Saturday, March 11, 2006
I dreamt last night I accidentally erased a bunch of photos in my digital camera before I got a chance to upload them. Woke up early today: around 4:45 AM. Breakfast: hash browns, teriyaki something meatballs, scrambled eggs. Patrick got home from shao lin practice and showered and took a nap. I found a fortune behind the rack mount computer just now: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Did some organizing of things in the bathroom and various closets, tidied some computer cables. I stumbled across cb2.com today—neat—but I couldn't figure out what the difference was between cb2 and c&b despite what they said on their "about us" page. I canceled my membership today with the Shell Motorist Club which somehow morphed into the Motorist Program provided by the United States Auto Club. A very polite man (Texan?) assisted me with the cancellation, but I was surprised that he didn't bother to ask me why I canceled: I found one day that they no longer bothered to maintain a website. There used to be websites at shellmotoristclub.com and shell.com/us-en/shellmotoristclub, but not anymore. And I don't recall Shell or United States Auto Club notifying me about any transition of ownership. I searched on the phone number they provided to us for roadside service—1-800-355-7263—and I couldn't find any website describing the service. I found 11 web pages which referred to the phone number, but none saying, "here we are and here's our legitimate service." The service might still work, but the lack of a website makes me feel uneasy about doing business with them. The man said my $54 annual charge would be prorated and refunded back to my credit card—exactly what I had hoped. I stumbled upon a fun, short piece of writing by sumo_rhino on epinions dated May 22, 2001 and titled "Quest of the Out-of-Print Oracle: Part 1." I notice today that Chris's blog (psychobauble) is doing some fancy footwork (presumably AJAX, presumably via WordPress 2.0.2) when I post a comment—neat! I laughed painfully hard today at a link to some Engrish on rahoi.com that Chris sent me. Cowboy leg (beautiful pole); frog gruel; GIGI—it's not me, it's the wind. It's all good. Worked on Corinna's website: gathered images. Cut my hair, took a shower then a bath.