Anyone who has heard of usenet or hasn’t thinks it’s some kind of mythical place; much like the internet is to seniors. Seniors say things like

I read that on the google!

I used to say “I saw it on the internet” and no more questions were asked, but now people want links and addresses and references! It’s worse than wikipedia.

My new strategy is to just say “oh yeah, it was all over the Usenet” then people won’t ask for links and references, it will just understood that it came from the land beyond and is not to be trifled with

I’ve been tell’in a buddy of mine that I was going to write about his blog for a long time. So now I finally will.

Shoes of the Day is run by a completely heterosexual male who really likes shoes. I have laughed at 4 of his last 5 posts so check it out. Shoe lovers especially should find it in the very least interesting.

When I was a kid

I used to think a lot about the future. On TV they showed that wars in the future would be fought with laser guns.

Logically, that meant that instead of using kevlar or whatever body armor we use today we’d have to use mirrors. Obviously, mirrors are the only thing that could deflect a powerful laser. This meant that soldiers would wear mirror armor.

I realized how lame it would look compared to the combat apparel of the day and immediately prayed that laser guns would never become the weapon of choice.

So far, so good.