Dan Poynter

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Victory, pt. 2

As mentioned in a previous post, I assisted someone at work in getting their laptop connected to our wireless network. The user was Chinese, and I greeted her with a friendly nihau. A few weeks later I was assisting a user in Personnel. “I heard you are a valuable asset to our company,” she said. …

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Overheard: 50 yr old male

Guy: “What’s that cops show where they’re always busting people?” Everyone else in room: “COPS?”

Irish Prayer

“May those who love us, love us. And for those who don’t love us, May God turn their hearts. And if he can not turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles, So we may know them by their limping.”

Overheard: 35 yr old female

“My mom was high when she made my name.”

Walmart Product Replacement Plan, Pt.1

I don’t know how it’s going to all to work out at this point, but I’ve got to say–at least from my initial experience this afternoon trying to get a defective digital camera replaced–that Walmart’s product replacement plans have not been of any benefit.

World Backup Day

Today is World Backup Day, when we celebrate by backing up the data on our computers. In reality, you should be doing this regularly, but you probably aren’t. You probably have all kinds of lame excuses, like the cost of hard drives, you don’t have time, it’s too hard, whatever. Most people don’t take backups …

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Speaking of The General…

A friend of mine runs a library. He had a friend called The General. The two of them are known for making a pyramid out of vodka bottles roughly 8′ x 8′ x 8′. Anyway, one day my friend asked The General to pick him up at work. The General declined, saying, “Where I come …

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The General

My friend B shot this pic somewhere in the KC area:

Yiddish curse

“May you inherit a hotel of a hundred rooms, and may you be found dead in every one of them.”