Monthly Archives: August 2005

Comfort Suites Raising Prices

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Imagine you have just been ordered to evacuate your city because of a deadly hurricane rushing into the area. This probably is a very unsettling situation.

Well, let’s take it a step further.

Now, imagine showing up at a hotel who’s normal rate for a room is $79/night, but due to the hurricane, is now charging $200/night. What do you do? Walk away with no where else to go? Or pay the outrageously inflated prices.

Well this is exactly what happened at a Comfort Suites in Baytown, TX. They raised their rates to “discourage rowdy people from staying there.” I don’t know about you, but I don’t care what their reason was, this is PRICE-GOUGING and that is illegal in my book. I hope the Texas Attorney General comes down hard on that hotel. They should be ashamed for what they are doing in the wake of this disaster.

via Diane’s Stuff

Missed Katrina by a month

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It wasn’t much more than a month ago that I was in New Orleans at the IFT trade show. At that time I was worried a little about hurricane Dennis. Apparently, Katrina is the one I’m glad I missed.

Eighty percent of New Orleans is, currently, under 6-20ft of water according to CNN.com. I couldn’t even imagine what residents are feeling right now in that part of the country.

I’ll take Oregon’s rainy weather over the possibility of something with that much destructive force coming around my home, any day.

Which Seinfeld character are you?

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Babu…
You scored 81% Likeability, 33% lasciviousness, 44% Laziness, and 32% harshness!
You are a hard worker that is well liked by those around you. You are
always trying to succeed, but you have occasional setbacks such as
being shipped out of your country. You may sometimes be a nice person,
but you can get angry if somebody scorns you. You are the loveable
Babu.

Link: The Which SEINFELD Character Are U Test written by zeppoloveskafka on OkCupid Free Online Dating
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Nerd, Geek, or Dork

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Joe Normal
26 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 17% Dork
For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored less than half in all three, earning you the title of: Joe Normal.

This is not to say that you don’t have some Nerd, Geek or Dork inside of you–we all do, and you can see the percentages you have right above. This is just to say that none of those qualities stand out so much as to define you. Sure, you enjoy an episode of Star Trek now and again, and yeah, you kinda enjoyed a few classes back in the day. And, once in a while, you stumble while walking down the street even though there was nothing there to cause you to trip. But, for the most part, you look and act fairly typically, and aren’t much of an outcast.

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid
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Introducing Google Talk

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Google Talk

They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world.

So officially, Google, everyone’s favorite search engine and email client, is throwing its hat into the ring with other IM giants, MSN, AOL, and YAHOO. This puts Google one step closer to taking over the internet. Ok.. maybe not that dramatic, but they are definitely much futher than they were serveral years ago when all they were was a cool, search engine.

A World of Warcraft World

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There are more people playing World of Warcraft in the U.S. today (two million) than had indoor plumbing 100 years ago. There are more people with blogs today (31 million) than had internet connections ten years ago.

Thomas Edison said it best: “Change happens with ball-flattening speed.”

via Pointless Waste of Time

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No More Cow Bell

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Well it looks like the “Walken in 2008″ campaign may be a hoax. According to Urban Legends and Folklore, “Web chatter (when has it ever been wrong?) attributes the hoax to members of the aptly named General Mayhem message boards”.

I kindof figured this may not be true, but it was fun to think of the speeches that we would have heard.

Walken 2008

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Christopher Walken is throwing his hat into the 2008 Presidential race. He couldn’t do any worse than Bush could he? So why not.

This will be an interesting one to watch. Unless, of course, this whole thing turns out to be a hoax.

You know what this needs……. MORE COW BELL!

Back to civilization

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I’m back.. didja miss me? Didn’t know I was gone? Well I was. I went camping on Thursday and returned home yesterday (Sunday). So I haven’t posted for a few days. I’m still catching up on reading all of the blogs I watch so don’t expect anything epic out of me today… not that anything “epic” ever happens here anyway. Although my last post seemed to spark a small, yet heated discussion between husband and wife. Ok.. it wasn’t heated, but it was funny never-the-less.

Camping was good… didn’t do much. But what are you supposed to do when you camp, relax, right? I went fishing four times and managed to catch zero fish. But I can chalk that one up to the time in the season (basically planting was over August 1st according to some sources). Of course some would argue that I caught a goose-egg because of my lack of fishing experience. They may be right, but I’m still going to stick to my excuse.. err, I mean, reason.

Anywho… I could ramble on for a while and that may actually be what some people want, but I’m going to once again disappoint you all and shadddup.

Introducing ME SMASH!

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A friend of mine, and regular commenter here on A Random Act of Blogging, decided to finally bite the bullet and thrust his ideas onto the rest of Internet society. ME SMASH! is the result of his ramblings. Take a look and help him increase his traffic. Let him know what you like and don’t like (if you don’t like, I didn’t send you there). Here is a little clip of what you may find:

In the beginning…there was the internet and it was good. Then we hot aired humans decided to fill it up with all sorts of nonsensical drib drab. Since I’m one of the most winded individuals I know I figure it’s time I showed the internet world just how bad my chronic case of diarrhea of the lips really is. Me SMASH! is my means of torturing my friends and family. It’s also an evil experiment designed to prove humans are in fact not logical.