soapbox

My friend Brianne is up to #4 in the voting and made the first cut, check it out:

Really, pretty remarkable on several fronts, and a very clever bit of advermarketing by Solo.

I saw this in a facebook sidebar ad, check it out:

I’m pretty sure that (a) I’m not going to jump through the dubious hoops at chooseyourcolor.com and (b) that it’s a spray-on recolorized Mac, not one with Orange anodization, but still pretty fun given that K still has an Orange clamshell iBook running around.

First, a triple-shot of holy-crap-has-mlb-gone-in-the-crapper. Selig denies he should share in the blame, the Players Union is clueless, etc.

All of this, however, pales in comparison to the story out of Luzerne County, PA, where a judge and a colleague plead guilty to fraud and for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send ~ 750 teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers. That’s some seriously sick shit. And the sad part is, I’m not surprised. Our ‘criminal injustice’ system is so far out of whack, so far into the “for-profit” business, it’s not funny.

Not sure what to say on this one, other than I’m pretty sure it’s for real?

1234567890 Day: On this Friday, Feb 13 at exactly 3:31:30 PM (PST), Unix time will equal ‘1234567890′.

This year’s snow sculpture is just a pile of snow…called Mt. Moosilauke.

Here is the story of K’s experience this past week with Time Warner. As background, we currently have the cheapest cable/internet package (since we can’t have just internet by itself).

K has been getting repeated calls from Time Warner this past week, but since they haven’t been leaving messages she didn’t bother calling back or anything. Yesterday she accidentally answered their call, and naturally it was computer-dialed.

K: “Hello?”

other end “… (2 seconds of silence)… umm, hello? ”

K: “Yeah, hi.”

The customer service lady then notified us that we were probably paying too much for cable – but of course in order to pay less we’d have to get a 3-way bundle including a land line. When notified that we don’t want a land-line, she responded with “well, you know, a lot of people are getting normal phones because of, you know, the radiation.” (Think Dubya saying ‘nukyalar’.)

K then reassured her that we really weren’t interested in paying more money to get a land-line that we wouldn’t use, to which the rep responded “good luck with that.” Apparently her tone was comparable to what would be used if informed that your plan for retirement was to play the lottery.

So yeah, nice job Time Warner, way to hire a winning team.