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If Microsoft Emails Me, I am SO Screwed.

Published on July 22, 2008 in Holy Shit! Lookit This! and Technology. 0 Comments

Google and our cable system - Insightcom.com both have communicated with me today. Both have been very nice conversations. I am better off because we communicated.

Google wanted me to know that our secret deal is still OK and is progressing nicely. They will be in touch in the next few weeks with the details. I removed the post about them as they requested too. Sergey and Brin, buds, I’m still your man in Kentucky.

Insight decided that I needed another video camera. So they are sending me one.

Congratulations! You are one of our four lucky winners to receive a Flip Video Ultra Camera just for being an Insight customer!

Attached is the winner release form. Please fill it out and return to me by email or by fax to 917-XXX-23XX.

Yeah, that had scam written all over it, right? So I called the local Insightcom.com office and got a really nice CSR. She said she would check because if corporate sent out emails to local customers, they usually got a copy. She checked, no dice. She said it didn’t come from them.

Yikes! I opened the attachment in Google Docs, so felt safe from any malware.

Then the CSR did the unthinkable. She said, “give me the number and I’ll call it.” Wow. Great idea. As she is calling, I’m Google (R) searching the name. Found it! And Google told me alot about the person from Insight.

Google affirmed the identity of another Giant Media Corporation’s employee.

Kewl.

AND - get this! The person is an adventure racer.

Adventure racing is one of the few sports where just completing a race is considered a victory. It allows runners, hikers, climbers, bikers, and paddlers to participate and compete in new and challenging events. Large expedition competition races are over 300 miles and can take up to 10 days to complete, while sprint races can take only an hour or two. Adventure racing not only challenges the body but the mind as well. Competitors must always travel together as a team, putting an emphasis on teamwork rather than individual achievement.

I love the innerwebs!

Google is working for me. Google is working with me. I got a free video cam from a person who works for Giant Media Company who has a hugely exciting hobby.

I love the innerwebs. I’m glad I have Insight as my connection to the innerwebs. We’ve had our setbacks in the pass, Insightcom.com and I. But send me a gift and all is well.

But if Microsoft contacts me, I will be so screwed. Bill Gates is a Prick. If Microsoft contacts me, it probably will be to upgrade me to Vista.

I TOLD You It Wasn’t Lost! It Was With the Other Valuables

Published on July 20, 2008 in Empty Nesters, Shopping and Technology. 3 Comments

Things never get lost around our house, they just disappear for a short while and the pop back into view. Is it the same at your house or are you just so organized that if it’s gone, you know it will never return?

Thus is the case with our video camera. It decided to reveal it’s hiding place whilst I was rummaging around for some other treasure. It was in a closet not six feet from where I sit. Inside one of those storage boxes, but nonetheless it was right on top.

Now I can’t wait for the battery to charge to see what’s on that tape!

Also in the box were other electronic gadgets that I just couldn’t throw away.

We all have a dozen unused remotes, right? Or is that just me? So what will we accumulate in the next couple of years?

mouses
film cameras
digital cameras
headsets
miles and miles of cables
power supplies

The stuff that just looks too new and too usable to get rid of when a replacement comes into the house.

Outcry for Naked Olympics Ensues. Except for Wrestling, High Jump, and Table Tennis

Published on July 8, 2008 in Education, Entertainment and Technology. 2 Comments

L ast evening I was going all ga-ga over the 41 year old woman who made the Olympic team, explaining in great detail to Nancy how this is possible because swimming is low impact, how training techniques have improved, how swimming requires as much lung capacity as it does muscle tone. (I only had to nudge Nanc’ a few times to pay attention.) Only once did she interject the word: “steroids.”

But I forgot the real reason she not only qualified, she set a NEW. WORLD. RECORD. She is wearing a cheater swim suit.

The LZR Racer is a whiz-bang swimsuit developed by Speedo. Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy share one.

So of course, Dana Torres, a 41 year old woman is qualified for her fourth olympics in eleven events! She is a cheetah, a sheetah!

Of course the only answer to the constantly improving technology screwing up the records set by the Greeks.

Naked Olympics.

For example (caution: nakedness) Except the runners would be in much better shape. Hopefully.

Summer and Winter. I don’t want to see naked wrestlers, high jumpers or table tennisers. I would love to see naked Curling. Where is Vince McMahon and the WWE when we need them? Pure pay-per-view gold, silver, and paper (money)