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A Sense of Humor

In addition to great customer service, and fantastically fast shipping, Zappos, it seems, has a sense of humor. I’ve been wearing my new Timberland shoes indoors only since they are a little tighter than I’d like, and I want to be able to exchange them for the next size larger if necessary. Consequently I swap [...]

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Rapping Flight Announcements

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Blackberry Touch

This unofficial Blackberry Touch ad is outstanding. Personally, I think the blackberry must be frozen.

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My Dear American Friend

Terrific send up of those 419 scams from Africa.  Originally seen here. MY DEAR AMERICAN FRIEND: I AM NEEDING TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE. I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS [...]

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George Carlin

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of [...]

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Non Sequitor

For many years Non Sequitor has been one of my favorite daily comics.  Today’s edition is particularly good.

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Two Plus Two Equals One

As a student in American classrooms in the 1960s and 1970s I was introduced to the metric system in a failed attempt to join the world standard.  (That the United States is one of but three countries on the planet that doesn’t use the metric system speaks volumes.)  Personally, I think the reason the metric [...]

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Bathroom Etiquette

Recently a friend sent me one of those joke emails containing a list of politically incorrect “laws” that govern a gender. In this case they were “man laws,” and one dealt with the men’s room. To whit: Never talk to a man in a bathroom unless you are on equal footing (i.e., both urinating, both [...]

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PlacesLivedException

Eagle-eyed reader JJ, sent me this today: net.zanshin.PlacesLivedException: placesLivedCount may not be decremented at net.zanshin.blogs.001243.html (I’ve lived in six states:iii) at net.zanshin.blogs.000572.html (I have lived in 7 states: xv) at net.zanshin (index.html:1) at user.jj (see what mark is doing:1) at user.jj (preflight checklist:114) 08 May 2007 12:13:04,553 ERROR JJUsingWebDaemon : [10.170.77.54-63b5c0.1126c1a3314.-7ff2] runtime exception… It seems [...]

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Seasons Greetings!

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, [...]

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