Me linked to Apple?

I was a little shocked today. I was doing an ego surf today, and noticed that my name popped up linked to a ZDNET article by Steve Jobs.

It turned out to be someone's comment, not Steve Jobs, but it was still weird. I wouldn't think that anything I have to say would apply to the "Think Different" crowd. Personally, I think that I think too differently even for them.

Coming Back...

I'll be back in Utah the last weekend of January to help get the truck loaded. I'll be arriving the evening of Janaury 28, and leaving early in the morning on January 31.

The Playlist Meme

Taken from here. The ten songs that pop up on my playlist are:

1. Erasure - She Won't Be Home
2. MXPX - Chick Magnet
3. The Space Brothers - Shine
4. B*Witched - Jesse Hold On
5. Unknown Artist - Manga Maniac
6. Denis Leary - Asshole
7. Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi Soundtrack - Opening Theme ("Takaramono")
8. No Mercy - Where Do You Go?
9. The Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams
10. The Wallflowers - One Headlight

I've got pretty varied taste in music. Once my main computer gets here from Utah, I'll have to redo this meme with my other computer.

1-800-COLLECT

I'm sure by now that everybody out there has seen the 1-800-COLLECT advertisements. You've got Dennis Miller hawking the service now, claiming that all calls up to 20 minutes are 99 cents, and 7 cents a minute after that.

That's what the television ads say. However, they don't mean it.

My phone didn't get hooked up until last night, so I had been calling my wife for a couple of minutes each night using 1-800-COLLECT and charging it to my American Express card. I was expecting some sort of additional charge for that convenience.

However, American Express put a fraud alert on my card, and I'm glad they did, otherwise I wouldn't have found out that a 32-minute call to my wife, which under the TV ad rates would cost $1.83, cost me over $68.00!

So I'm sorry, but I'm going to contest the charges. And Dennis, I'd seriously rethink who you're hawking for.

Circuit City Follow-up

As a follow-up to my previous post on the subject, Circuit City is now promising that they will be delivering this coming Saturday.

Needless to say, I'm less than impressed. There's nothing quite as humiliating as saying, "This is when I'm available," to a customer service representative and being told, "That's not how this works."

I'd have to say that on a graph where the X-axis represents time, and the Y-axis represents satisfaction, the line has dipped below the horizon and is currently in free-fall mode.

If satisfaction was a golf ball, this ball would have hit a turtle and bounced off into the Grand Canyon...and yet to have to play it where it lies.

So as far as I'm concerned, Circuit City can kiss my ass.