things i did last night.

i have @shaxxon to thank for this one...

http://thingsididlastnight.com/

my favorite spam email titles of the day.

wow, what a fine waste of my time. i didn't even get any boobie pills or viagra spam. apparently the internet wants me to grow my hypothetical shlong 1-3 more inches though, that message is clear.

"she revealed herself to me"

revealed what? her junk was tucked between her legs? she has a closet crack-cocaine habit? what could it be?? oh.. she wants you to get a penis enlargement. didn't see that coming! i thought you two were so happy!

"shove it in her face"

oh you tricky bugger, i've gotten this one before! let me warn you prince charmings, it's not a 1-800-flowers ad.

"one set helps testes to product more sperms with improved quality and the other set of herbs makes you calm and relieve stress"

ok let me guess.. the first one is definitely not marijuana.. aaaaand the second one is deeeefinitely not speed-laced marijuana...

"Package and bottles are made to be discreet , also the billing is discrete for our customers privacy. Men are going to stand up and clap their hands at these penis enlargement capsules."

clap their hands?! really?! thank you bestirringx206@zybernetics.com for helping me with my premature ejaculation!

"achieve massive length"

generally i like to grow upwards but ok... let's see.. oh good i definitely want women to stare at my "large package". thanks avel-per1955@CONTINENTALNISSAN.COM, i didn't realize nissan was in the 1-3 inch growth business.

"Face your new mate without fear"

me amanda, you boy. we do birds and bees now. with an email that starts off with the word "dude", it's heartwarming to know this message is aimed right at you.

oh what a fine day.

digg with a spoon

i don't know how some sites support the digg widget. both when i tried on this site and on my other blog thingsiask.com, digg was the culprit for making my page slow as the dickens. i still have it up at TIA cause i have a few nicely dugg articles, but i'm not sure if it's completely worth it to have the widget up there.

it could just be blogger hating my guts but i guess that's the price i pay.

also on that note, i think it's funny that wordpress blogs get better SEO than blogger. blogger, even though owned by google might take up to a week or two to show up in search engine results.

however, when i first started this blog, i tried using wordpress, and my first blog showed up in Google THAT DAY. which sucked because then i had to wipe it from existence and it STILL SHOWS UP in Google even though it brings the user to an error page.

oh and on the digg note, i watched the second digg town hall live the other night and it was pretty amusing. i bet it would be fun to work for those guys. i think i met jay at the web 2.0 conference in san fran last year.. or maybe it was somewhere else. but anyway.. good to see that they appreciate community feedback and aren't too worried about their brand to put on a live show.

ok that's all for now. i just added entrecard to my site though i'm still not sure i "get it".

on the hunt for a nerdy GPS.

i swear, technology has not come far enough when it comes to GPS devices. i want the nerdiest of the nerdy. not to be a machead, but if apple made a GPS device, that bad boy would have internet, the ability to download music, audio, and probably tv shows, sync to your address book, sync to your cellphone and call said contacts.. it would be badass.

my current GPS is a tomtom go 510. it's pretty good, but not the best. i was able to hack it and give it my own voice which is hilarious. i should call the voice "bostonian road-rage". you can also hack it and give it a new screensaver and all those fun things. tomtom is REALLY good about customization which is why i love them. also, you can use it with your bluetooth phone and talk hands-free and even text with it. it's seriously badass with load time, both starting up and rerouting too. it even does a pretty good job in the numerous boston tunnels which i hear many GPS' are bad at.

my only issue is that i got a refurbished one and the dinghole gives me "unable to route" issues when i type in an address. not frequently, but frequent enough. oh and the POI's kind of suck, though they're getting better.

so anyhow, i'm thinking about a new gps, only because i really want one that does audiobooks and has better POI's.

you'd think that DASH would be the ultimate nerdy solution, but it's not. the reviews are not so great as far as navigation, traffic, and well everything else. i love the the fact that it has yahoo reviews and POI's as well as the ability to look for the lowest gas prices... but it has no bluetooth functionality.. or basically any other functions. i really need a little more nerd for my taste.

however, i think the new TomTom Go 730 might be my best bet. Why? MapShare baby. It's like that crappy DASH internet connectivity, except that it's community based. So when someone using TomTom adds a POI, says that there's a detour, anything like that.. I get updates on my device. I need to plug it in first to download the updates, but I can live with that.

Also... I'm reading now.. hands free: tell it where you want to go and you're off. fm transmitter: hear your instructions through your speakers. iq routes: takes input from tomtom users and gives you the best route depending on the time of day based on historial data. advanced lane guidance: now this is badass and one of the reasons i wanted the Navigon before i read it's bad reviews. it's cool because of the sweet in-depth view-age when you get into complex intersections.

and hello, i just saw that there's no need to hack, you can record your own voice on the unit right from the unit interface. sweet. oh and you can customize your car icon.

i think the TomTom 730 is the nerdiest of the GPS's in the $400 pricerange (spending more is just silly, i mean come on). let me know if you know of something nerdier.

scrubs ain't over!

since i'm a super fangirl of scrubs, i obviously have zach braff on my myspace friends list. anyhow, he posted this bulletin which i had to share, because if you're like me, you saw the "series finale" on NBC and went.. "ah.. this is how they chose to end the entire series"?

so yeah, this is what he wrote:

Dear friends,

Many of you have been understandably confused by the Fairy Tale episode of Scrubs serving as the series finale. It was not. I was not allowed to say it until today, but Scrubs will be moving to ABC for its final season. We are currently filming the 8th and final season. The true finale of the show will air on ABC in the fall. NBC merely promoted the Fairy Tale episode as the finale, as it was the last episode they owned.

Also, several of you were very confused by the fact that Dr. Kelso and Laverne were still working at the hospital in the Fairy Tale episode. Because of the writer's strike, the last remaining episodes for NBC were aired out of order. This is why Dr. Kelso was still chief of medicine. That was not Laverne however, for those of you who have been following closely; it was a new nurse "Shirley" who no one thinks looks anything like Laverne except for JD.

Hope this clears some things up.

peace and love,
zb

So yay. and a big fat BOO to NBC for being complete morons.

mothers day gives me chest pains.

oh what we'll do for our mothers. yesterday my mom decided she wanted to HIKE. she's lost about 100lbs via the gym and a low carb diet in the last year and now she's SUPER- ACTIVE- MOM- WHO- WANTS- TO- TAKE- HER- OUT- OF- SHAPE- DAUGHTER- ON- A- HIKE.

i think i did ok. i sent a picture to brightkite when i crapped out and took a break.


by the way, super-mom didn't stop for her broken down daughter, she sent my brother to find me.

i think i went into exercise shock sometime after that and i forget the whole journey back except that i remember saying "don't worry guys, at this point if a bear comes, i'm completely willing to sacrifice myself for you". the bear never came though.

today i am hurting in many places.

brightkite is neat.

so brightkite is all the rage. i think they were very smart about partnering with twitter, otherwise it would just be another web 2.0 site that was neat but that noone keeps up with. i think it obviously makes more sense than twitpic since it adds location based tweets, so i think i'm officially switched over (not that i used twitpic more than twice). on that note, i think i might actually use brightkite more often than i use twitpic.

i really wish i had it last month though, even in march, with all my caribbean traveling and then my san francisco, napa valley and ny trips. dangit!

i know these things are based on real time, but i would feel cooler if i could backdate some pictures and locations. is that weird?

i guess i can look forward to my north carolina gem digging road trip in july.

add me on brightkite so we can stalk eachother!