Want to Save On Your Amazon Purchase?

If you use the Amazon’s new A9 search engine (which is actually a pretty slick system), you’ll get approximately 1.5% off your Amazon purchase. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me, and a great incentive for people to use the search engine.

On a side note, if you want to send a few pennies my way, you can search for Amazon goods using the form on this site (down in the right column). I think I’ve gotten a total about $.43 (yes, there is a decimal-point there) from it, but I figured I’d plug it anyway.

September 22, 2004

What A Sad World

Barry Bonds’ 700th home run ball was in the hands of an 11-year-old kid before the greedy, heartless buttheads in the stands tore it away from him.

September 22, 2004

A Simple Profit Scheme

This goes under the “Why hasn’t anybody else thought of this?” category:

1) Create duplicate of local parking tickets.

2) Modify them to contain your PO Box.

3) Distribute

4) Profit.

Or something like that.

September 22, 2004

Oprah Car Giveaway Not Totally Free

Leave it to the Government to screw up a great gift:

It turns out that free car wasn’t so free.

That’s because while Pontiac agreed to pay for most of the local charges — things like state sales tax and licensing fees — the recipients have to report the cars as income once tax time comes.

By adding $28,500 to someone’s income, it can push them into a higher tax bracket — which means they will have to pay about 25 percent or more of the car’s value in taxes. And for a nearly $30,000 car, that probably means, for most of the recipients, shelling out $7,125 for the “free car.”

Full Story.

September 22, 2004

Arrest Made in Drake Park Slaying

And he’s one scary looking S.O.B. Previous story about the discovery of the body here.

September 22, 2004

Why I Don’t Trust The Government

Thanks to a “clerical error,” a convicted murderer facing 40 years in prison was let free.

September 22, 2004

WhoFlungDung.Net for Sale

Does anybody want WhoFlungDung.net? I own the domain, don’t have time to do anything with it, it expires soon. I’ll sell it for $10, or will give it to somebody who will put it to good use. Just let me know.

September 22, 2004

Fastest Speeding Ticket in Minnesota History

While they don’t technically keep records on that sort of thing, officials there are pretty dang sure this 205 MPH citation is the largest ticket the state’s given.

September 22, 2004

<church lady>Well isn’t that special…

I’m the number one result on Google for “babysitter sex,” number seven for “man boobs,” number four for “man breasts,” number five for “green poop,” number two for “sex in iraq,” number four for “college panties,” number one (and two) for “woman boobs,” number two for “drunken mom,” and, most disturbing, number 14 for “real doll.”

And I’m also number two for “Bend Bulletin.”

And there are a ton more in my AWStats for the month. I really need to quit looking at those things.

September 21, 2004

Another Body Found in Drake Park

It’s only been five months since the last body was found and charges were filed, and another body was found early this morning and people are scared. Not that I blame them, as I don’t think I’d go down there after about 9:00PM anymore (despite routinely going for runs through the park late at night when I was younger).

September 21, 2004