Browsing the archives for the Phrase tag

New phrase

in General Musings, Raves

My computer invented a new phrase.  I don’t think this is a real word in any circle other than in the esoteric world of ones and zeroes that computers live in:   “Could not canonicalize our host name in kerberos_init”   “Canonicalize” meaning it could not create or verify or confirm the computer’s canonical name. [...]

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From the BBC News

in General Musings

OK, y’all didn’t think I’d let the whole week go by without posting something from the BBC site, or did y’all?   This guy has a certain tattoo on his body, and feels violated that someone took a picture of it.  Um, hello, you have the phrase “Hot Rod” tattooed on your tally whacker, of course [...]

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Wednesday night report

in General Musings, Taxi Stories

Well, this Wednesday saved it, so now it’s not 3 strikes and Wednesdays are out.  To continue with the baseball terminology, Wednesdays have 2 strikes, 1 ball.  Let’s see how it turns out. I saw 2 accidents.  One, involved a homeless guy that had just gotten hit by a car.  Dude was still on the [...]

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