People Is Dumb

We just had one of our renters call the office. The extent of the conversation went like this:

Guest: I think there’s a problem with the phone here, I think it’s disconnected.

Us: Are you calling us from the phone?

Guest: Yes.

Us: Then how can it be disconnected?

Guest Pauses: Well, what’s the number for this unit?

Us: We have it as xxx-xxxx

Guest: That’s what is says on the phone here.

Us, thinking to ourselves: Imagine that.

Guest: I tried calling it with my cell phone, and it didn’t ring. Can you try calling the number from your office?

Us: Sure!

Everybody hangs up. We call back, he answers.

Imagine that. It works.

People is dumb.

Attention Underage Drinkers

If you want to buy booze, Bend is a good place to do it, with over 60% of the local businesses failing in the latest OLCC sting. Full Story.

That’s Good To Know

Like That Will Work

The UN is going to try to take on spam. Thanks Barney for the link.

Bootleg RSS Feeds

I’m thinking of paying the $10 (or whatever it costs) to get the Bulletin an RSS feed, since they probably won’t ever do one themselves. Bend.com has one, but there are some stories that Barney just can’t get — he is just a one-man show, after all (but when he gets a story, he does it far better than they do up on Chandler Drive).

Bill Gates’ Blog

I know it’s fake, but it’s still really funny. Quoting the only entry on the site:

In the past days, we had overwhelming success with our Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 marketing strategy by compromising old IIS Systems to infiltrate even fully patched Clients running Internet Explorer.

Portable Firefox

I now know what I’m going to do with this USB key that I have. Thanks to linklog and Jon for this.

What else do you folks do with your keys?

Golfing a Par 11,880 Hole

One man golfing across 2.3 million yards, 1300 miles. Full Story. Link via Waxy.

Finally Got Around To It

I’ve joined the 21st Century and have finally gotten around to installing MT-Blacklist. I had my breaking point last night when I had to remove about 90 comments. So it’s installed now. I’m still considering a move to WordPress or MT 3.0, but I’m certainly not doing 3.0 until MT-Blacklist works with it.

If anybody cares, my blacklist is here.

Have You Walked With Your Daughter Today?