We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.

So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.

This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.

There are gambling addictions and then there are steal-$1.5 million-from-your-company-and-blow-it-all-on-video-poker-at-a-convenience-store addictions. In the case of Pat Janowski, who embezzled the cash while working as a bookkeeper at Cape Software, it is most definitely the latter.

Commenter Gary Packwood asked the obvious question:

What kind of business can lose $14 Grand a month and not know it?

Thieves suck answered him:

Cape Software in Spring.

Sometimes, the simple answer is the best.

Jeff Balke is a writer, editor, photographer, tech expert and native Houstonian. He has written for a wide range of publications and co-authored the official 50th anniversary book for the Houston Rockets.