December 2010
38 posts
“Decades ago, people remembered things by sending letters back and forth as...”
– How I generally respond to someone online when they say they haven’t met me “in real life.”
Jason Mraz covers the Michael Jackson song...
Hooray!
UPS responded to my email yesterday with both an apology and an offer to refund my shipping costs (both of which are definitely appreciated, neither of which are necessary).
I’ve also received three — THREE — phone calls from UPS customer service people, one of which I now follow on Twitter.
The Kindle arrived tonight around 5:30pm. What a magnificent device. I had no idea how awesome this...
All First-Class Postage Stamps To Be Christened... →
Postage stamps, like diamonds, are soon to be “forever.” However, unlike a diamond, your girl will smack you if your idea of romance is buying her a book of stamps.
UPS: It Happens All The Time
Hello to the friendly Twitter folks at UPS… I hate to be another person complaining about your service, but I can’t seem to get a package to my apartment on time to save my life. Maybe the UPS driver hates me, or maybe he’s afraid of the security guard that leers outside my apartment gate, giving people the evil eye as they drive into the complex…dude creeps me out...
Uhh...Wait, What?
Two stories I recently found of interest:
Setting Your Gay Daughter Straight
Getting The Gay Son You’ve Always Wanted
(The amazing thing is, they’re from the same online publication…and the same author. I later realized this is a satire blog…)
Where NOT To Foursquare
I don’t use Foursquare, but it’s pretty hard to avoid. Lately, I’ve noticed quite a few Foursquare “check-ins” on Twitter, which is irritating for a few reasons.
One, syndicating your Foursquare on Twitter clogs my feed, preventing me from catching conversations and links from actual human beings as opposed to syndication robots. Second, syndicating posts is pretty...
well, whaddaya want? news, information or...
Infonewsment.
“Near the beginning of the video, a masked person is visible, along with various...”
– When 12-year-olds are allowed to edit Wikipedia, THIS HAPPENS.
Mental Vacation
Sorry, Tumblr. My lack of attention toward you isn’t deliberate.
(though perhaps if you didn’t have massive server issues a few weeks back, I’d have paid more attention…)
CBS News: Westboro Baptist Church To Picket... →
Are you kidding me? These guys are a joke.
“The grandmother of the family gets drunk from drinking too much eggnog, and, due...”
– How Wikipedia describes the Christmas novelty song “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.” There’s something humorous about how Wikipedia editors attempt to rationalize Grandma’s staggering outside into a snowstorm…
Porn Industry's Patient Zero: I'm Proud To Have...
A man previously known as “Patient Zero,” who caused panic throughout California’s porn industry after testing positive for the HIV bug, slammed the clinic that diagnosed him in an interview released Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times. Derek Burts, who performed as Cameron Reed in straight pornographic films and as Derek Chambers in gay films, told the LA Times that he likely...
“The benefit is their brand is now regarded as being one that cares, that...”
– Chatting with a friend of mine about how KXTV uses social media versus social marketing. Posted here for bookmarking purposes.
Reality > Pessimism
Changing your default photo on Facebook to a cartoon character may give you a momentary feeling that you’ve “done something,” but you haven’t (though the half-effort should be recognized).
It’d be nice to think that changing your profile picture to Scooby Doo or Papa Smurf or Homer Simpson for a day brings awareness to child abuse, but instead it makes you come off...
Keane & Faultline Goodbye Yellow Brick Road...
