Suburban Redneck

And 75-year-old Mona Shaw did just that:
Shaw, 75, and her husband, Don, say they had an appointment in August for a Comcast technician to come to their Bristow home to install the company’s heavily advertised Triple Play phone, Internet and cable service.
The Shaws say no one came all day, and the technician who showed up [...]

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…you get an email from your child’s school that says, “the rumors are not true; no weapons were involved.”
Of course, many schools don’t offer good knife-fighting curricula these days.

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There is certainly some major redneck-ery going on here!
best line from the article:
“Known as “Rusty,” Redfern had gained some notoriety for his ability to function fully.”
Ah Snellville, you’ll always own a dark little corner of my heart!

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My son has added Linux to his iPod and is running a Nintendo emulator that lets him play Gameboy games. According to him, the hardest part is learning which spots on the touch-wheel correspond to the buttons on the Gameboy. Also, because the CPU on the iPod is heftier, the games run about 200% faster [...]

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Got some spare time? How about scissors and a piece of paper? Then maybe you can create a work of art (thanks, Irvin!). Some really, really cool stuff there.

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Our neighbors are rather quiet and unassuming. You see them and their kids all over the neighborhood, sometimes even sleeping underneath the trees in the back of the house. Here’s one of them inspecting our car.
In Texas, we would have suspected that she would dress out to only about 40lbs. of meat, and thus [...]

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