Category Archives: Notebook

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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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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Batteries not included. Now with termite-chompin’ action!

2 May 2008 – 5:09 pm

As Thud has alluded in his Twitter stream, I recently ordered an item online – a carved wooden box – which, alas, turned out to have termites.

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And now for something completely different…

29 January 2008 – 5:06 pm

the most poorly-designed website masthead of all time: American Martial Arts Alliance.

If you can tear your eyes away from the train wreck at the top, be sure to take in the “join” link on the left hand side, which starts out as unreadable red and white text over a full-color American flag image… complete with [...]

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Random worry of the day

21 January 2008 – 2:29 pm

As I was cutting up the meat and vegetables to make stir fry today, it occurred to me that it might be cool to make garlic-infused oil to use instead of plain oil.

So I went and looked up how to make garlic-infused oil. It turns out that it’s super easy to make, as you [...]

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