Rantings of a New Yorker

If you can't handle swearing, get off the internet. People suck, including me, and these are my rantings.

Entries for the ‘Personal Stuff’ Category

Shuttle Landing

Until I got married, I was only marginally interested in astronomy and the things that NASA were doing. However, I married an astronomy buff, which means that I automatically had to obtain more knowledge than the basics that I learned in college. Since that time, I have learned more about space than I had ever [...]

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It’s Just That I Don’t Care

Last Friday, I took the day off and went into the city with my husband for some much needed “bunking off work” time. We spent the day walking around the American Museum of Natural History and seeing a couple of other sites. However, the most important thing I took away from New York City was [...]

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Christmas Comes Too Early These Days

This year, the day after Halloween, I did my usual rounds of the retail stores to buy my Halloween candy at 75-90% off. It’s a great way to stock up on chocolate. This year, however, I’ve noticed, again, that All Saints Day has also been dubbed “get the Christmas crap set up” day by retailers. [...]

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Why I Won’t Be Upgrading to Windows Vista

I know. There are a lot of Windows fanboys out there. There are also a lot of Linux, BSD, and Apple fanboys. I don’t really care. This isn’t about them.  It’s about me and the many problems that I’ve seen from Windows Vista and it hasn’t even been released yet. I have no need for [...]

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10 Things That Pissed Me Off Today

These are the ten things that have pissed me off today. This will probably change tomorrow as there’s always someone making me wish that things like running people over, smacking people, kicking people, gouging out eyes, etc. were legal instead of being forced to smile politely or only flipping someone off. 1) My next door [...]

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