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Russ Beattie, one of my former cow-orkers at The ‘Hoo — although in a different location and a different business unit, so I’ve never actually met him — pointed out that Bill & co have trotted out Big.com again. I think it’s cute that somebody from The ‘Hoo would be more up on Idealab’s goings on than most folk around here seem to be. Good times.

I remember back in the day when Bill first got his hands on Big.com. I want to say that there were plans to do a deal with some consumer electronics chain and be their online presence. The joke around the office was that we would get Shaq — who had been in the office recently, and oh my is he a big man in person — to advertiser for the site, possibly selling banner ad space on his liver. Ah, dot-com. I miss you guys.

Just when you thought you couldn’t love the credit card companies quite enough, the magic internet machine provides with dramatic proof that the pre-approved credit card offers we get in the mail are wicked dangerous.

I don’t use credit cards. I haven’t used credit cards for years. I wish Chase and Cap1 and etc would clue in to that and stop putting my credit history at risk by sending me these damn things.

I subscribe to several friends’ Flickr feeds in bloglines, and lately I’ve been getting a random set of photos showing up as “new” for all of them. (The same set in most cases!) Is it Flickr? Perhaps, but I can’t be sure. Is it Bloglines? Possibly, but again not definitely. Is it annoying? The damn it is.

Update: If I look at the raw Flickr feed, the photos are out of the users’ photo sets. So Bloglines, I’m looking at you now…. (Perhaps it’s time to check out Feed Lounge.)

Hey, Stpehanie and I made the news! CBS 2 / KCAL 9: Your Source For Southern California’s Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports: Tour Noir Los Angeles With The 1947 Project

Holy crap the new Apple laptops (The Apple Store (U.S.) - MacBook Pro) look cool. I’m usually not one to drool over technology, but I’ve really become attached to my powerbook, my only complaint being that it’s way slow compared to what I could get with a PC. Seems like apple has solved that particular problem.

If somebody wants to buy me one, please feel free.

Ever have one of those days when there’s a ton of traffic coming in to work and you start to get angry about it, but then you relize what likely caused the traffic and you feel a bit guilty about being angry? Yeah. Ug. Traffic isn’t as bad as getting hit by a train.

AP Wire | 01/06/2006 | Driver dies when commuter train slams into car in Burbank

Center of the Earth
Originally uploaded by Corey Porter.

When you fire up Google Earth, it presents you with a “default” view that you can zoom in on. As it happens, this default point is two blocks from my parents’ home in Lawrence, KS. I’m told that the corner of Crestline Drive and Compton Square (Compton is the name of the owner of the apartment complex located at that intersection) became the center of the default view because the engineer who entered the defaults once lived in these apartments.

I’m glad to see that BB has finally gotten on the Cock Flavoured soup bus. (Boing Boing: Unfortunately suggestive food packaging) Erich gave me a packet of this a few months back. (cock flavoured soup photo here) This truly is the soup of the future.

• Sharp stick in the eye (left)
• Listening to Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” backwards
• Curry paste, rubbed in to genitals
• NyQuil and vodka, up
• Luge
• Verbal abuse from checker at Vons
• Disdain for all mankind
• Cuban cigars
• Bowling (provided you don’t win the beer frame)
• 1980’s video game smash hit “Joust”
• Progressive Rock
• Chestnuts roasting on an open fire (yours — the nuts, not the fire)
• Hittin’ switches and/or gettin’ your swerve on
• Wind sprints
• Kittens (broiled)
• Gunpowder suppositories
• Teleportation
• Curling with the LAUSD advisory board
• Rod Setwart’s “Maggie May”
• Cold pills from Mexico provided by someone called “Mr. Sticky”
• Annual outing with the Polar Bear Club
• Southwest flight 2762

Isn’t it cute how these things always hit just as you start a vacation? I think I’ll stick to rest and OJ, as the above just didn’t do it for me.

Did you ever notice that some people shorten “Death Penalty” to “DP” in written forums? What’s with that? “DP.” “D to the P.” “Donkey Puncharello” if you’re not in to the whole brevity thing.