Frozen Dog Poop
Well, despite the ability to buy Dog Shit in a Tin, you might want Poop-Freeze
Some of the reviews are quite funny.
Add comment October 6th, 2006
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Do you want to believe in God?
Of course, there is an option if you’re not OK with not knowing…
You could always try the Believe in God Instantly breath spray.
2 comments September 1st, 2006
Making it OK to not know
It’s difficult, sometimes, to explain that I’m comfortable not knowing something.
It may seem counterintuitive to be an intellectual and comfortably ignorant. I, as an atheist, am comfortable with how many unexplained aspects of life there are. Watching something with David Blaine performing his “levitation” this evening with Amy, she asked, “How do you think he did that?”
I’m comfortable not knowing. I said, “I don’t know.” I know there’s a rational answer, but I don’t know what it is. I texted her, “He is Jesus.”
Prior to the levitation, he had performed a card trick after which he pulled the participant’s watch out of his pocket and returned the purloined item. Rewinding (yay DVR) showed that while performing the trick, he slipped it off the guy’s wrist. Plainly visible in slow-motion, it was obvious that the distraction involved in performing the trick, which included hitting the guy’s wrists, also undid the wristband, and he simply slipped it away in the “confusion” of the situation.
With the “magic” exposed in that trick (even the word used to describe “magic” — trick — tells that it’s all about making someone think one thing while causing the reality to be another), I can appreciate the fact that Blaine is good at confusing people into not seeing the truth. I just don’t assign the same value to the “magic” part of it that some others do.
I know that I’ve been decieved, and I’m OK with it. I’d like to know how it was done, but I’m fairly confident that there’s nothing supernatural going on, so it doesn’t get to me.
People that really need an answer either find one, or make one up. Or twist facts to make it look like there was an answer. When there’s a limited enough system that there’s a reasonable expectation that all of the inputs can be known, I may look for the algorithm that can create the observed output from those inputs. When I know that I don’t have enough of the inputs to perform a rational analysis, I either seek additional information or decide that I simply don’t know.
I think that’s a rational way to operate.
And I think that string theory is an answer looking for a question. (A little nod to ShandyKing)
1 comment August 27th, 2006
Free Haircut at Nick Arrojo’s Arrojo Studio
Time is running out, but if you’re looking for a great haircut experience, stylist Topher at Arrojo Studio is offering a few free haircuts. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been and was very happy. Nick Arrojo, who owns the place, is the stylist on TLC’s What Not to Wear.
Actually, I’m beyond overdue for another haircut, I should see about heading down to Varick Street on Saturday. Considering that Amy lives only a few blocks away, I’m sure that I can arrange a little hop on down on Saturday, perhaps. I guess I should see if Chuck has any spots open.
1 comment August 23rd, 2006
Apple Store Unusable
So… I went to the online Apple Store to buy a gift certificate for Amy to pick up more episodes of her new favorite thing to buy on iTunes, Prison Break. Got all the way through the checkout process, and told her to check her e-mail. Nothing. So I went and looked back at the Order Complete page. In relatively small, unadorned type, below the ordered items list (which still had the item, but had a total of $0.00 at the bottom), I found:
We were unable to process the iTunes Music Store Gift Certificate portion of your order. Gift certificates require a U.S. billing address. Please save your order for later and provide valid U.S. billing information for your account
OK, it wasn’t completed, but nobody said “HEY, YOUR ORDER DIDN’T COMPLETE, FIX SOMETHING!”
And, of course, since I live in New York City, I live IN THE US. So… either this was an address verification error by Apple or the credit card company.
I logged back in again, which itself was nutters. I don’t know why I should have to keep logging in if I’ve never left the Apple Store part of the site. I went to my account details, and tried a variation on my address. I live in an apartment, and my address is something like “123 West 4th Street Apt 56″, so there are lots of legit variations on the way to put that, so I’ve tried several. There was even a place for my credit card’s security code, so I put it in there. Validated fine for them in the bit about my account. 4 or 5 failures with the same crap about my not living in the US.
And… it said on the page that if I needed to contact someone by phone about my order, to wait a half hour for the order to get into their system. Where’s the “click here for live help”?
Apple’s value proposition is the “experience”. Mine sucked.
Add comment August 5th, 2006
