Things I don't understand

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

What’s That Funky Smell, Indeed

Walked out to the Jetta this morning, started it up, turned on the defroster, heater and just for kicks, the driver’s side seat warmer and dumped my bag and Ellis’ lunch in the front seat. Went back into the house to get Ellis (and Jonah so I could take him to school and E. to day care).

Came back out and my car was on fire.

Well, OK, technically, it wasn’t on fire so much as the drivers seat was smoking and the whole machine smelled quite bad.

And now there is a hole in my drivers’ seat where the seat warmer went ka-blooey.

I’m pretty sure that if I had dawdled in the house for a few more minutes I’d have come out to a 2003 Jetta 1.8T, fully engulfed in flames.

The irony of this is that I don’t really like the seat warmer things. And how glad am I that I wasn’t *in* the seat while it began to smolder? Because everyone knows that the stench of burning “Jon” is *much* worse than burning upholstery.

*UPDATE*
Here’s a photo of the damage:

Jon scribbled this mess on 10/11/06 at 12:03 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Things I don't understand Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Wha?

Why can’t you buy “The Smiths” from the iTunes Music Store? You can buy Morrissey solo stuff. And all kinds Johnny Marr ("The The"), but no love with The Smiths.

I can understand why The Beatles are being all wierd. The whole Apple Records v. Apple Computer fiasco. Fine.

And Led Zepplin. Fine, Page and Plant are only willing to sell out for GM (Cadillac) for stupid car commercials. Whatever.

But The Smiths? And here I sit with a hankering for “Meat is Murder” and it’s going to go UN-FULFILLED.

grumble.

Jon scribbled this mess on 08/16/06 at 09:42 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Things I don't understand Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

I’m Famous on the Internet!

I don’t really understand how this happened but try this:

Go to Google Image Search

Type in “lortab” as your search term.

Wait for results.

Now if I’m correct, you’ll see a bunch of photos of pills. And maybe a group of doctors. But nestled in there on the first page of results will be a shot of MOI, in all my glory. It was taken a days or so after I had my strabiumus (eye muscle) surgery. Wicked red eyes and frankly… I look horrible.

Here’s a screen shot of what I’m talking about in case you don’t want to go through the motions up there:

I figured this out as I was perusing my apache logs files, trying to track down an evil comment spamming bot. I saw a fair number of hits from google and they were all coming with the search term “lortab” embedded in there.

The intarweb’s a very strange place, my friends. And how HAPPY am I that you can find a photo of me when you search for a picure of a legal opiate? Roll me in oat floar, Martha and cook me on 350° for twenty minutes until I’m golden brown, I’m just delighted.

Or perhaps not so much.

But my favorite search is growing in results: Up from 55K to 110K! Impressive.

Jon scribbled this mess on 05/02/06 at 09:26 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Things I don't understand Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Friday, November 18, 2005

Things I don’t understand

Why, when you mistype an address in Google’s domain (like this, for example) and get their 404 page, it doesn’t have a “Search” box.

‘Splain this to me, Lucy.

Jon scribbled this mess on 11/18/05 at 01:43 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Things I don't understand. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link
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