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A Goo Place to Shop

Kelson — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:27:10 +0000

In case you need more goo for your home…

(I wonder if they have another store for Office Goo.)

Car Trek

Kelson — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:35:14 +0000

License plate spotted today:

★TREK11

It’s beginning to look a lot like…medieval weaponry?

Kelson — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:03:21 +0000

I’ve seen dangerous-looking Christmas decorations at the mall before, but at least those looked like…well, Christmas decorations. This spiked ball looks like something you’d find at the end of a mace, or maybe on the end of a chain for some knight to swing around.

Maybe the order called for a “morning star” and someone got confused?

Out of Orders

Kelson — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:08:00 +0000

Someone went through and scraped off all the Bs from the windows at the local ex-Borders.

Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart (Photo)

Kelson — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:04:55 +0000

Insert obligatory Army of Darkness reference here. I wonder if their “always fresh” guarantee applies to boom sticks… (Found in Torrance, California.)

On a vaguely related note, Incredible Cafe is no more. It’s now Four Brothers Burger Grill. I wonder where they came up with that naming scheme.

It’s Super!

Kelson — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:00:54 +0000

Found this photo I took back when Super 8 was in theaters. It’s funny how, when you get used to emoticons, they just kind of insist on being read.

This one’s right up there with Windows XP.

Recent Links: Netflix/Qwikster Edition

Kelson — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:28:39 +0000

By now, you’ve heard that Netflix is splitting their business in two: one for streaming movies over the internet, which will keep the name, and one for renting DVDs by mail, which will be called Qwikster. Here are links to several funny (and a couple of serious) takes on the situation.

Quickster? That sounds oddly familiar…
Webcomic The Oatmeal explains it in terms of the food service industry.
Woot’s CEO parodies the “apology” letter by announcing Crapster.
Interesting theory at ZDNet: Splitting off the DVD business sets up Netflix to be bought by Amazon without subjecting Amazon to sales tax requirements in all the new states where they (used to) have shipping centers.
Netflix and studios compared to grocery stores and dairy farms (Me at Google+)
I was tempted to leave this funny Netflix comment up, but it was also spam. Good thing I’ve got @lol_spam for that: Netflix Drunk-Dialing

It’s not too late!

Kelson — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:21:15 +0000

Favorite techie license plate spotted lately:

GREP IT

It had better be!

Kelson — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:00:15 +0000

Just a few miles away from Incredible Cafe.

I wonder if they have a rivalry of sorts?

And I can’t help but imagine a third competing restaurant called Incredibly Fantastic Cafe…and another called Fantastically Incredible Cafe…

For the record: I ate there and had a grilled ham & cheese sandwich with seasoned fries, and it was good enough but nothing special. The place gave me the impression that someone had bought a Carl’s Jr. and turned it into something more like a Denny’s. Fantastic Cafe (not Incredible Cafe) appears to be a local chain in the South Bay area.

Noisy are the Ori

Kelson — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:07:10 +0000

I wonder if we should call Stargate SG1 about this?

(Trying to dry out the carpet after the plumbing leak soaked it.)