mike the mountain

Remember when Abraham Lincoln died by being hit with a Care Bear Stare after colliding in the air with Jackie Chan while attempting to pole-vault onto Optimus Prime?
I was reminded today of one of the greatest geek songs ever written, “Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny“.
Extremely catchy. I’ll have it in my head for the [...]

Let me be perfectly clear on this issue.
It is NOT “Christmas season” until December.
Screw your “Christmas Creep“, your “Black Friday” in the States, your “Oh my God it’s not even Halloween yet you insane greedy bastards!!” up here in Canada…
Screw your Santa Claus Parade’s in mid-November (Mommy why is Santa wearing a T-shirt?).
Maybe I’m biased, [...]

One of the pleasures of a fresh new computer (or hard drive at least) is the blank slate, just waiting to be filled with your own personal mix of “colourful” applications.
As I said previously, I managed to melt the HD of my work laptop, so I got a brand new drive, fully loaded with the [...]

I’m exhausted.
Been a crazy couple weeks. Back-to-back out of town conferences, then coming home to a completely b0rked work laptop. Total mess, couldn’t even get past the “do you want to boot into Safe Mode” screen. Not so much a work concern, I was sure they could replace the stock system fairly [...]