Monthly Archive for August, 2010

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Facebook CAPTCHA Adds Interesting Commentary on Friends

Published on August 13, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 1 Comment Tags: , .

A while ago, I wrote how even Facebook thought I was annoying.

I’m still trying to build up my circle of fake friends for a Facebook account, but since Facebook thinks I’m a troll or a spammer, I’m required to fill out the damned CAPTCHA for every friend request I make.

As I observed, the CAPTCHAs attached to females seemed to be a running commentary. But since Facebook suspended my friending activities for a while, I couldn’t check out to see if the same was true for guys.

I forgot about it until now.
Herewith are my findings: Somebody at Facebook is attaching CAPTCHA comments based on facial recognition or profile information.

The Terminus


Full Breezes


Reporter Extruded


Daffiest At


Two Furries


His Shambled


The Depleted


Nursery Rapkin


Has Arrogant


Nibbles Be

I guess it’s no wonder I can’t find any friends – I guess they think I’m annoying too.

What a Bunch of Armatures

Published on August 12, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 1 Comment Tags: .


Tuesday is Amature Drag Night in Smallburg.

For inspiration, I Googled “amature” and surprise, surprise, most of the websites that came up were porn. Same for images. Same for videos. Googling “amature drag”, delivered the image above *shudder*

Amateurs.

What is even freakier is this sign may have passed through five Kentuckians.

  1. The righter of the sign copy.
  2. The deliverance of the sign copy to the sign shop.
  3. The counter werker at the sign shop.
  4. The sing maker.
  5. The sign installor.

I’m sure when confronted, the sign righter would say it was intenshunul. “Got cheer attenshun, din’t it?” s/he (dressed in drag) would say.

What a bunch of armatures.

Hello Steven Slater? Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Wright (Brother!)

Published on August 11, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 0 Comments Tags: , , .


So Steven Slater is now a hero among the service class? A passenger on the plane reported this recollection of his rant on the Jet Blue flight.

I didn’t take notes so the following is not exact, but a paraphrase: “F— you! F— all of you! I’m f—— through with this! I’VE HAD IT! I’ve been doing this for 28 f—— years and I can’t take it anymore. And for the f—– a—–who told me to f— off: f— you! That’s it! I’m done! F— you all!”

This loon came to this conclusion…

Overall, it got me to thinking: in a way it’s a shame things like this don’t happen more often. … Sometimes, in other words, people need to rip off their masks of social nicety and express feelings that are normal.

Hopefully there is a silent majority of us who remember that two wrongs don’t make a right.

Everybody was wrong in this case, but so far, I haven’t read any commentary that has anything but glowing praise for Steven Slater who totally lost control of a situation and exacerbated it by deploying a device that could have killed someone on the ground, leaped onto TSA controlled territory, tore through the airport, and drove home – all in a stage of rage!

People are setting up Facebook fan pages, raising money for his defense, supporting his actions.  Most of the reaction is like this from FlyerTalk.com

Originally Posted by Dben5il@aol.com View Post

If there was ever a time to contribute to a legal defense fund?
Where do I send my cheque or will FA, opps I mean Mr Slatter
accept PayPal. He may have been wrong but in our hearts
we know he was right

Hopefully as these initial signs of support from “poor, overworked” service sector dies down, others will come forward and remember: two wrongs don’t make a right.

Black Smoke Rolling From Chimney: Quick Google It and See If We’re Gonna Die

Published on August 9, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 5 Comments Tags: , , .


As an owner of Google, I naturally feel obligated to use their services as often and as much as possible. Why just mere minutes ago I Google Searched ™ is it down for everyone to find DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com.

I map my kayaking using Google Maps, email via Gmail, Flickr.com to grab photos like the one above, or Google Images. Google News, Google this and Google that, if it can’t be Googled it isn’t worth it.

However if black smoke was rolling from the chimney of my house, I would not rush to Google. You would have to be a total idiot to do this.

Total.

Idiot.

Enter Christine Garton and hubby:

About an hour after warming up our fireplace, my husband and I were startled by the rumbling sound of what we thought was a low flying helicopter. My husband darted outside to look for one, but there was nothing of any aircraft in sight. He did tell me about the thick billowing smoke coming from our chimney.

Nervous, I quickly Googled “chimney fires” and within a second the first link caught my attention. At this site I learned that the rumbling sound is what many people hear when their chimney have caught fire! I then called 911 and they advised us to get out of the house right away!

And if you have a Google story, tell Google about it. Just make it as stupid as this one, please.

UPDATE: I just Googled it and Flickr.com is owned by Yahoo.com.

Geeky Animated Gif Monday

Published on August 9, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 4 Comments

Speaking of sagging, I have let commenting sag because I installed Intense Debate Plug in which didn’t send me emails letting me know of comments.

Sorry, I deactivated it – because I don’t really need it, just thought it looked cool. If comments are lost in the transition, I apologize.