Well, would you look at that. Last week my Google Pontiac post was mentioned in a “ClickZ Network” post, and my traffic nearly tripled versus a typical Thursday. Of course, since I was out of town at the time (with a barely-charged laptop and no adapter, even) I didn’t even notice until a week later.
My bad!
…that’s how many of the films listed in 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men I’ve actually seen. But before you decide I’m a poor excuse for both a ‘mo and a movie buff, I’d like to point out that I’ve deliberately avoided some of the author’s choices.
For example, who would have guessed that Jackass: The Movie would have ever appeared in any book with “Must-See” in its name?
I just got home, dumped my bags, then opened iTunes to play a few tracks while I sorted through some stuff on the computer. There, I saw this:
Excuse me, but what the hell is a “vingle”? Has this word been around and I just haven’t noticed? If so, I want to return to my blissful state of ignorance… because, frankly, like this dude’s overly-Photoshopped upper face, or the “word” Vlogging, something just seems off.
We’re in that narrow stretch of time when it’s 25th Feb both here in Chi and down there in Sydney, so I want to take this opportunity to wish the lovely and talented Catherine Bender a most happy 23rd.
May the hangover gods be kind to you tomorrow.
This is what I get for using the downstairs (Windows) computer:
…note they chose to use the demur “this update required an automatic restart” rather than the more accurate “we didn’t like that, though you chose to manually run an update, you didn’t click the ‘Restart Now’ button fast enough, so — despite the fact you had your customary 46 browser tabs open — when you left to watch The Big Lebowski we took the opportunity to just reboot the computer without your approval. So fuck you, fuck your open documents, fuck your browser windows. We’ve got holes to plug!”
As I’ve said before, I don’t catch too many TV commercials. So forgive me if I’m a little behind the curve on this one.
Tonight I saw a
Immediately following that commercial was a
I don’t know if it’s pride or desperation that has GM highlighting ostensibly neutral third parties (hey, beats “wee” trucks that drive underwater) but I welcome it. As usual, though, they could use a little help on the execution.
Because while the Blue Book site might be self-explanatory, I’m really mystified as to what we’re supposed to get out of a Google search for “pontiac”. When I did it, I got the following results:
That, plus there was also a sponsored link for “Pontiac vs. Mazda: MX5NoComparison.com.” (Maybe that’s Ford’s payback for the Kermit thing.)
So what does GM expect me to discover from these results? That at least the old cars have a big following? That ABC doesn’t know what they’re talking about? Or maybe just that I should have clicked through to the second page of results…
P.S. Stay tuned for Pontiac’s next ad: “Don’t take our word for it. Google Fight and see for yourself…
So why am I not in Australia again?
Maybe I’m just an insufferable pedant, but I found this very odd:
Why on earth is “pop” capitalized in this Weather.com graphic? That seems like entirely misplaced emphasis, especially as opposed to, say:
Of course, all of these pale to the more honest approach, which of course would be the headline: “Yet One MORE Thing to Obsess About Before the Big Day”…
Oh for shit’s sake:
Iranians turn on Danish pastries in cartoon row
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Not content with pelting European embassies with petrol bombs to protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, Iranians have decided to rename the “Danish pastries” relished by this nation of cake lovers.
From now on, the sweet, flaky pastries which dominate the shelves in Iran’s cake shops will be known as “Roses of the Prophet Mohammad,” the official IRNA news agency reported as pressure on Denmark over the cartoons took on a new dimension. […]
Also: Iran is a “nation of cake lovers”? Big surprise. I expect you’d be hard pressed to find a country that wasn’t…
I awoke this morning at my customary hour — at least, I think I did, given that the clock was blinking. Seems we had a power outage this morning. These are not as rare as I’d like, so some time ago I purchased a UPS unit and connected my Mac and Ubuntu machines. Since I tend to have roughly eight billion Firefox tabs open at any given time (have you ever opened so many that they no longer show up? I have), this was a sound decision, but I’m particularly pleased with it today.
You see, I’d left the Linux machine chugging away on a two-pass video transcoding job, reducing a big MPEG-2 video file to a smaller Xvid version. That’s something that takes hours and hours, and you can’t just pick up where you left off after a power loss. So: yay for emergency batteries!
Now I should perhaps investigate this thing known as “backups”…
…you’re driving in the city, and you glance over at the GPS:
Hey there! I’m still alive, just not getting Web access as regularly here as at home.
Anyway, one thing I forgot to mention in the “Unexpected Pleasures” post is a trailer they showed for Apocalypto. I got a good laugh at the latest proof that the post-Passion
Good luck with that, Mel!
Free wireless at
I just hope they don’t go talking to the jerks at
Well, that was a string of events that pleased me:
Who knew you could do anything at Universal for eight bucks? The money saved should come in handy tomorrow as I skulk around
