Adam Kuban: Kublog

my rest stop on the information superhighway

Month: February, 2009

Links from Monday, February 9, 2009 to Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Pat Robertson Denounces Rush Limbaugh"'That was a terrible thing to say,' Robertson responded. 'I mean, he's the president of all the country. If he succeeds, the country succeeds. And if he doesn't, it hurts us all. Anybody who would pull against our president is not exactly thinking rationally.'" [I don't know why anyone even listens [...]

365.39: Sad kiddie ride

Most kiddie rides are sorta sad, but this one, tucked away in the entrance to a Key Foods, is one of the saddest I’ve seen. At least put the thing outside in the open air.

Links for Sunday, February 8, 2009

Is stress pushing spelling snobs over edge? [msnbc.com]"'When people are under stress, they have less tolerance for minor frustrations,' she says. 'Think of the harried mother rushing around trying to get her kids ready for school who loses it when one of them can’t find his homework. Spelling is something concrete and has a definite [...]

365.38: Heads

A roast chicken head on a roast suckling pig head. What more can I say?

Links for Friday, February 6, 2009

These are my links for Friday, February 6, 2009 from 12:03 to 17:35

‘The Computer Store’

The Computer Store, originally uploaded by jschumacher

Hitachi Travelstar 2.5-inch hard drive FAIL

I love that Flickr user Hitachi GST favorited this photo. Do you know what happened to this hard drive? IT FAILED. Less than a year after I installed it. Then guess what? I ordered a new Hitachi hard drive for my MacBook. That one failed, too. I then ordered a TOSHIBA HD to replace the [...]

365.37: Counter Closed

I need to come back with a dSLR to capture this. Something very old school and classic about this shot, but it’s ruined by the barreling of the lens on my point-and-shoot camera and also by that camera’s poor image-handling. Still, it’s the best of the 365-eligible shots* I took this day. *I try not [...]

Links for Thursday, February 5, 2009

These are my links for Thursday, February 5, 2009 from 11:45 to 22:31

365.36: Sad, lonely knitted item

I was feeling about as bedraggled as this discarded or lost hat today. I stayed up very late last night, got up a bit late, and worked from home till 3 p.m., when I had to commute in for an afternoon meeting. When I looked up from my magazine and saw this hat, I knew [...]