This last week Jensguy and I were sitting and chatting one night after the children had gone to bed. As usual our topics ranged far and wide, but on this particular night he began a conversation centered around the worst Christmas presents we had ever received or seen given. Jen: Oh kind of like that big hulking gorilla with a …
Man Day Post: Things I Thought I Dreamed Up As A Child, That Turned Out To Be Real!
Do you have certain things from your childhood that with age seem kind of fuzzy? Things that you kind of remember, but aren’t really sure actually happened? One of the great uses of the internet is the ability to check up on these types of questions and to verify that which really happened versus those things which were sugar induced …
Return of Man-day- Daddy Reality
All original memes, posted without comment: Well, no comment except for this: -Jensguy
Man-day Post: Charlie
This is Charlie. She is our grand niece. She was born with Down Syndrome. Her parents were aware of this before Charlie was born and chose to continue on. They are young and have their whole lives ahead of them, but against the grain of most who face this particular decision they brought her into the world and loved her. …
Man-day Post: The Internet Is A Bad Neighborhood- Meet the Cryptowall Virus
It is time to wake up to the new reality of the internet. It can be a very dangerous place. I am an IT guy, and I am really, really good at what I do. This week I saw something that shook me. Meet the Cryptowall virus. It will launch on your system and inflict most of your files with …
Jen’ s Guy vs. Fifty Shades of Grey
OK, I know I am several years behind, but let’s discuss pop literature. I am an English Lit Major, and when I was in college, I went to class with this person: To be honest, I never would have pegged her for somebody who would bend American Pop Culture to her will. But there it is, and as a man, …
Man-day Post: Whither Chivalry. . .
About a week ago, I heard comedian and talk show host Dennis Miller talking about the “momentous” release of hacked nude photographs. The gist of it was, “I didn’t look at the photographs, it really isn’t my thing. I figure that they didn’t want them released, so it wouldn’t be right of me to be out there looking.” And finally, …
Man Day Post- Who Is Trying To Hack Your Website?
JENerally Informed usually gets a minimum of 7 hack attempts each day, sometimes more. Sometimes A LOT more. I’m not talking about spam attempts, which are annoying, but people trying to compromise the security of this site and gain control of it. Some of the attacks are from automated bots (computers looking for a random target.) Others are definitely real …
Man-day Post: Canning your SPAM
Welcome to another installment of Man-day from Jen’s husband, Jen’s Guy! Generally I am a big fan of SPAM. I like it fried with with eggs and veggies. Seriously, how can you not like this? Well, that is unless you are my wife, who inexplicably doesn’t. She IS, however, a very good cook and mother and looks as hot as …
Man-day:Frogmaggedon
We live in Tucson, Arizona, famous for our omnipresent sunshine, except for a couple of months during the summer when we get our Midsummer Monsoons. What the Monsoons mean is that there is a period, from the end of June to the first couple weeks of September, where it could conceivably rain every afternoon. While this is true in theory, …
Man-day: Someone Hates Cheerios Dad. . .Seriously?
OK, First of all, Peanut Butter Cheerios now exist! It’s like taking Captain Crunch and softening the edges so that it doesn’t cut across the roof of your mouth like gravel. Yay! Oh yeah, and the part of the announcement everyone has been talking about, Cheerios Dad: The overall consensus is that this is fully awesome and long overdue in …
Man-day Post: Econ 101, Now With More Mexican Cattle
Here’s a little side note from Jennifer’s article on BlogHer which I hope you have already taken the time to read. Do you ever have moments when information just clicks? Something that takes a really large issue and brings it into a single local issue and suddenly everything makes sense? I’ll show you an example. Here are some Mexican Cows …
Man-day Post: Movies I Love, But Can’t Recommend
I don’t believe that I am alone in my enjoyment of certain things which I am fairly sure others might not enjoy nearly as much as I do. For example, something like Kipper Snacks. Kipper snacks aren’t for everyone, but if you like them you just really like them. It’s like Sardines, but far more photogenic. So I’m going to …
Man-Day Post: The Death of Blogging: Part 2
Continued from last weeks post The Death of Blogging. It’s not about you. One of the things I have noticed is that those who proclaim the death of blogging are really shouting “my blog isn’t doing as well!” Here is a fun excerpt from Wired Magazine circa 2008 (funny how that feels like such an eternity ago in digital time.) …
