Archive for April, 2004
Compared to last years power duo of Kimberly Locke and Clay Aiken, this years version of American Idol has been a snoozefest. Diana DeGarmo (the only person left from whom I might buy music) started out nearly the bottom of my favorites list. Who else am I supposed to like? Mantasia? The only album from [...]
According to the radio commercials of a large american conglomerate, “the conversation never ends with &”. McDonald’s should license this to make it a part of the Hamburger University curriculum: “The sentence never ends with and”.
I went to a local restaurant the other morning and ordered two breakfast burritos (formerly part of the dollar menu) [...]
In research for another blog entry I did some “research” on Google and did a search for ampersand (the single character). I found the top 5 results amusing:
Barnes & Noble.com AT_&_T: The World’s Networking Company Food and Drug Administration Home Page United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page MapQuest: Home
Which one of these just doesn’t seem to [...]
The package of SweeTarts Jelly Beans I am looking at contains six flavors: Orange, Cherry, Lemon, Grape, Green Apple, and Blue Punch. Can anyone explain what “flavor” Blue Punch is?
When they say that the internet is clogged with spam, does that really mean it is just constipated?
On American Idol last night, Quentin Tarantino told Diana DiGarmo: “Diana you pulled off the song, but so what? You pulled off the notes and stuff, but I don’t care.” Its good to hear a guest judge who actually has the balls to judge the contestants.
My next project which I will probably never work on will be to post a guide on how to ask questions when you are posting to an online bulliten board. Examples are taken from the Apple Discussions board, starting with the AppleScript section:
First of all, make sure to choose a good suject for the post, [...]
Him and everybody else. Wal-Mart was a madhouse this evening…at 11:30pm, in a place where the sidewalks are rolled up at 9:30. The parking lot was still full of cars when we finally were able to leave at 1:00am. It hasn’t been that bad since the day-after Thanksgiving.
If you really are out to get me, please let me know so I don’t have to be paranoid.
For all of those who would like to laugh at my horrible picks in the NCAA tournament pool, I would like to enter the following evidence from (by far, with 126 entries) the largest pool I was entered:
Congratulations to the National Champion Connecticut Huskies and to this year’s contest winners: First: Jeff [...]