Today is National Voodoo Day .
There are things that will always get you into trouble with your girlfriend. Forgetting her birthday, for instance, or checking out another woman. Or maybe taking naked pictures of her mom.
A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits. Tongue twisters.
"Why, this kebab is Fluffy" "How on earth did you know?"
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Old and Busted: That 42" LCD TV with 3000:1 contrast ratio you spent thousands on last year. New Hotness: The 55" Surface-conducting Electron-emitter Display, with 100,000:1 contrast ratio.
It's official: the new ultra-retro Dodge Challenger.
Bush villages in Alaska can now get pizza airdropped to their door for free.
It's official: the new ultra-retro Dodge Challenger.
Bush villages in Alaska can now get pizza airdropped to their door for free.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Monday, January 02, 2006
Computer system mistakenly notifies crime victims that thousands of criminals had been released from prison.
New talking "Potty Time With Elmo" book freaks kids out by asking "Who Wants To Die?" (with video, audio from book).
Paper airplane simulator.
Quite possibly the most amazing miniature engine ever built. That's 18...yes...18 cylinders!
After tonight's bender test your reaction time with this traditional British sheep injection game.
Bartender tricks to curing a hangover.
New talking "Potty Time With Elmo" book freaks kids out by asking "Who Wants To Die?" (with video, audio from book).
Paper airplane simulator.
Quite possibly the most amazing miniature engine ever built. That's 18...yes...18 cylinders!
After tonight's bender test your reaction time with this traditional British sheep injection game.
Bartender tricks to curing a hangover.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Ok, so the Christmas/New Year Holiday is over (it will be when my laundry is done). I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year's Eve! The rest of the pictures are now up and they are all in December's Photos from the Christmas Weekend up to today.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Monday, December 19, 2005
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Been away for awhile. I have been in and out of Ottawa, Toronto, Mississauga and Oshawa training for the company I now work for. Yes, I have jumped out of the Mailing Solutions industry and into the Extended Care industry. I now work for a company called Arjo Canada, here in Ottawa. So it has been a very busy month and will continue to be until the new year.
Christmas is soon here and I have to get out and get shopping!!! Usually I am done by the end of November, but there were too many changes this year. This weekend I will start and finish. And because the holidays are coming, I hope I can get the old camera out again and update some photos.
Hope everyone is well and you all have a wonderful Christmas!
Christmas is soon here and I have to get out and get shopping!!! Usually I am done by the end of November, but there were too many changes this year. This weekend I will start and finish. And because the holidays are coming, I hope I can get the old camera out again and update some photos.
Hope everyone is well and you all have a wonderful Christmas!
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Find out how much caffeine it would take to kill you.
Coolest pictures of coffee you'll see all day.
National Wildlife's photography contest winners.
Coolest pictures of coffee you'll see all day.
National Wildlife's photography contest winners.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Tips for Handling Telemarketers & Junk Mail
1) Three Little Words That Work
The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!
3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express.
Send a pizza coupon to Citibank.
If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!
3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express.
Send a pizza coupon to Citibank.
If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
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