Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

In Woburn, MA there is a car dealership. Lawless Chrysler. Like many car dealerships they give out license plate holder with their name on it. An like many other states, Massachusetts has part of it’s state motto on the license plate.

So, nowing the status of Massachusetts drivers it was no small surprise to look at a car in the parking lot and see this on the back: “The Spirt of America: Lawless”.

In the cafeteria at work there are several TVs which play CNN thoughout the day. I figured they had a satelite feed into the building. Nope. It’s streaming through Windows Media Player. I noticed this today when the TVs weren’t playing…and the WiMP window was instead, with an error message on the screen with the text “Catastrophic Failure.”

Aren’t they all?

According to a report on the radio: 25% of Massachusetts Tourism occurs during the Autumn months.

Next up: researchers amazed that 25% of days in year appear during the Autumn months.

I stopped at Circuit City on the way home from work to take advantage of their 110% Primematch Guarantee. Staples advertised the same 25 disc Memorex 4x DVD-R media I had bought a week earlier for $20 less. The first Customer Service person I talked to said no, they were not the same item. (The SKU number Staples used didn’t match the UPC code, so there was no way they could be the same item.)

Person number two was smart enough to look at the picture in the ad and the spindle I had brought up to customer service to say she thought they were the same. So they had a third person come look at the ad. I think he took it to the back and actually called Staples. So after twenty minutes and three clerks I finally had my PriceMatch guarantee.

While I was waiting for this simple transaction to take place I was watching commercials for the news when theis story caught my ear: “A teenager and a toddler are injured at the zoo. We talk to them both at 6.” Really.

Sometimes spammers make me laugh. Like this selection from RBC Offers for LogoSaur:

Many companies brand their email solicitations as Opt-in. However, RBCOffers believes in true permission-based marketing. When a subscriber joins our network and provides us with his/her demographics and areas of interest, it’s just the beginning of our Opt-in process.

The second step is we send a confirmation email to verify that the subscriber truly wants to receive the pertaining subject matter. The final step is we further confirm the authenticity of the record by matching it against our licensed consumer database of 193 million individual consumers.

After this is completed, then, and only then, is the record included in our exclusive confirmed file.

If this is all true, then how did a non-existant address wind up in their database? No one has ever used the sales@ email address on my domain…yet it manages to get mail. How comforting words of a spammer are.