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Rogers – So Helpful
This morning, Rogers never showed for an appointment to fix our cable. Full details over on SharkBoy.ca.
While we were waiting, SharkBoy calls me over to see that his website wasn’t coming up. After a few manual tries, it worked. But not after seeing a couple Rogers/Yahoo search page result (none of which had his site listed…)
Today, Torontoist reports that this is a new feature! So Helpful! You don’t need to be told you’ve typed a URL in wrong from the server you were trying to reach, no. You need to see shitty ads and crap search results!
Thankfully Rogers subscribers can turn it off after jumping through a hoop or two:
One: type in this.sux.extremely into your browser. Just like that. Ta da! Rogers search page:
Two: Scroll down. You’ll see a little “What. The. Fuck. Is this?!” text link at the bottom. Click it:
Three: The next page, you’ll find another text link to turn it off:
The next error you get will be directed to a Rogers page, but weirdly (ironcially?) it displays an IE style error page with broken images. Funny to see on a Firefox browser. Ha. ha. ha.
Thanks Rogers! Eat diseased razor blades and gimme back my web, YOU STUPID DICKS
Rogers Ad Remix
Phronk hates Rogers as much as I do. He getting tired of their flyers coming through his door trying to sell him stuff he doesn’t want or already has. Go take a look at his post. He makes a great point about how crap we don’t need is displayed like something religious.
Here’s the ad he got:
I loved his remix of it. So I did one too:
On My Radar
Here are some things I’m looking at, wondering about, going to do or ignoring:
I go for a refitting (or second try?) of contacts tomorrow morning. My right eye seems to go in and out of focus at the blink of an eye. Weee! That will certainly make driving random!
Tomorrow night, SharkBoy and I will line up (early) to say “Hello!” to David Sedaris. SharkBoy just finished his last book and called it his best. I just want him to say my name.
I got my first Mini Book Expo in the mail yesterday: Devil May Care. It’s yet another fanfic (debatable classification, since it’s ok’d by the publisher?) of someone writing in Ian Flemming’s style. I have to say I’m enjoying it a lot. Review to come soon.
Through SharkBoy’s constant refreshing on CBC.ca, he got us tickets to the second last elimination show of How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? I’m going to make a special sign for Gavin! Go Jana! WOoooOOO!111!!!
Rogers stores aren’t having PS3-like hysterical line ups like New Zealand, or the US. If Apple is really “punishing” Rogers for their prices, then they forgot to take into account that there are as many Rogers stores and kiosks as there are Starbucks. So 10 per shop is like 1000000000 available for sale. Just walk to the next block if your local is sold out. Or better yet, send a message to Rogers and dont buy one!
I would like to see Hellboy II this weekend. ‘Nuff said about that.
Da is fine. He’s taken to ordering food from a woman who cooks for the gods. I swear her BBQ beef could melt titanium. No, I won’t tell you any more details other than she lives in the East End. He has the cutest little belly on him, now that he can eat untethered. Big Puffy Chest Alert: He’s been named the MCCT’s Volunteer of the Year! Time to break out the suit for July 20th!
And finally, a crawling Japanese Business Man Robot, just for shits and giggles:
Men That Suck
Before I start posting pictures of Pride in Toronto coupled with the usual bitter, snarky comments, I want to share with you a new meme:
Romach, my new found Irish sexpot blogger has introduced me to the world of Men That Suck:
Romach’s picture here. (not entirely safe for work)
Mine (note the new Wall•E shirt, Thank you SharkBoy!):
Freddie Mercury:
MiniBook Expo On Again!
Lex, over on Unsweetened.ca has fired up her magical blog MiniBook Expo! Go claim your absolutely free books. The catch? You gotta blog about the book you choose. Choose wisely!
Claim It.
* watch for a book you want
* click through to claim it
* make sure it’s not already claimed by someone else
* leave a comment to claim it (max 2)
*
Get it.
* we’ll confirm you claimed it in the comments.
* then email you for your address
* send me your address
* Canada Post will bring you your book.
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Read it.
* can you really say anything if you haven’t read it?
*
Blog it.
* Post something about the book within a month of getting it
* include a link to the publisher and the author if possible
* if you don’t have a blog, send me your review & I’ll post it here for you
My past books were:
The Grays – Whitley Strieber:
…there are moments of incoherence where you shake the book to see if pages have fallen out from it.
And
Relentless – Robin Parrish:
Relentless is written in a more looser, somewhat melodramatic style, all the while watching it’s language: the strongest curse word in all of it’s pages is “damn”
Sean Sees The Light
Word Trends I Despise
Dad Safari: This has been going on a while over on Flickr. Its the clandestine act of taking picture of “hot guys” and posting them to the interweb. I’m sure the rush is fun but the act itself, to me, seems like an utter violation of that person’s privacy. While whole communities try to stave the onslaught of CCTV cameras in England, US and here in Canada, we now have to worry about some dork with a cell phone camera posting your picture online, displaying your face like some neanderthal hunter displaying heads on his den wall. Okay, he’s cute, I get it. Put your dick back in your pants and wait ten seconds, there’s going to be another “hot guy” along in a moment.
Yummy Mummy: No offense should be taken by any woman who is a mother, but do we have to categorize them with a word that implies edibility? To make motherhood cute and juvenile within the connotation of sexuality just smacks of cannibal-paedophilism. I know there are sexy moms out there, that’s why we have “MILF”.
Hypermililng: For American brethren who might not have heard this new word, it means to drive economically to save gas, to save money at the pumps. Created by a Torontonian, it implies that when you drive accordingly, you will either stretch out your gas millage or the two Imperial Cruisers might just catch you. The concept is easy: drive slow, drive constant, drive safe. So… don’t drive like a douchenozzle (like you should be doing ANYWAY) and you might save money? (swats head)
We Don’t Rate
When Google craps out, it does so in such an interesting way.
Memesorry
I’m hooked. Sorry. This meme from The Electronic Replicant. Damn him:
1. type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. using only the first page of results, pick one image.
3. copy and paste each of the url’s for the images into big huge lab’s mosaic maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.
1. what is your first name?
2. what is your favorite food? right now?
3. what high school did you go to?
4. what is your favorite color?
5. who is your celebrity crush?
6. what is your favorite drink?
7. what is your dream vacation?
8. what is your favorite dessert?
9. what do you want to be when you grow up?
10. what do you love most in life?
11. what is one word that describes you?
12. what is your flickr name?
With that listed, can you guess my answers? I fudged the results on two (Click the picture to embiggen):
