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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: humor
Boy, are we in trouble…
Child has us all figured out. For example, child has figured out that Mama and Papa’s carefully-crafted “you’re in trouble” façades are, in fact, just that. Or at least he’s figured out how to change “you’re in trouble” to “you’re … Continue reading
Project 365: 19
I’m not sure what scares me more – that someone wanted/managed to import an old highway patrol car, or that they would pretend to… (taken surreptitiously with my iPhone because I was afraid that the owner was one of the … Continue reading
Project 365: 13
In Germany, not even hotel fires are spontaneous.
UPS’s own employees making the business look bad on the Internet
I’m sure most UPS employees are fine people with a stressful job. I should say, however, that next to search queries for how to get rid of U3 on a thumb drive, the most popular query for this site is … Continue reading
My funny, funny little guy
Here at Haus Grothoff, we have a little red squirrel friend who likes to climb up the wall of the apartment building that’s about two meters from our house and sit on a window ledge watching us eat breakfast. Usually … Continue reading
To all of Torsten’s fans…
So I know everyone has been waiting with bated breath for more Mr. T posts, especially since he just turned a year old and is in the process of taking over the world and all. In fact, I know for … Continue reading
In honor of where we’ll be spending the next week-and-a-half or so…
The visuals are cheesy here (YouTube is just full of people setting cheesy visuals to music), but since it’s a cheesy song, and the cheesy song is the point, I give you this courtesy of the InterTubes: More later when … Continue reading
Tricky baby…
I am so… freaking… tired. Day five in the “Papa is out-of-town” marathon, and let me just say that Mama is glad tomorrow is the last full day of it, because… cripes (N.B.: I can’t believe that just came out … Continue reading
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Colbert on the so-called “Protect America Act”
Hilarious. Also excellent use of things I hate about text-messaging, and fun with robo-calls!
A word to the not-so-wise…
Sometime in, oh, I don’t know… April of this year, I made a snarky tongue-in-cheek post about the AOL generation trying to reproduce and some of the very special things (especially the very special acronyms) the folks on the “TTC” … Continue reading
