Posts Tagged ‘Vulgar Commerce’
The following is a sponsored post. I’m getting paid for it. If you all just sent me money I wouldn’t have to do this but you don’t so here we are. At least I find cool places to advertise and make the commercials fun.
Comcast Specials! That as the only thing Acadia could see on the bright yellow flyer jammed into his door. He plucked it out and slipped it into his pocket. He thought the building didn’t allow solicitors. He’d have to talk to Lenny down in the lobby at some point.
That could wait, though. He was beat. The flight from Pakistan to New York was long and brutal but somehow the commercial flight on the little puddle jumper from NYC back to Portland, Maine was worse. Acadia “Treacherous” Einstein was glad to be home, yellow Comcast flyers notwithstanding.
The following is a sponsored post. I’m getting paid for it. If you all just sent me money I wouldn’t have to do this but you don’t so here we are. At least I find cool places to advertise and make the commercials fun.
“It’s nice to meet you.” Acadia leaned over the corner of his desk and shook the man’s hand. “So Doris tells me that you’re missing a ring?”
The short, neatly dressed man looked up sadly. “Not just any ring. And not just one ring. I’ve lost three custom engagement rings. And if I don’t get them back soon, I am going to be in a lot of trouble.” The man looked at his watch. “I have three hours.”
I thought the weird semi-week between Xmas and New Years would be a good time to let you know a few things. So…here we go.
New Design
The Celeb Pic Section has been completely revised. Go check it out. And feel free to post criticism in here. I am already probably going to swap the beige for gray, so don’t suggest that because it would just be copying.
And the main page here will be updated to match the final version of the pic area so wowsers!
New Writers
We have WoodRabbit (add her on G+) and Cramsey (I’m screwing her out of a link!) and maybe one other guy. And since there are new shows coming on soon I’m shooting for some recaps.
Someone Won the Router!
Congratulations to RCV who won the router. Unless they don’t email me back and then I will have to pick someone else.
Video Winners!
The winners of the Make a Video contest are:
- Robert Bodden (he wins the camera!) You need to email me your deets so I can tell the people to send it to you.
- Julie Bee! Your video made me lol and you get a subscription to Wevideo!
- Christy Ramsey! Yours made me lol as well and you also get a subscription!
Comment Voting
We have a new thing that lets you vote up or down on people’s comments. That means that we can probably bring back Comment of the Week. So be funny and there might be something in it for you!
So I don’t have a ton of technology. I have a Playstation 3. I won an iPod at my office Xmas party in 2008 and still have it. My previous cell phone was made of wood. but when the Palm Pre came out I was all: I want that thing! So I got it and it was and is awesome. Sprint doesn’t carry it anymore and it will never get a software upgrade. I was resolved to be stuck with it until they made a new one. webOS (the thing that it runs on) is the greatest thing ever. Even the staunchest Apple people said it was a better operating system. “Has no apps” they said.
Screw your apps. There are like, a MILLION apps on the Apple thing. Seriously? Could you EVER even look at them all? Do you need an app that tells you how much an onion weighs or if your aunt has scoliosis? BAH! Stupid Apple.
Anyway, Then HP bought Palm and I was all: now there will be some cool stuff! New phones and tablets and blah blah. And this past February they announced two new phones and a tablet. YAY! I said.
Then they launched the Touchpad July 1st. It got mixed reviews. Most people said there were not enough apps and it would have been good competition for the original iPad. So I waited.
Then they dropped the price by $100 a month in and I waited. In hindsight, that wasn’t a good sign. But look at all the ones that are available on eBay!
Today they announced:
In addition, HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward.
So now what? Like, when my phone dies that will be it. No replacement. No “around the corner”. I got nothing. I don’t want an iPhone. Android is crappy. And I don’t want another wooden phone. And I want the GD Touchpad. Seriously, why would they make a video like the one below and then cancel the whole thing 6 weeks later? SIX WEEKS? Bus station runaways last longer than 6 weeks. What did I do wrong? Seriously. Did I screw over someone in college who ended up being a witch? Do I live on an Indian burial ground? Don’t look at me.
I was sitting in my big overstuffed chair in my study, smoking a pipe and reading a giant newspaper and it occurred to me that my amazing literary achievement, Whalewolf, was not available on any kind of electromagnetomaton for voices. Harumph! I exclaimed. I must certainly find my way to the local recording shop and try make my tome available to the blind and the handless. Can’t turn a page? Well, no worries, m8! You can simply press play with your nose.
As I sauntered past the apothecary (my opium supplies being quite high at the moment I had no need to stop) I had a bit of a skip in my step. How grand it will be to allow the general populous to hear my dulcet tones carrying along the wires of the world. I noticed the newsstand was not carrying the latest edition of my favored periodicals. Blast! But my disappointment would have to wait. I was going to record.
Some time later, I exited the shop with the electrofile you see below. Unfortunately, there was only enough wax cylinder to complete the beginning of my epic drama. That means that you will have to use your “computer mouse” to purchase the remainder and read it yourself. The man in the shop assured me that despite its incompleteness it was completely appropriate for me to call it am “Audio Book”. It’s not false advertising. It’s “bait and switch”.
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