Posts Tagged ‘wtf’

Cavemen and Fire

June 16th, 2011 by Manda | 2 Comments | Filed in Family, Travel

“Our family is like cavemen and the camera is fire.”

So said my wise brother during a two-day family excursion to Guangzhou. The amount of time spent in front of minor sights with various combinations of people and different cameras used (since, in today’s digital age, it made more sense to use every camera in possession to take photos, rather than stick to one camera and share the photos with everyone at the end of the trip) was headache-inducing. There is a reason for the Asian tourist stereotype of taking photos for every little damn thing encountered.

I’m seriously thinking of investing in a green screen and presenting it to my family. It’s not like they are concerned about the sights; the photos are all about the people and have little to no focus on the background. A green screen would take care of everything.

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No Thanks, FirstHosting

January 17th, 2010 by Manda | 10 Comments | Filed in Online

The following comment popped up in my moderation queue this morning, which I promptly marked as spam:

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Best of luck

Really, FirstHosting? Really? You’ve resorted to spamming on blog entries to try and promote your company? If you need new clients that badly, try some other form of advertisement campaign that doesn’t involve spamming potential clients as that is never a way to attract business. But if spam is the only way for you to get word about your company out there, at least use proper grammatical mechanics. Spaces after commas and periods are a necessity, you know.

I already have a list of hosts I do not recommend whenever my friends ask for advice about buying hosting and FirstHosting just got added to it. Sucks for them.

ETA: FirstHosting claims that the spam comments are “fake and part of a campaign” against the company. Until they can prove that by providing IP addresses that do not match with that of the spam commentator’s (I believe Hannah has asked them about IPs), I remain unconvinced.

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Country Style Sausage

March 26th, 2009 by Manda | 5 Comments | Filed in Food

Country Style Sausage

I was out grocery shopping the other day, as I sometimes do, and I stumbled across this when I was in the meat section. It’s a little unsettling to see minced pork shaped into the head of a pig, complete with cherry tomato eyes, as the minced pork were snow being shaped into a snowman with coal eyes or something!

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