Archive for December, 2003
I hate US Airways
Aargh, no wonder this second rate airline is having problems. The idiots cancelled our flight out of Florence, SC this morning and we had to re-route via Delta. Unfortunately Delta flies out of Atlanta, so I spent seven hours waiting in the Florence airport to catch a flight to Atlanta. And from there spent […]
Chrysler backing out of Lingerie Bowl
Those cowards–after agreeing to sponsor the planned pay-per-view Lingerie Bowl to air during half-time at the Super Bowl, Chrysler has decided to back out because of criticism that the show is “sexist”.
Well duh, I thought that was exactly the target audience the marketers at Chrysler were aiming for. The brand they were going to showcase […]
Monster of an ad campaign
Holy Madison Avenue, Monster.com announced a $125 million ad campaign for 2004. That’s a big ad budget by any measure, but especially these days for an Internet company.
I remember fondly when CNET burned through its own big wad of cash on an ad campaign. For a while we were sponsors on Monday Night […]
The Return of the King tonight
Wow, the last Lord of the Rings movie opens tonight and it’s getting rave reviews. I so cannot wait–I have tickets for a midnight showing tonight.
Unfortunately tonight is also the office Christmas party, meaning my original plan to go home and take a nap before the movie is shot to hell. I’m going to […]
My first snowfall (in a long while)
The big news for most people this weekend was probably the capture of Saddam. But for me it was this weekend’s snow, the first major snowfall of the season, and the first snowfall I’ve seen in a long while.
Living in SF will do that to you–we all complain about how cold it is out […]
Largest prime number ever
Kinda neat–a project harnessing the power of thousands of computers across the Internet to build a virtual super computer has found the largest prime number. It’s a Mersenne prime, 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1. Mersenne means the power– 20,996,011 –is also a prime number.
Not gonna change the world but it’s […]
New SF mayor faces challenges
God bless the Internet–I’m able to follow the mayoral run-off elections back in San Francisco. And Gavin Newsom won that runoff last night. But it wasn’t what I’d call an impressive win–he outspent his opponent about 10-to-1 and yet got a rather slim 52.6% victory.
He’s got a lot of tough challenges ahead. […]
Doing Dish
Well, after my run in with Insight Communications I decided to sign up for Dish Network instead. I won’t be able to get Internet access with it, which was one of the attractions for Insight–getting both TV and Internet in one package. Still, I think it was a good decision.
Dish is running this […]
Insight Communications sucks
The cable monopoly here in Louisville, Insight Communications, sucks. They were supposed to install my cable on Saturday, but missed the appointment window forcing me to re-schedule to next Saturday.
So I told them, you need to leave the basic cable (from the previous owner) running until I get the new digital cable installed next […]
Lovin’ Lowe’s
So I closed on my first real home Friday. I owned a condo in the Bay Area but that doesn’t count, this here is my first single-family real-live home with a yard. But what I’ve come to realize is that it’s basically a scam to make me spend as much money as possible […]