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The fine people at PayPerPost.com have just posted the video of Postie Patrol #3, a coordinated effort along with HP. The PayPerPost marketing team and an HP representative braved the frigid Chicago weather to bring Robyn Nykaza a slew of HP goods and a thousand dollars in cold (no, seriously it really was cold!) hard cash. You’ll have to watch the video yourself to see if she won and will be able to do some serious Digital Photo Printing. It’s well worth your time to watch anyway, those PayPerPost folks looks like an absolute blast to hang out with.
Oh, and a personal note to Ted: Be careful catfishing in that cold weather! I was worried that your lips might get frozen to the glass! The weather isn’t so cold out here in SoCal, so drop by anytime (and bring that HP rep and his goods along with you!).
So my wife went to Canada to visit family, and she was going to bring some coffee beans for her mum. I went to the TSA’s website to make sure that coffee beans are not on the list of disallowed items list (who knows why they would be, but I wouldn’t be surprised for some reason). I figured that rather than calling the airport or the TSA, it would make sense to check their website.
Turns out that their site crashes Safari as soon as it loads. I figured, being a webmaster myself, that I should be a good Netizen and let them know. Turns out they don’t care. Awesome. Here’s my email to them and their response:
To: tsa-contactcenter@dhs.gov
Category: Website Feedback
Message:
Just thought I would let you know that your website crashes the latest version of Safari. If you’re going to be disseminating such allegedly important information that is so essential to national security, you might want to make sure that it’s accessible to everyone no matter what browser they’re using. Thanks.
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Date and Time of message: 12/24/2006 2:04:43 AM
Re: Customer Service Feedback <<#45237-93139#>> Inbox
TSA-ContactCenter to me
More options Dec 27 (4 days ago)
Thank you for your e-mail message.
So that we can better assist you we encourage you to call us at 1-866-289-9673 for assistance. If you are outside the United States and cannot use the toll-number, please call us at 1-571-227-2900.
I have to admit it…I love Nascar and PBR. (That’s “Professional Bull Riding” for those of you unfamiliar, or for those of you who might think I’m talking about good old Pabst Blue Ribbon, which I also love). Yes, this California boy does love some himself some cowboy sports.
I think most of my amazement with the sport, and admiration for the riders, is that it is a pure battle of man and beast. It’s eight seconds in which the life of one man is in the hands of a half ton of beef and a clown, and damn is it exciting. Where else can you get this kind of excitement besides at the PBR Finals?
The 2007 Professional Bull Riders World Finals will be taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 26-28 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center and November 1-4 at the Thomas and Mack Center. I know it’s a little early to start planning for this, but it’s well worth your time. The popularity of this event makes tickets hard to get, so start planning early and do some research into your PBR Tickets right now.
A good friend of mine has been going to the PBR World Finals in Vegas for years. He goes with the whole family, and has a great time watching the bull riding and hanging out in Vegas. I have always wanted to go, but have never been able to. Hopefully one day I will join the fun and actually see this epic man-beast battle live instead of having to watch it on TV.
Life has been busy, loyal readers! Christmas and the holiday season always seem to keep me busy. Fortunately I have a few days off of work, during which I hope to catch up on house work, neglected blogging, and many other matters that have been neglected in favor of family and holiday obligations. Mainly I need to find an apartment, that’s the major goal of the week.
Anyway, enough about me. Merry belated Christmas to all of you, and congratulations on surviving the family and madness of Christmas! Have a great week, I’ll try to keep this up more regularly for the next few days…I have an article that I need to write about that a good friend of mine gave me (thanks Bev!), and will hopefully have some good comments on that too.
OK, so “King of the Posties” Ted from PayPerPost has come upon some HP digital cameras, and has asked me to post why exactly I deserve one of those delightful little devices. Here it goes:
Ted my man, catfish extrordinaire, I really deserve one of those fine HP digital cameras. I have been digital cameraless for…well, forever. During that time (forever, just to remind you), I have done so many great things that should have been documented with some beautiful 6 megapixel digital photos, but unfortunately went undocumented because of my lack of digital camera and my disdain for regular film cameras.
For example, one of my cats just did the cutest thing. My wife is grading papers, and my cat was lying on the bed next to her. Somehow my cat grabbed one of my wife’s pencils that she was using, and was holding it between her paws and looking so cute. She looked ready to do some work, pencil in paws, and I really think that she wanted to help my wife grade papers.
I would have posted pictures of her, but now my faithful readers will never get to see pictures of just about the cutest cat in the world. That means you won’t see any pictures of my cat either, Mr. Catfish Man. Honestly this is quite a travesty, but it’s not nearly the best thing that has been missed because of my lack of digital camera.
Oh, oh, and get this…as if that wasn’t enough, I am going to be wifeless this year for Christmas. She’s going to visit her family this year, and I’ll be staying at home with mine. It’s just how things worked out this year. If I had done of those nice HP digital cameras, I could take pictures of our Christmas, email them to my wife, and it would be like she was there. Or the other way around.
But alas, I have no HP digital camera from PayPerPost so we’ll both just have to imagine what each other’s Christmas celebrations were like. And my poor cat’s ego will never get any bigger than it already is unless she gets to be an Internet superstar through the magic of digital photography.
So how’s that, Ted? What say you? Don’t I deserve one of those nice new cameras? Huh? Huh? Do I? Pleeeeze?
If you haven’t seen this documentary, it is well worth your time. If you ever find yourself wondering where your tax money goes, or why we even pay taxes to begin with, this documentary makes a lot of sense. Also if you wonder why you’re always in debt, and why they like it that way, this money also makes a lot of sense.
At this time of year, many shopper’s credit cards get quite a workout. Unfortunately the fleeting Christmas morning joy that these credit card workouts bring is paid for with years of in debtedness.
I don’t want to say that credit cards are entirely bad. Used properly, they can be a very powerful tool for the accumuaton of wealth, but used inproperly they can lead to nightmares and headaces.
The best way to stay out of trouble is to be wary of your spending habits, and kee it under control. You might also want to monitor some sort of credit card news and credit card advice on the web to help you stay in control.
Basically, just be smart about it. Learn the difference between good and bad debt and use your money wisely. Oh, and have a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, joyous Kwanzaa, or a merry happy joyous Annual Celebration of His Noodly Goodness.
For those of you who don’t know, I absolutely love Nine Inch Nails. Trent puts out some great music, and puts on a hell of a show. Sometimes, apparently not often enough however, I check out their website. There’s a section there simply called TR, which is sort of Trent’s sounding board. This is what Trent posted on 12/13/2006:
“Is it possible I am actually finished writing and recording a new nine inch nails record? Apparently so. We begin mixing in January! Juggling fifteen all-new tracks around. Testing sequences. No leftovers from “with teeth”. Highly conceptual. Quite noisy. Fucking cool.”
Wow. That is fucking great news. With Teeth was well worth the long wait, but the prospect of not wwaiting five years for new NIN is awesome. Good work Trent, I look forward to the new album!
I’m not really sure what to say about this except that you absolutely have to watch it. Justin Timberlake plus Saturday Night Live to the power of Lonely Island always is greater than or equal to simply awesome.
And with that extremely obscure sentence out of the way, on with the video:
The weather isn’t so cold out here in SoCal, so drop by anytime (and bring that HP rep and his goods along with you!).