Family Times Magazine Article

Just a quick note to any of my readers who live in Florida, the latest issue of Family Times Magazine features an article I wrote on page 20. It’s about internet slang and the top 25 terms parents should know.

I’ve been dabbling in freelance lately, so if you’re interested in a fresh new writer, drop me a line. it’s ryan at noslang dot com … but you probably already knew that.

October 26th, 2006

Hey You Damned Kids Get Off My Lawn

Wow, I feel like an old man. I was watching TV last night waiting for FOX to tell us if the world series was going to be cancelled or not when I heard a noise outside.

Before I get to that though, what was up with FOX? Apparantley the rain was over 25 miles wide on the radar, and they strung us along anyway just so their crappy “war at home” show could get viewers. They could have made that decision within 30 min of the scheduled start time, not 2 hours.

Ok, so I hear this noise right.. and I look outside to see 3 kids kicking over all the trash cans on my street. WTF??

Since I’ve had my car broken into in my driveway 3 times so far, (prior to buying materials from lumber yards Colorado Springs and getting a fence installed) I called the police on them. Man do I feel old.. I’d have never done that before. In fact, a few years ago I’d probably have had friends who’ve done that stuff before.

Speaking of criminals, This has to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long long time.

Anyway, I just wanted to rant a little bit to break that whole “newsy” type feel again.

October 26th, 2006

City of ChesaThief

Just when you think you’re doing an act of goodwill, the city of Chesapeake turns around and spits in your face. At least, that’s what happened recently when a Massachusets based software company finally handed the chesapeake.com domain name over to the city of Chesapeake – after 10 years of being bugged about it.

That’s right, the city of Chesapeake bugged this software company for 10 years to give them the domain for free… 10 years! Eventually the software company gave in and donated the name to the city.


So what did the city do with this generous gift? Why they sold it for $120,000, that’s what they did. And people wonder why more people don’t donate things. Here’s your answer.

The city of Chesapeake should be ashamed of themselves. At the very least, they should donate the $120,000 to the software company that donated them the domain. There’s a difference between being given a gift, and pestering somebody until they finally give in.

October 26th, 2006