I have been sitting on this since last week, never quite sure if it was true or not. Now that Fox has picked it up, it must be true. Right?

I can honestly say, without shame or embarrassment, that I want to have children with this sandwich.

I do have one request for KFC, and that is for more bacon. Seriously, only two slices? I think, nay, I know you can do better.

Here’s the situation: you’ve got an Excel spreadsheet that has first name and last name in the same field. You want to split those into two separate fields so you can sort them.

Enter the “Text to Columns” feature:

1. Highlight the column that contains the full name
2. From the Data menu, select Text to Columns
3. Walk through the next few screens. You want delimited, space.
4. That’s about it.

This would also work for splitting anything else, like a email addresses into domains (delimited on the @), or addresses into city, state, zip fields.

I attended a healthcare “Tele” Town Hall with my congressman today, and I have to give it a big “F”.

The technology is actually rather cool. You pre-register for the event, and then they call you when it starts. Because they know your name and phone number, all you had to do to ask a question was press “0″ to join the queue. The congressman then called on people- “Mary from Scottsdale, you’re next”…

(I should note that my congressman did actually call me, unlike most of those that registered for the Senator Penguins are Drowning event.)

Despite the neat technical aspect, the forum was a miserable failure. First off, the congressman read prepared remarks from a script- something that would not be tolerated in a real town hall. Next, you couldn’t gauge the crowd’s reaction, so that live element was missing. There was no booing or applause.

All that led to a situation where the congressman could easily filibuster. The performance reminded me of a bad radio talk show. He took questions, and then moved on to the next without giving the questioner the opportunity for a follow-up.

It’s pretty easy to control the message when you have complete control over the forum. I’ll be sending a follow-up to the congressman tomorrow to request a real meeting- one complete with booing and angry people.

Hiding behind the phone is a completely unacceptable and cowardly way of communicating with your constituents.

Oh yeah, baby! I can’t think of anything more perfect than a breakfast chalupa.

According to one of the stories, they are piloting the program right here in AZ. But I don’t know where.

And even more surprisingly, Jermaine from 1-800-TACO-BELL doesn’t know where either.

This calls for a reconnaissance mission.

But worry not fellow TB lovers, plans are ready for a nationwide rollout in the next year or so.

I’ve never been able to wrap my head around India. They are the world’s largest democratic government (over 1 Billion people), they have a huge technology industry (ever tried calling IBM tech support?) and a space program.

Yet, most of their population is dirt poor, they still have a very active caste system, and then, there is this:

Indeed it has been know for Indians to marry dogs themselves – take the case of P Selvakumar, 33, who married a stray dog in November 2007 at the local Ganesh temple to atone for his “sin” of killing two dogs 15 years earlier.

Usually, however, they only seek a spouse for their pet. “I have been searching for months, but no luck,” said Kunal Shingla, who is looking for a mate for Foster, his two-year-old basset hound.

Yep, they marry their dogs. In both senses of the phrase.

Click through to the original article for the best headline ever.

Don’t get any ideas… they are patent pending.

Do yourself a favor and wait for/skip ahead to about 1:49.

…is kind of easy, kind of hard.

Easy, in that it only takes a few minutes to install and get the basic functions up and running.

Hard, in that if you actually want your emails delivered to other people, you have quite a bit of configuring to do.

You see, those SPAM bastards have made it pretty hard to prove that your email server is legit, so there are an amazing amount of hoops to jump through on your way to trying.

And each email host (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, rocketmail, juno, etc…) has their own ways of trying to kill SPAM. So you have to try to comply with all of their methods if you want your email to go through.

Oh, well. Tomorrow is another day. And it’s bound to be full of DNS entries, SPF records, and other fun acronyms I’ve never heard of.

BTW, +1000 bonus points if you ever had a rocketmail account. -1000 bonus points if you also had a Juno account.

… and apparently on 90% of U.S. currency.

Source: CNN

The Guild Wars 2 trailer dropped today. ’nuff said…

I’ve always hated the word fiancé, but I never knew that I also had to hate the word fiancée.

It turns out you are supposed to spell the word differently based on if the person you are referencing is a male or a female. (Fiancé(e) being annoyingly French, it takes a male or female form.)

Grammar Girl did the work of finding out what you’d call a whole group of peeps that were waiting to be married…

[...] the proper way to identify a group of male and female people engaged to be married is to call them “affianced couples” or simply “the affianced.” “Affiance,” the verb, is pronounced with the emphasis on the middle syllable: \uh-FYE-unss\

Here’s an example sentence from Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged:

The affianced couple will marry next month.

Only slightly less archaic and annoying. $1,000,000,000 to the person who comes up with a better word.