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Cory short take #22

22 May 2008 – 9:04 am

Cory has a few cardboard baby books floating around, most of which are about little cartoon animals. This morning something interesting happened: he was looking in one of these books, and realized that they are little cartoons of animals. Of course, he doesn’t know what the animals are, but he recognized that they [...]

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Hello ma’am, land shark

16 May 2008 – 1:52 pm

Thudfactor mentioned in his blog yesterday that I got a call from one of our charming scam charities. I was going to comment on his post (which you should go read here, I’ll wait)... but it got to be so long that it needed a separate entry. Part of my job at a [...]

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On obsidian

16 May 2008 – 10:24 am

I was looking at eBay again this morning, and you know what that means – another rant. I’ll try to keep it short.

Here goes.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS COLORED OBSIDIAN!!

If you are still thinking, “yes, but there’s the rare blue obsidian,” READ THE ABOVE AGAIN.

Obsidian is always, always, always black. Sometimes it’s [...]

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The shouting down becomes deafening

8 May 2008 – 12:46 pm

Wow. In case you think we’re the only ones sick of Hillary, check out some of today’s international headlines:

Hillary! It’s not about you, so hang up your hat (The Age, Australia)

Senator ignores circling vultures (Sydney Morning Herald, Australia)

Obama, obviously (Edmonton Sun, Canada)

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Citicards’ “All-Electronic Program”

5 May 2008 – 3:59 pm

I got tired of having to shred half my mail over the years, so as merchants began to offer options to receive statements electronically instead, I’ve generally jumped at the chance.

One merchant that I opted for all e-mail with was for my Citibank credit card. All went fine for a while, but then, insidiously, [...]

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