I just heard a bit of a news conference by John Rigas, the owner of Adelphia Communications who was convicted of stealing $100 million from his company, basically just for fun money. I’m not clear on whether the news conference was from today, when the 80-year-old Rigas was sentenced to spend 20 years in jail,… Read More oops.

Apparently the Visa debit card issued by my bank is one of the kazillion credit accounts that were breached at a credit card processing company in Tuscon. My bank called me today, said they had canceled my old card and ordered me a new one. I’ve been impressed with how my bank, Citizens National Bank… Read More charge.

I just noticed that the Sun Records catalogue has been added to the iTunes music store. This is very good news for me. And not such good news for my wallet.

So The Wife and I attended a tasting session at a new brewery in Pittsburgh’s East End — the appropriately named East End Brewing Co. — on Saturday afternoon. While we were there, I picked up a couple of specialty tabs that cover craft brewing in the East and Midwest. I just got about to… Read More big time.

I just noticed that one of today’s Uncle Crappy’s readers visited from a computer with a domain emanating from the U.S. Department of Justice. Holy crap. To my friends in federal law enforcement: Did I mention that I’m an honorably discharged Army veteran? That I’m a regular voter? That I’ve always been an admirer of… Read More gulp.

At the risk of sounding like I’m still obsessing over my pending high school reunion (I’m not. Really.), I’m asking Uncle Crappy readers for some help with my efforts to build a new and improved version of Turbo Pinto. A little background: I almost completely rebelled against the whole idea of reunions when the 15-year… Read More a little help.