I am thinking if Hollywood had their way, this would be the present day version of children at play!
April 19, 2006
Got Milk?
Stephanie commented on an earlier blog I made about how she was contemplating buying a cow to support the milk drinking habit of her 16 year old. Will this one do?
April 11, 2006
Email Stripper
Stephanie is providing me with alot of material as of late. She turned me on to this nifty little utility called Email Stripper and now I’m here to share the bounty! This program is a small little executable that once installed, places an icon on your desktop to launch it. Once I ascertained that it contained no spy-ware, no ad-ware, no mal-ware, I placed it upon my Alienware (Hey, I made a rhyme!).
So what does it do? It’s brilliantly simple. Have you ever gotten one of those emails that’s been forwarded too many times and it looks something like this?
>>>>>Jack & Jill went up the hill,
>>>>>To have a little fun.
>>>>>Stupid Jill forgot her pill,
>>>>>And now they have a son!
Now simply open up the email stripper, copy this into it and click the button. It instantaneously strips the nonsense out of it and leaves you with a crisp and clean version.
Jack & Jill went up the hill,
To have a little fun.
Stupid Jill forgot her pill,
And now they have a son!
It’s brilliant I tell you! Now all one has to do is copy the edited version into a new mail and send it to their buddies without all the silly arrows! A must have for nerdy types such as myself! Thanks Stephanie!
April 10, 2006
Privacy
It seems like every retail establishment operating today has a “Bonus” Card. I know people who have entire wallets or key chains dedicated to them. Of course stores call them “Bonus” Cards in order to fool you into thinking that you are in some way special. I suppose I shouldn’t knock them totally, I mean you get the “Sale” prices & an occasional coupon here and there. What a deal huh?
The trade-off for taking advantage of their “Bonus” Card is pretty much a measure of your own privacy. You fill out an “application”, they assign you a unique barcode, and you shop to your little hearts content. Now lets examine what you generally have given the Retailer…
* Your Name (Application)
* Your Address (Application)
* Your Phone Number (Application)
* Married/Single (Application)
* Number of Children (Application)
* Your age range (Application)
* How often you shop (Scan Data)
* What you buy (Scan Data)
* Coupons you use (Scan Data)
* Money you spend (Scan Data)
* Cash/Check/Charge (Scan Data)
Most of us generally consider this to be a small sacrifice on our part in order for us to take advantage of the “Bonus” buys, and the Retailers are very good about protecting our privacy. It’s not like they are out there selling our private information to “Spammers”. What they are doing however, is marketing an entire targeted customer base.
Think about it… if you happen to be Proctor and Gamble, and you happen to make Pampers baby diapers. Would you rather send some coupons in the mail to a million houses who may or may not have toddlers or would you rather have a million coupons spit out at the cash register to known mommies? You’d probably pay a retailer a good deal of money to put a $1 off coupon in the hands of folks who are most likely to buy your product! It’s a dream come true for the Retailer, they get to “Sell” their customers in a way that doesn’t violate the privacy agreement.
Now you might not think this sounds like a bad deal at all but opponents of such things as a National I.D. Card have put together this little Flash Spoof as the future road we could travel in regards to privacy.
Check it out! <—- Click Here
April 8, 2006
Double Meaning
Here’s another pix I happened across while browsing my collection. It’s one of those images that can be looked at in two different ways. Anyone see it for 10 NightOwl points?
I’m thinking this one is too easy!
January 26, 2006
January 25, 2006
Florida Again
No offense to Stephanie, but there are some…
“I’ll drink Starbucks if I want to”
A while back, I stumbled across a blog done by a fella named Alex Blagg. He made a rant regarding an experience he had at a Starbucks in San Francisco which had me laughing up a storm. The guy has a gift for words, and some of them are quite “Strong”, so don’t say I didn’t warn you about the language.
January 22, 2006
Steelers are going to the “Show”
I just got done watching Pittsburg take the Denver Broncos to “School”. Whoever is doing the Steeler’s play-calling deserves a bonus because he did an awesome job keeping Denver off balance. I’m off to the next game to see the other team going to the Superbowl!
Go “Blitzburg”!!!