On Saturday last, I had dinner at a local Chinese restaurant. My fortune read: “You will gain admiration from your
Archive for August, 2005
Strange grants given
LOS ANGELES TIMES, September 14: According to a database maintained by Academic Guidance Services, there are 3,000 scholarships earmarked for
Shooting your computer
From the Echoes-Sentines [?], Somerset County, NJ, Sept. 17, 1987: GILLETTE RESIDENT IS ARRESTED AFTER SHOOTING HIS COMPUTER PASSAIC TWP.
Newspaper typing error
The following appeared on the back page of one of Australia’s more outrageous computer publications, “Computing Australia”, 21st Sept 1987:
Stop credit card fraud
Many folks have written with perfectly plausible explanations about why merchants take my phone number on a credit card charge.