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Gmail has a feature where it displays ads on the left side of the email. These ads are selected based on keywords in the body of your email.
Sometimes this is really helpful. If I am talking with one of my nerdy friends about one of my nerdy hobbies, sometimes they are incredibly relevant ads that catch your attention.
Other times these ads are very humorous. I receive an weekly email from my Pastor. Here are some examples of Google ads I get when I read my Church mail:
slave bracelets Affordable, varied selection. Metal bras and bikinis too.Duck!
The Dick Cheney Survival Bible 250 Ways to Find Cover from the VPTaser Holsters and More
Good Stuff for the Good Guys Military, Tactical and Duty GearWays To Stay Awake
Information on alertness and energy Learn more at the official website.Dog Lodge and Bunkhouse
Dog Boarding, Seattle, Bellevue Boarding small dogs under 35 lbs(this next ad was served on an announcement for the Men's Breakfast)
You Run Girl
A web site devoted to
Average Women Runners
Jess has a habit of replying to 8 or 9 month old emails. Today I got an email from him where he noted that hindsight had shown the prophetic nature of my email. Of course the Google Ads sent me to some prophesy conference website.
I then got the idea might be fun to send an email back and forth in order to gain craziest Google ads.
I am happy to see that I am now the number two listing when a search is made for womendesignerclothes.com The nice thing about the internet is that the consumer has a loud and credible voice when discussing their experience doing business.
As I detailed in my previous post. Chase Hayes, the proprietor, has been absolutely unprofessional in the way he runs his business. He intentionally delivered a product that was the wrong size, then failed to honor his promise to provide a refund.
It has been a couple of months now, and he intentionally avoids answering calls from my Mom or my sister. He answers when we call from phone numbers that he doesn't recognize.
He still has not provided the refund that is owed.
For all of you folks smart enough to Google this outfit before doing business, Do not do business with this guy! Until further notice, he should be regarded as a liar and a crook. Womensdesignerclothes.com should be treated as a fraudulent website.
I promise to update this post if anything changes.
I was pretty excited when I got a trackback in my inbox...
[Fingertoe.com] New TrackBack Ping to Entry 590 (Turning tb-spam off -- Way off)
Perhaps somebody found my tip to be helpful? Nope, it was a trackback spammer... To my defense, my hack only prevents trackbacks to old entries, and that one was not old enough to be disabled yet.
I am getting accustomed to my new computer pretty quickly.
I have been walking around my office showing it off to my coworkers... Most of them wrinkle their noses at it, right about the time that the iSight camera snaps a photo of them. I assembled a nice little collage of startled co-workers using the silly "Comic Life" application. I suspect Andee will find good use for that program when she sees what it can do.
I signed up for Amazon's S3 Service, and then installed the Jungle Disk software. I now can automatically back up selected folders on my Mac, and have them securely and redundantly stored for pennies per month. Pretty darn good deal. Jungle Disk works on other OS's as well, so it is probably worth checking out.
Started managing my podcasts with iTunes. Watched the last 3 John Piper sermons. The "When is Abortion Racism" sermon should be listened to by everybody.
I need to learn to develop for the Mac.
I bought a MacBook.
So far so good. I am still fumbling my way around a bit, but I am catching on. Keyboard shortcuts seem to be quite important in Mac land.
MacBooks ain't cheap. Especially if you want service for more than a few days. Hopefully I will dig it, and perhaps if I am lucky I will even figure out a way to make a few bucks off of it.
Nathan appears to be potty trained. At his age (almost 4) it was pretty easy... It cost me 3 M&M's per peepee and 6 M&M's per poopoo.. The key phrase that sealed the deal is "You get to pick them out"
Once he agreed to the deal, he has only had one accident, and went poopoo for the first time without any encouragement or fanfare at all..
On a side note, the flu is rampaging through our family. I am the only one who has not had the full onslaught. I still feel a bit buggy, so it may come at any time. Nathan puked all over the Walmart today. Good times...
Jess and I have been having a pretty lively debate on the viability of Corn Ethanol. My contention is that the demand for ethanol is artificially created by the government political machine. It is something that everyone can pat their selves on the back about, but it does little to solve the problems that it purports to be solving. Some industries benefit greatly from the government subsidies, but the whole of society doesn't see an increase in value.
Jess believes that the American family farmer is finally feeling the benefit of free market economics, and the world is protesting. He also believes that ethanol is more efficient than critics claim. I am sure I am not doing his argument due justice. You can read his comments in their entirety at the above link.
I am likely on dangerous ground here, because Jess, a very good friend of mine is a corn farmer, one of my uncles is in the ethanol plant building business, and my employer is probably significantly vested in the financing of this business in many ways.
Anyway, I just call it as I see it. I am scared that our country is investing so much in a industry that is not going to be sustainable.
This article builds upon my fear: January 4, 2007: Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated
For the first time in a long time, I feel myself taking a rather liberal position. Taking 1/4 of the world's grain exports off the market would be a disastrous on a humanitarian level. Burning the world's food supply in our Hummers, Escalades, and Range Rovers seems to border on evil.
I think we should feed people before we feed our cars. There should be a tax on gas guzzling vehicles to even out the regressive effect of the gas prices. What I see now is wealthy people driving around in vehicles that demand a lot of gas, while the poorer folks drive around in more modest vehicles. The richer folks demand a lot of gas, thus raising the price for everyone. The richer folks are not impacted by the increasing prices nearly as much as those who are just getting by, so they continue consuming at whatever cost.
Perhaps we could issue a ration of gasoline per capita that would not be taxed, and everything in excess of your quota you would have to pay a significant premium for. The premium would go to offset the cost of gas sold within the per capita quota. If you have a family of 7 and need a large vehicle to get around, you will have the quota to use it inexpensively. If you have a family of 2 and just dig driving a Hummer, it will cost you.
The solution to America's energy and pollution problems are going to have to come from the demand side. We need to provide incentives to reduce our fuel consumption. Otherwise no matter how much fuel is available, we will be happy to consume it.
At several points during yesterdays football game I was very glad that my children where not watching. A good portion of the CBS show promos contained graphic depictions of violence or corpses.
On a side note, it is probably only a matter of time before it will be inappropriate to take my children through the drive through espresso stand:
Independent Online Edition > Americas
Luckily trends take 5-7 years to migrate from Seattle to Spokane.
I highly recommend that everyone avoid doing business with http://www.womendesignerclothes.com/. Chris Hayes, the proprietor of that outfit appears to be a man who fails to keep his word.
My mom ordered an item as a gift for my sister from womendesignerclothes.com. When they received it, it came with a note acknowledging that although they ordered one size, he was out of stock, and sent a different size. Of course the wrong sized clothing didn't fit. They returned it within the time frame allowed by his return policy. Initially Mr Hayes told them that a refund had been issued, but when they called back to follow up, he said that they hadn't returned it in time and he could only offer them a store credit.
They have delivery confirmation that the Jeans where returned within the specified 14 day time frame. It has been a month or so since this transaction and they still have not received their refund, and the business has been unresponsive about resolving the matter.
I will update this post when if they receive their refund. In the mean time, you would be wise to consider http://www.womendesignerclothes.com/ to be a incompetent outfit at best, and a criminal outfit at worst.
I guessed on some, and used elimination on others, but I squeaked by...
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