweet,
JasonE

Ping! You’re it!
On a computer network, (such as on the Web), a ping is a brief communication that you send to something (in particular) to find out whether or not it is out there and is responsive to the “Whasssup???” request that you have sent. The sending of pings can also be [...]