Monthly Archives: April 2011

The Curious Habits of Spammers

Posted on 2011-04-29 by dgilbert

I’m still rather amused with my spam­mers.  We are amused.  Heh.  Roy­al Wed­ding ref­er­ence.  Any­ways… accord­ing to my com­ments archive, 930 spam com­ments have been “post­ed.”  None of them have seen the light of day, but 930 attempts have occurred.

(ads­by­google … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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The Banana Package Packaging

Posted on 2011-04-29 by dgilbert

The Del Monte Sin­gle Serve Banana was recent­ly fea­tured on The Dai­ly Show in their “Pantry of Shame” depart­ment.  I sim­ply want to add what­ev­er weight my blog has behind sham­ing them for this.  On the Dai­ly show, things car­ried … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Bean Bag Chair (for your cell phone)

Posted on 2011-04-28 by dgilbert

Con­tin­u­ing on with cool prod­ucts, we turn our atten­tion to Think Geek today.  We’re going to look (rather quick­ly) at the Bean Bag Chair … which is not for you (the human) but for your cell phone.
Real­ly, I’m a bit … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Espisode Three: Co-Op Hinted by Portal

Posted on 2011-04-28 by dgilbert

Rock, Paper, Shot­gun (on of my favorite Games sites) has an excel­lent inter­view with Valve folks regard­ing Por­tal 2.  Wow.  3 links in one sen­tence.  It’s a good read.
Any­ways, anoth­er RPS arti­cle quotes Valve as say­ing that Por­tal 2 may … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Canadian Tire Makes Good on Repair Problem.

Posted on 2011-04-28 by dgilbert

Cred­it where cred­it is due.  After much cajol­ing, Cana­di­an Tire made good on its repair to my jeep (before it was my jeep).
The issue was a repair that a Cana­di­an Tire in down­town Toron­to had done for the pre­vi­ous own­er … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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I Can Has Jeep.

Posted on 2011-04-27 by dgilbert

I real­ized that I’ve been remiss in post­ing and even the low hang­ing fruit of easy posts about my life in gen­er­al haven’t been done.  I’ve been so depressed about the elec­tion… but that rant is for lat­er.
I Can Has … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Contempt Begins at Home, a Contemplation…

Posted on 2011-04-14 by dgilbert

I’ve been want­i­ng to fol­low up my last post regard­ing the elec­tion for some time.  I’ve been doing some heavy think­ing.  A Con­ser­v­a­tive Major­i­ty would seri­ous­ly injure this coun­try.  Their con­tempt for par­lia­ment, the par­lia­men­tary process and the coun­try in … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Spring Cleaning.

Posted on 2011-04-02 by dgilbert

That last post was a lit­tle heavy.  I still think about it.  Any­ways, this post is just about life and what­ev­er.  We final­ly arranged to get our­selves rid of all the crap in the build­ing — so no more repo­man … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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