Things I’ve Learned

One thing I’ve learned in my 39 years: no matter how different the assorted varieties of Hamburger Helper may taste when you first cook them, they all taste exactly the same when re-heated for lunch the next day…

One thing I’ve learned about Wells Fargo since 1992: no transaction is without cost. They even charge you for NOT using your credit card…

One thing I like about the satellite: if you feel like watching Cops, there’s probably one on somewhere…

Spammers

Today’s spam:

From: Sharmayne Wesler (info@rdpgroup.com)
Subject: 20,000 GAY CONSUMERS!
Date: 19 January 2003

20,000 GAY CONSUMERS!

2 GREAT SHOWS?

The 11th Original GLBT Expo
Serving the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual & Transgender Community for over a Decade?
&
The Same Sex Wedding Expo

New name to better reflect the changing community-Formerly The Int?l Gay & Lesbian Business and Entertainment Expo

Over 20,000 yearly attendees

Employment and Travel Pavilion

Food and drink sampling!

Great entertainment!

Last year?s show was a sell out. Register early!

Saturday, March 20,2004 & Sunday, March 21,2004
Jacob Javits Convention Center in NYC

For more info, go to www.rdpgroup.com
or call 800-243-9774

Contact: Sharmayne Wesler

RDP Group 30 Tower Lane Avon, CT 06001
800-243-9774 (toll free) 860-677-6869fax
info@rdpgroup.com www.rdpgroup.com

Today’s thought:

Why do spammers always have such butt-ugly websites?

Eight Years of Webness

Wow. It’s been eight years (yesterday) since this little website was born, albeit at another address. Actually, that’s not the real original address either. I shan’t elaborate, but be advised that it contained a tilde, as URLs in those days were wont to do…

Randomly Tuesday

Mmmm. A tasty reminder of one of those poor victims of the 1970 Cyclamate Scare. It’s strange what we remember from childhood; I couldn’t tell you who I sat next to in first grade, but I very clearly remember that I couldn’t have Funny Face (or pre-sweetened Kool-Aid) for a long time because cyclamates caused cancer…

But I was kind of a precocious kid anyway…

More random thoughts for a Tuesday evening:

My neighborhood needs this about like it needs 500 more faux live-work lofts. But at least we’re getting a REAL supermarket later this summer…
Trying to make hippies think logically is a recipe for frustration. And that’s all I’m gonna say on that subject…
Not to laugh at the misery of mentally-deficient persons or anything, but you gotta love a headline like “Ted Nugent Injured in Chainsaw Accident”…
Speakng of love, there’s this (thanks to Bob in Berkeley)…
10 weeks, 1 day, 22 hours, 35 minutes, 21 seconds…

CBS? Who Cares?

Y’know, aside from the local news on KPIX (which is still my third or fourth choice), my lfe would not be impacted whatsoever by not having a CBS affiliate available on the satellite. Ultimately, I couldn’t care less…

I haven’t been a regular viewer of network primetime in years. I guess it started even before I moved to San Francisco in 1992, but once I got here I was introduced to the miserable cable service which made the VHF stations (all the major network affiliates) virtually unwatchable. After a few years, I’d given up on just about everything but The Simpsons and Homicide: Lfe on the Street. As it happened, the last network dramatic series I watched with any regularity was Voyager…

I haven’t sworn off the networks completely, I guess. I still watch the assorted Fox animation on Sunday nights. Other than that, though, network primetime isn’t even an issue anymore. I don’t even look at the listings, even though I now have a satellite dish and can watch all my local stations crystal clear…

That’s not to say I don’t watch TV anymore. I do. Probably to excess. It’s just more likely to be satellite channels or DVDs now. And apparently, I’m not alone…