Well, Duh
The license plate of the car in front of me this morning merging onto the highway and then traveling at sub-highway speeds? TARDIE. You may read that how you want, but I intend to read that as “tardy” and it fits!
What’s Wrong With This?
So let me get this straight. Paris Hilton has gained fame and fans (really pathetic) by doing absolutely nothing but being born into the Hilton family.
She’s spending just over a month in jail for violating her probation for DUI and people can’t stop talking about how she is doing in there? Jeez, maybe the time in jail might actually be good for her and the rest of the world!
But what is absolutely confounding to me is that NBC is offering her $1 million USD for a post-jail interview. Yeah, like she really needs that $1 million and what kind of message is this sending to the public? Become famous, break the law, go to jail for it and become even richer when you get out?
Just pathetic!
Update: NBC Denies Rumor
Turns out that NBC is now denying the “rumor” of the $1 million for the Paris Hilton interview.
Now was this always a rumor or did some buffoon actually make the offer and now the network is rescinding the whole thing based on what people must be saying on the ‘Net??
Cheers
In Search of VoIP
I’m about ready to dump my traditional phone service provided by Verizon and switch over to a VoIP provider.
I tried, unsuccessfully, to reduce the amount of money I pay Verizon for my seldom used home phone and found that I’m still paying about $45 each month and that’s just ridiculous. Most VoIP providers have full-featured services starting at $24.95/month.
Just looking that the savings from switching to a VoIP service, I began my search with Vonage and found that there are many more providers. It also looks like Vonage’s service isn’t as highly praised as some others, so I would love to hear from other providers and your first hand experience with them so that I can decide.
Currently, I’m looking very favorably at Allo.com and Voip.com.
All of your thoughts requested…
Cheers
A Grilling Success
Nearly two and a half years after moving into our house, we finally got our deck constructed and the necessary accessories for it. This past Friday night we decided that we’d inaugurate everything by grilling our dinner and enjoying it on the deck.
For first time grillers, we managed to do a pretty good job of making some BBQ chicken and some wings. We also had some potatoes, corn and veggies. All-in-all I’d say our first grilling venture was a success and has whet our appetite (pun intended) for more future grilling.
I entirely expected to have burnt, over-cooked, and charred briquettes of chicken once we finished, but I guess beginners luck was on our side. 
Though, the after-grilling cleanup isn’t as much fun as making and eating the food, we’ll still try to get out there as much as we can.
Check out all the rest of the pictures in the gallery.
Cheers
Hilton is not news
Nothing Paris Hilton does is newsworthy, especially front-page worthy. ‘Nuff said.
The Most Useless Spam. Ever.
You might say that “any spam equals useless” and I would have to agree. But as you can see from this prized piece of spam pictured, it has reached a depth of uselessness that other spam just can’t reach.
The majority of spam is easily recognizable by the usual prepossession to buy pharmacetucal drugs by the names of “Vi.AGra” or “A.van.dia” or whatever happens to be the one most talked about in the news of late.
The other usual give away are the plethora of long links that will most definitely lead you down a path to get your computer totally infected by all sort of malfeasances.
However, this sort of utterly useless spam with no name, no subject and no text in the body is truly a waste unlike any other. This is akin to that phone call from the anonymous or blocked caller during dinner time and the subsequent hang-up when you actually choose to answer the phone.
Why even bother?
Cheers
