Ha! I didn’t realize that a phone was as sensitive a topic as politics or religion. Maybe, E-Harmony should add smart phones to their “29 dimensions of compatibility”. I think this guy is overreacting. It’s not like his roommate is one of those Emacs users.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/06/guy-moving-to-new-york-wants-a-roomie-who-doesnt-have-an-iphone/

This is an interesting application of crowd sourcing, and you still have time to be a part of it. I bet the idea wouldn’t work near as well if they tried to get a bunch of people to just sing one note of the song.

http://oneframeoffame.com/

This is too funny. ThinkGeek had an April Fools’ product of unicorn meat that they called ‘the new white meat’, so the Pork Board sent them a cease-and-desist letter. Unfortunately, ThinkGeek will have a much harder time turning unicorn meat into a real product like they did for the TaunTaun sleeping bag April Fools’ joke when there was a lot of interest in buying it.

Here is ThinkGeek’s reply:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/files/thinkgeek-unicornmeatrelease.pdf

I found out that property tax collector reports any overdue taxes your mortgage lender. So I get the letter from my mortgage lender, and I assume that it is just a clerical error, but I decide to double check. I find the 2009 bill, and I verify on my bank’s website that the check cleared for the exact same amount. I tell this to the mortgage lender, and I assume it will straighten itself out. But no, they come back to me to say there is still a delinquency. I looked at the 2008 tax bill, and I discovered that the check was written accidentally for 50¢!!! less than the amount due, and the 2009 bill had a tiny note on it mentioning the 50¢, but it didn’t include this in the TOTAL AMOUNT DUE line, so it’s not surprise that I missed it. This was especially annoying, since the letter from the mortgage lender warned me that they would start collecting the taxes and that failure to pay could result in loss of property, but nowhere do they mention that the amount due is 60¢ (yes, there was 10¢ of interest over the last two years).

By this point, I think there will be nothing else to annoy me about this whole process. Foolishly, I tried to pay the 60¢ bill on the Bexar county’s website, so that I wouldn’t have to verify that the checked cleared later on. Here is the error I got, when I tried to pay 60¢:

Well, I’ll just pay a whole dollar then. Not!

I write software for a living, so I do understand how they wouldn’t have tested for this specific scenario, but I still wanted them all to die. I’m a little less irritated at my tax collector, since they sent me a letter acknowledging my complaints, however, I doubt I will ever be in this situation again, and if I am, I might just let the bank take the house. It’s just not worth my sanity.

This is a very cool video, but the world would look even better to me, if Tootsie Rolls were all I see.

Well, if that isn’t the perfect name for a pet cat, I don’t know what is. There are other gems in this list.

http://www.heavy.com/comedy/2010/04/the-20-worst-video-game-box-covers/

I just had to try Chicken Fried Bacon at Wurstfest, and it really is as good as it sounds. My, how the grease glistens in the sun!