I’ve been going for walks at lunch lately, and the other day I was walking past the parking lot of a building a few blocks away. Parked there was a Honda Element with a vanity license plate which read, NOTATOY. Now I’m thinking that if you feel like you have to put a [...]
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
For the last about two months or so, I’ve been listening to my MP3 player, in alphabetical order by song title. With over three thousand songs, the effect is similar to random, but you never hear the same song you heard yesterday, which will happen on Shuffle mode. I started at the beginning of the [...]
$3 DVDs at Big Lots
My wife has managed to scour every single Big Lots in San Diego county (except the one in Poway) for $3 DVDs. I finally had to put her on DVD restriction. We must have bought 70 or 80 in the past few weeks (not to mention the 30 or so we picked up in [...]
Defined by Muzak
I don’t know if this is true for everybody, but I’ve always felt that music was important to me. I was born in 1962, and because I had older siblings, I grew up with a lot of 60s music, The Beatles, The Stones, and even Hendrix. When I was about 5, my favorite song was [...]
Stupidest Marketing Ploy Ever, But Wait…
Yesterday, I saw what I thought was the stupidest marketing ploy ever. It was for Dial Magnetic, Dial’s new body wash that uses pheromones:
Here’s the message as I see it. “Use this stuff and your wife/girlfriend won’t be able keep her hands off you.”
Now, here’s my issue. No guy is going to buy a body [...]
Worst Tramp Stamp Ever
They say a picture is worth a thousand words….
Counterfeit Pen
I have an idea. I want to get a one of those pens that they use to check money for counterfeits. I want to carry it with me all the time. That way, when I go somewhere to buy something and hand the cashier a twenty, and they take out the counterfeit pen [...]
Things are Tough
This morning I was coming back from dropping our son, Matthew, off at school. It is recycling day. On the side of the road, I saw someone going through one of the recycle bins. Now in our neighborhood, this is nothing unusual. What was unusual was what this person was wearing–a sweater [...]