Archive for the 'General' Category

Oh, hail.

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Customer service: Two case studies

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Two recent experiences I’ve had with customer service:
1. Woot.com had a fake Wootoff on April Fool’s Day. Interspersed with the mundane battery sales were bags of Random Crap. For Woot neophytes, the Random Crap is like a holy grail: usually it really is crap, but some lucky folks get jackpots like Wiis, Xbox [...]

Mixtape

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I just found a mixtape from summer ‘89.
Side A:
Evil Ways - Santana
Hey You - Pink Floyd
Satisfy My Soul - Bob Marley
Lemon Song - Led Zeppelin
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
Threshold - Steve Miller Band
Slow and Easy - Whitesnake
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Bauhaus
Great Gig in the Sky - Pink [...]

Was that a threat?

Friday, April 4th, 2008

From: deecookhaters@gmail.com
Subject: Dear Dee
Date: April 4, 2008 3:02:45 PM CDT
To: me atsign addlepated.net
Your quest to ruin Sid Mournings life has came to my attention. Have you ever wondered if he has children? Have you ever wondered if you are hurting his daughter? Well we are here to ruin your life regardless if he has children [...]

Uncanny

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

I do doubletakes every time I see Rushmore and come away with the feeling that I just visited my father. The resemblance is really uncanny.

Synchronicity

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Synchronicity for this week:
Mama Ninfa Laurenzo (Hub was talking about her inventing fajitas and so was this week’s Soup Peddler menu.
Frank Gehry (he was on The Simpsons as well as in a Metafilter post.

Tidbits

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

I ran into people talking about gutta percha three times in the last week. I’d never heard of it before.
I got invited to join the honors society at school.
I also submitted a paper about Disney’s parks and how they relate to Fisher’s Narrative Theory for presentation at SOURCE, my school’s annual conference, and it [...]

Cloverfield

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Just got back from Cloverfield. I loved it. I haven’t been that riveted by an action film since the first Jurassic Park.
Predictably, Hub hated it. He prefers more formulaic, wrapped-up Hollywood films. Some spoilers follow.

Disturbing trend

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I know of two large online communities (in the tens of thousands of users) that have disabled the ability to privately message or email other users, and have outlawed the discussion of personal contact information on the boards. This seems to me to be defeating the purpose of a community per se, by not [...]

Celebrating the writer’s strike coming to an end…

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Which Battlestar Galactica Character Are You?Created by BuddyTV
Which Jericho Character Are You?Created by BuddyTV
What is Your Fate on Lost?Created by BuddyTV