I like laughing, so I look for the humor in things a lot.  But it isn’t often that I laugh to the point of tears, and the following story almost brought me there…. so I wanted to share it with you :-)  The below was an email forward – I do not know the people [...]

So I have reached my $1000 incremental fund raising mark.  If the video didn’t load below you can see the YouTube video here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y16CJ4yX16c
To donate money and feed starving kids please head over to http://firstgiving.com/aaronbartell

Thanks to Mike Evans for sending this my way on Facebook.  I must admit that this man has too much time on his hands but at least he is spending it doing something entertaining.  This gent worked up hardware and software that will post a twitter update every time he farts in his chair.  To [...]

I am not sure if I should laugh or cry at the commentary over PETA’s love for fish and their effort to get people to stop “fishing”.  Read for yourself how they are trying to rename fish to be “sea kittens” so people are less apt to hurt them:  http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/index.asp
I don’t know if I could [...]

ITJungle has been writing recently about a new product initiative IBM has out there called the “SmartCube”.  You can read the article here: http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh120808-story02.html
This concept is interesting to me because it approaches IT in a more complete manner by attempting to provide a more complete single-box solution and takes into account the fact that not [...]

So let’s say you are a guy that works from home.  And late one Friday afternoon you go to the cupboard and see some new energy bars the wife bought.  You proceed to snarf one down and think to yourself “good job wife, I really like these new bars”.  As you are throwing away the [...]

As some of you may or may not know, I am a husband of seven years and have four children. I am lost for the reason Amanda ever fell in love with me, but was I sure glad to find such a patient woman.
Anyways, part of being a father is raising your kids [...]

I was reading a recent article about the AS/400 turning 20, and while the article was good and all I noticed something equally important: the guy in the picture(click here) putting together one of the first AS/400’s isn’t wearing a hairnet!  Now, we all know hairnets at McDonalds are VERY important to getting a quality [...]

A user on midrange.com forums posted the following link which I thought was quite entertaining to read: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
Made me feel like Bill Gates is more of a true technology person that I had made him out to be.  The poor guy has to give all those opening session type presentations where the software doesn’t work [...]

I play bass guitar with the local church group (www.trvc.org) and to date had been using an 80 watt keyboard amp as my method of making noise.  Needless to say it didn’t make a lot of noise while trying to keep up to a drummer on a set or the keyboard and guitarist.
So after doing [...]