Author: cosmo

As I am often labeled a die-hard skeptic, I love quotes like this:

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

— Albert Einstein

Steve, known to the world as VirtualSmitty, reports the following:

So, I get an AIM today out of the blue. Here’s the whole conversation:

Edredjem: hey
Edredjem: do you have a home
VirtualSmitty: who is this?
Edredjem: why do you ask?

I only responded the once. I thought that it might be an AIM spammer or something, but where’s the punchline? Where’s the “Cause you can refinance with Funky Joe’s Mortgage for just 3.14159% today!” I am so confused…

An update. A couple of hours later I got one more line from him:

Edredjem: do you crossdress?

I’ve always wanted a penpal!

Today’s winner of the Scariest Spam Subject Line:

“penis yoga”

I was too afraid to open the message and see what was in it…

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

— Larry Hardiman

… So the Saudi government has issued an official condemnation of the purported activities at the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention facility, where it’s said there were U.S. soldiers who desecrated the Koran in an effort to, presumably, torture Muslim prisoners:

“The government of Saudi Arabia is closely following, with indignation, media reports of desecration of the holy Koran at Guantanamo.”

I can only imagine the scene immediately after this stern statement was made.

“Okay, guys, let’s go oppress our women again.”

After all, Saudi Arabia is one of the most oppressive governments in the world– always vying for that top spot with the likes of China and North Korea– so for them to condemn desecration of a book while at the same time completely disregarding the rights of their own women is downright ironic. While I don’t think that excuses the alleged acts, it’s certainly a case of Mr. Pot and Mr. Kettle.

Because one of the new expansions of my business involves search-engine optimization for clients’ web sites, I figured I’d do a fun little test to see if I can get hits on this site. I need to pick a word that’s pretty unique, but still something people might search against. So, here’s the word:

chuckletrousers

Here’s what Google has to say about it. Now the question is how long (if ever) this page will appear in those search rankings. And, perhaps more importantly, how many people will visit this page in their quest to find out more about the legendary Mr. Chuckletrousers. Heaven knows there are already some very interesting searches that bring people to this site…

I was using Google Maps to find an Allstate insurance agent, and came up with this one in my search. Although I’m sure the Allstate guys are happy they’re “on the map”, so to speak, I suspect they’re less than thrilled with Google’s choice of web site to link to them…

I suppose it’s a sign of the digital times that we use electronic Post-It notes on our computer screens…

In a complete non-surprise move, the Senate approved the Real ID Act unanimously. Hoo boy.

In what can only be described as a funny coincidence, today I’m wearing my Izze shirt and Rick from SketchUp gave me a nice official SketchUp fleece vest. Now I’m wearing them both, and as Craig said, I’m “fully sponsored”. It makes me feel like I should be on a bike racing team or something…