Still sick, With Random Notes

Still laid up with a cold. Have about 4,000 links to post, no time/energy to do it. I’m up right now because my daughter made a mess in her diaper, and it was my turn to change her. So I decided to grab a snack, blog a note, and I’m heading back to bed.

On a random positive note, we had rain-gutters installed today. I know that everybody who knows Central Oregon at all knows that you don’t need them at often, but the one problem with the way our house was built is that all the water that flows off the roof flows into two places — above the front and back doors. So gutters were installed in those places. They were a gift from my parents for my birthday (which was back in May). They were here at the butt-crack of dawn to install them, but after they did, you could barely see they were there as they were painted to match the house. It’s actually pretty dang slick, and they have a lifetime warranty on installation and leaks.

On a random negative note, the ad shoot I’m doing with Simone for work had to be put off another day because of nasty weather. Hopefully it’ll clear up tomorrow and we’ll be able to get the shots I need for this ad campaign I’m doing. I’ve got 10-days until deadline at this point, but the photo will dictate the design, so I don’t think it’ll be too hard.

OK, I’m going back to bed. G’night.

Stuck on a Really Bad Date?

Cingular Wireless to the rescue.

Cingular Wireless has taken its Voice Connect service where no other wireless carrier has dared to tread with “Escape-a-Date,” one of several new options that are part of the company’s Voice Connect line of information services.

“Escape-A-Date” is the perfect service to use when you are afraid that your blind date may not be just right for you. This new service allows you to schedule a “rescue” phone call at a pre-set time. That way, you’ll be called at the time you specify. The service tells you exactly what to say to set the tone for a speedy escape. There are eight randomly generated humorous scripts.

Sadly, I can see this being really popular.

Moron Crook For The Day

If you’re going to try to deal some drugs, don’t be stupid enough to sell to police officers — especially ones on duty, in uniform, in their squad car.

Remember that Goldfish You Flushed?

How To Spot The Rich Guy

A hilarious image from Rob:

Stupid Cold

Tired. Head plugged with snot. Blog fill with content later. Drugs more need. Grunt.

Russian Logo Site

One for the bookmarks. If you’re ever looking to steal/plagiarize/edit/copy/whatever a corporate logo, keep this site in your bookmarks. It’s based out of Russia, which is why it’s still alive and not getting shutdown by overzealous copyright lawyers here in the U.S.

And You Thought Your Day Sucked?

A Bend man has his car stolen, and then the crook abandons the car on some railroad tracks. I’m sure you know the rest of the story. Too bad there aren’t pictures of the wreckage…Barney? Barney got some pictures posted with the story. That truck is seriously messed up.

Oregon Lawyer Gets Reprimand For classmates.com Post

If you ever want to take yourself out of the running for an elected office and throw your career down the toilet, just post a false posting on classmates.com:

A district attorney candidate claims to have been just joking when he impersonated a high school teacher on the Classmates.com Web site and “confessed” to having sex with his female students.

In February 2001, Jim Carpenter created a Classmates.com account in the name of a man with whom he went to high school years earlier and posted this message: “Hey all! How is it going. I am married to an incredibly beautiful woman, AND I get to hang out with high school chicks all day (and some evenings too). I have even been lucky with a few. It just doesn’t get better than this.”

Needless to say, the Oregon Supreme Court wasn’t too pleased with the John Day lawyer, and slapped him with a public reprimand, and basically forced him to drop out of his DA race (which I read in yesterday’s Oregonian, and I’m not about to try to find the story on their site).

Thanks Barney for the link.

And You Thought C-SPAN Was Boring

Try watching the Pentagon Channel. It will be a little less boring, but looking at the description for the thing, I have a feeling it’s going to be a propaganda machine for the military.