Brick – verb To strip a smartphone of all its useful features. To make it as useful as – I performed my first open case surgery on the iPhone to replace its failing battery last weekend. Pop quiz: Do you spend $15 to do it yourself or give $80+ to Apple, plus suffer through a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘thumbed-down’
Love, your health insurance company
I like getting love letters from my health insurance company. They catch me off guard, but it’s nice to know someone is looking out for me. A few weeks ago I got a letter asking about all of my other insurance carriers after I made a rather large claim. They said they wanted to make [...]
Guilt, meet thy maker
A while back I wrote about a call I received in court on a really bad day. It invovled mistaken identities, my mother, and the possibility of cancer. If you recall, there was an instant when I was relieved it was my mother – because it meant it wasn’t my wife. I’d made a choice, [...]
Trial, tribulation, and error
A few weeks ago, heresy showed it’s ugly face in the Kauffman household. Evil found a foothold in one of my vulnerable children. By now you know that when I speak of heresy I’m speaking of one thing: computers. Beth asked for a cheap Windows laptop. In the name of Jobs, The Woz, and The [...]
Reduce, reuse, recycle
I’m going out on a limb here, talking about work. I figure this is a strong limb though. I’ll be discussing my latest blogging hiatus shortly. A partial post is in the hopper. Something to look forward to, eh? My office chair was fifteen years old and saw better days. It’s upholstery was clean and [...]
Never
No, I should really know better. When Cheryl and I moved here from Orlando we lived with her parents until we could find a place for ourselves. For almost as long as we’ve had a place of our own, Cheryl has been keeping an eye out for a place we could share with her parents. [...]
The cash stampede
I didn’t even know it had a name. I’d never seen it before my Beth’s PowerBook started having problems last month. Apparently there is a screen of death on a Mac, the dread blue-screen equivalent: the GSOD, or grayed-out screen of death. I can’t blame you if you’ve never heard of it. It’s rarely seen [...]
More than secure
I know staples are a staple of office life (I’ve been waiting all my life to write that phrase), but I’m a firm believer in the “one stack, one staple” concept. It’s an obsession. It raises my sense of self-righteousness to supreme being levels. Then there’s the lazy stapler. Every office has one. How many [...]
One fine whine
One of the advantages of US style health care is being able to obtain services without having to wait until the sun goes supernova (which could be a really long time, since our sun doesn’t have enough mass to go it alone). – common wisdom in the US. When I say common wisdom (an oxymoron [...]
Bad taste and butchery
I get a little uncomfortable when people start talking about “trimming” trees. My reasons break down like this: any jackass with insurance and a chainsaw can get a licence to trim trees in Florida, and Floridians in general don’t seem to like trees. That’s what I gather from the results anyway. I’m not against all [...]
