Oh Awkwardly Worded Spam, It's Hard To Stay Mad At You

Guilty Pleasure of the Evening

I'm ashamed of how much amusement I get out of some spam comments.

Artifact: And Now For a Completely Different User Manual

What the Cleaning of the Old Manuals Produced

Keith Anderson reminisces with an old 16-bit computer game user manual. Humor him and read the post and then download the manual. There are starving children in a third-world country who don't have access to such an artifact.

There's an Apple for That

I'm not sure I should post this online, but going public may be the only way to keep myself safe. Since Apple has filed for a trademark to own "There's an App for That", my world has been turned upside down. Dear Mr. Anderson: Our client, Apple® Inc., is gravely concerned that you have been [...]

The Simpsons: Homer Quits Flashback

Something today reminded me of burning bridges. I always think of this.

In Which I Welcome My FTC Overlords

Dear FTC: I appreciate the time you've taken to visit my blog. Please feel welcome to look around. I've been waiting for you guys to finally notice my blog, or really anybody for that matter. My daily site visits average between 25 and -19. It feels so good to finally have some bigwig from the [...]

BP: The Gift That Keeps on Giving (Oil and Coffee)

This is brilliant. That is all. Related articles by Zemanta BP disaster update: BP spills coffee, birds "cooking" to death in Gulf oil, June 12 protest (boingboing.net) BP Oil Spill Response Parodies Flood YouTube [VIDEOS] (mashable.com)

In Which I Give Blogger Advice

Alison's Real Spelling

Image by TerryJohnston via Flickr Over at Snipe.net, Alison Gianotto (a.k.a. @snipeyhead ) thinks she's all that and a bag of chips on the shoulder. She went a long rant about bloggers giving advice about blogging. Clearly Alison has some kind of bone to pick with douchebaggers everywhere. She might as well have dropped an [...]

Me versus CapitalOne

Image by aprilzosia via Flickr I swear to the best of my memory this is the conversation I had with CapitalOne this morning: Phone: [Unknown Name, Unknown Number] Ring, Ring Me (oblivious to caller-ID): Hello Capital One Rep: [Silence and Clicking] Me (stupidly): Hello? Capital One Rep: [More clicking then the sounds of a sweat [...]

I Feel Validated by Jolie O'Dell's SxSW Experience

Image by ManilaRyce via Flickr It warms my cold, dry, wrinkled heart to know I have left a legacy people can actually use. That's right, my blog. I may not have a fancy book deal. I may spew meaningless parables to my children in hopes they one day make enough money to place me in [...]

Listicle: How To Fit In at Big Meetups

Photo Courtesy of Fred Beecher at SXSW

So you thought you graduated high school went on to college and live in the real world. Unfortunately high school actually was preparation for the real world. Adults are nothing more than grown-up versions of everyone you hated back then. It used to be it hidden by social norms. At least ten or twenty years [...]