It’s been a while since I’ve posted something to the Wall of Shame. Personally, there hasn’t been much to get my attention lately. I know far too well not to respond to e-mails from Nigerian heiresses who desperately need to place their money in a US bank account or submit any more poems to Poetry.Com and accept an offer for them to print my book. Speaking of banks, perhaps some in Africa and Europe with their e-mail scams have helped contribute to the collapse of the US financial system. It would be a brilliant form of terrorism, attack Americans where it hurts without even entering a single airport. But, that’s just a bad joke. What happens to people who fall for these scams, however, isn’t funny.
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Feb 09
Masters Degree…
Warning: Do not watch the video if you’re offended by talk about body parts, etc.
Gotta love public access TV and the people who broadcast on them. YouTube’s more or less supplanted that, but somewhere, there’s someone out there who’s captured some of the most whacked out moments on tape and then share it with the rest of us. Tamika shared this vid on Facebook, but it’s been around for a while.
Alexyss K. Tylor pontificates on the penis, which seems to start out ok, but quickly becomes an incoherent rant where she more or less repeats the same thing (she seems to have an obsession about rectums). Mainstream relationship experts like to trot out their credentials if available, but she has no degree. However, Tylor has “masters degree in being played by men, used by men, told everything I want to hear…”
Needless to say, not safe for work at all. This clip is a trainwreck for sure, one where you can’t stop laughing either. Funny thing is that Tylor’s guest/cohost/? (who doesn’t get in a word edge-wise) says she’s got to “stay prayed up… keep standing in the Lord.”
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Feb 09
La Même Chose: 25 Things
The universe officially ended yesterday when Brian succumbed to the Facebook meme. His doing the 25 things created a rip in the space-time continuum so great, all our realities will soon collapse… Actually, I love how he subverted the trend by doing the post on his blog rather than post it as a note on Facebook.
I’ve been trying to ignore the meme after getting tagged several times. After being tagged for the seventh time, I figure why not. I have a blog, dammit, and I’m no Facebook Notes poster. Also, ShindoTV’s all mine, but I won’t belabor this point any further.
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Jan 09
San Diego TWineUp, 23 January 2009
Taking a picture of someone taking a picture in my direction.
My Friday night was marked by the San Diego TwineUp, a small scale local Twitter meetup with big party energy. Rob, AKA Downtown Rob, of WebWizards was generous with hosting at his downtown home (which has a fabulous south view), providing a lot of the wine, and having Rock Band set up for group fun and alternating with the iPod video playlists for ambient background noise. I’ve been to most of the TWineUps, save one, since it started, and this night’s event had the highest turnout so far. The first one had only four people, including Rob and yours truly, and this one had about 10-15 people in all. I took lots of pictures pictures and sent much of them to my Twitpic account via my iPhone. Here are some of them, along some from another camera I brought to the party and a few taken by Rich of Rich and Creamy.
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Jan 09
THE BEST RESIGNATION LETTER EVER
My friend Avril sent me a copy of a letter a network administrator sent to her idiot boss in response to my open letter to my ex-boss, which I recently mentioned in So Hard. I Googled it and found an entry in Snopes.Com that debunks its veracity. Even so, the letter is hilarious and it is the type of letter many of us have wanted to send to a boss one time or another. Enjoy.
THE BEST RESIGNATION LETTER EVER
Actual letter of resignation from an employee at Zantex Computers, USA, to her boss, who apparently resigned very soon afterwards!
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Jan 09
Rest In Peace…
In my late night Net-browsing, I came across this obituary on Queerty, only it was about a blog, not a person. The Boi from Troy abruptly wished his readers farewell.
A year and some time ago, Scott-O-Rama took a sabbatical from blogging and planned a comeback. He even set up a spiffy blog template a few months ago to return in style. Ironically, his most significant post after makeover was one to say goodbye. He even took it a step further and got rid of much of his social networking accounts such as Twitter and Flickr.
Both blogs had large readerships and were heavily blogrolled. Both felt blogging became more of a chore than something they wanted to do after a while, so they called it quits at some point. They were big trees in their niche of the blogosphere forest and we heard them fall.
