Archive for June, 2004

Followup on e(vil)Bay

Saturday, June 26th, 2004

Follow-up to my eBay story trying to bid on a Gmail invite.

eBay = EVIL-Bay. I’ve heard it said elsewhere, but now I’m saying it too. Some jerk misrepresents an auction for a Gmail invite and gives me an invite for an already free service elsewhere. I only lost a $1 but it was the principle of the thing. I left negative feedback for the guy and in RETALIATION he left negative feedback for me. Of course, eBay does NOTHING about it. What’s the point of leaving feedback for someone – if you’re just going to get an unfair retaliation back?!? Might as well just have a stat of completed transactions.

On the plus side, got an invite from my bro – AND an offer from another kind individual who read my angst on the blog. So far, I think it has potential. Needs some work. But hey, it’s still a baby.

Six Flags Scary Commercials

Saturday, June 26th, 2004

The new “Six Flags Theme Parks” commercials scare me.

What’s with the mute old scary guy in the burial suit and the techno dance music???

Until they come to their senses and take it down, here’s the link to one of the commercials. The one I saw was much more chilling.

http://www.sixflags.com/index.asp

e(vil)Bay and Gmail

Friday, June 25th, 2004

I’m not getting any work done.

It started innocently enough. I wanted a Gmail account. So sue me – I’ve got geek in my blood and wanted to try it out. *I* didn’t have an invite. Grrr. Tried to buy one on eBay (“e” is for EVIL) and got scammed by a seller who passed off another free service on the web that I’m not going to mention because I don’t want to give them free advertising (to the three of you out there reading this; 2 excluding me). btw, I left a negative feedback for the cretin and *he* left one for me (umm, the VICTIM) in retaliation and eBay will not do a damn thing about it. I only lost a $1 but it’s the principle of the thing.

Anywho… I posted to the blog about the Gmail account because I was feeling self-guilt for never writing in the blog anymore. Life supercedes writing about life.

And – I get a message from Amy offering a Gmail invite. She was killing time cruising around Dave’s site and ended up at my derelict blog. I did already get a Gmail account from my brother who stumbled open an open invite link inside Blogger – which is SO unfair since he posts like once in a billion years and his site isn’t even public right now. Sigh.

Anywho2… I don’t know Amy very well, but Ken holds her in high esteem and he’s picky. Plus, if I ever went into a coma I’d give Ken proxy on my brain. Lucky him. Note, if you know Ken, I must really trust him, becasue he’d probably lose my brain in his apartment.

Anywho3… So, I surfed around Amy’s site, and Dave’s site, and Ken’s site… And would have surfed around my brother Keith’s site – EXCEPT HE DOESN’T HAVE ONE LIVE AT THE MOMENT – and started feeling all nostalgic about blogging and my lack thereof and now I’m writing this (at the office of course).

But I’ve got a Gmail account to e-mail the city about foodstamps when I don’t have any money because…

I’m not getting any work done.

Silly Thing to do with a Book

Friday, June 25th, 2004

Click the Format button on the Supplementary toolbar.

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions

From “Essentials of Programming Languages” – or so it said on Ken’s blog.

Want a Gmail Account

Tuesday, June 8th, 2004

Hrumph. If gmail won’t invite me, I’ll crash the party.

Long live ebay! (I can *not* believe I just said that)

I’m a ho for 1 gb. Sigh. ;-)

Blogger Gave Away Advance Gmail Accounts

Tuesday, June 8th, 2004

Agggh. I stop blogging for a while and I miss the chance to snag a gmail account. Grrr. That’s what a break in loyal patronage does to you!