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Your favorite pizza sucks, my favorite pizza rules! (Part 2)

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So, last time I blogged about pizza, I covered some of my favorites: Aiello’s, SLICE, & A’Pizza Badamo.  This time I’ll blog about other area big-hitters.

Beto's Pizza on UrbanspoonBeto’s is another place nearby that is just excellent.  They’re the place that you’ve probably heard of that doesn’t cook the cheese & other toppings.  You’ll probably either love it or hate it.  I dig it, the wife does not.  The only thing I’d change is the consistency of the sauce… I’m not a fan of chunks of tomatoes in pizza sauce, but the flavor is excellent.  They don’t get all fancy with toppings here either, just simple, straightforward pizza with cheese that’s melting as you eat it.  I think my favorite way to eat it is just as plain cheese pizza.  Why mess up such a beautiful combination?

Molly's Pizza on UrbanspoonMolly’s Pizza is close by too.  They have some great pizza, and some really crazy specialty pies like the Ranchero Steak Pizza and the Pierogi Pizza.  I personally like to get a pizza with zucchini on top.  Excellent stuff!  It’s hard to pick a favorite around here.

Fiori's Pizzaria on UrbanspoonFoiri’s is a south hills institution.  Sorry, I don’t get it.  Is it good pizza?  Most definitely.  Is it overrated?  In my humble opinion, yes.  Maybe I’m biased because you can get deathfish as a topping there.  At any rate, if you’re in the area and a pizza aficionado, it’s worth checking out before you decide that Slice is the best place around.

Il Pizzaiolo on UrbanspoonIl Pizzaiolo isn’t your regular Pittsburgh pizza shop.  They’re fancy.  They have great pies in a steep Neapolitan tradition.  As they say themselves…

…the restaurant has become a vibrant gathering place for lovers of Neapolitan pizza, pasta and Italian wine. Nearly everything on the menu is hand-made. And if it’s not made in-house, it’s imported from the best artisans, cheese-makers and salumeria in the world. Mozzarella di Bufala comes direct from Naples every Thursday and the pizzas are baked at 1000˚ in a handcrafted, wood-fired brick oven for less than 90 seconds. This, along with perfectly leavened dough, San Marzano tomatoes and extra virgin olive oil, produces the most authentic Neapolitan pizza possible.

So obviously, this is no Pizza Hut.  They make incredible gourmet pies.  Unfortunately it’s entirely not what I’m craving when I “just want a pizza”.  This is where you want to go when you’d like a nice evening out to enjoy some of the lightest most delicious pizza you’ve ever eaten.

Italian Village Pizza (Canonsburg/McMurray) on UrbanspoonItalian Village Pizza is all over the place.  Both by location and quality.  They used to have a killer A1 Steak Sub at the one on Rte. 51, but I don’t think they have that any more.  The last one I frequented was the one in McMurray, but I only ever got the pizza once or twice.  The steak & Italian subs are incredible, but the sauce was just too bitter for me.  It tasted like straight tomato paste with some basil thrown in.  Some people love it, but it just wasn’t my thing.

Here I’d also like to try to address this thing…

VinceNt’s vs. Vincent’s

I’m still not sure what the exact dispute is… if there’s still a dispute, and if there are only two Vincent’s involved in this saga.  Can anyone fill me in on this?  I’ve heard several amalgamated stories over the years.  Some credible news even.  First, you’ve got to get your head around the locations…

There’s Vincent’s Pizza Park – One on 30 in Irwin/North Huntingdon, one on Ardmore Blvd., and one in Holiday Park (the one I used to frequent).  And there’s Vincent’s “of Greentree” …oddly enough in Greentree, Southpointe, and the West End.  (There also seems to be a Vincent’s Pizza Pub on Mt. Washington – I’m unsure if they’re related to any of the others.)

I haven’t been to Vincent’s Pizza Park in Holiday Park in a long long time, but I remember it as the greasiest pizza I have ever had.  It was good, but greasy.  Some people like that.  I’m not the biggest fan of grease, but I remember they had a nice thick crust & a flavorful sauce.

I don’t think I’ve ever been to the Vincent’s in Greentree, but the one in Southpointe has great steak subs, garlic buns, and pretty good pizza.  Their “like it” percentage on Urbanspoon is pretty low though.  No idea what’s up there.

Vincent's Pizza Park on Urbanspoon Vincent's of Southpointe on Urbanspoon

Which Vincent’s is your favorite?  Which Vincent’s location is the best & the original?  (I think it’s Vincent’s in Forest Hills)

Please, chime in on any of these locations, any from my previous pizza post, or any that I may have missed.  I may dive into pizza chains next.  Pizza is always a subject of hot debate (and it goes well with beer).

Radical!

Radical!

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Thank You! [2011 in Review]

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 29,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Also, it told me this…

Who were they?

Your most commented on post in 2011 was Concert Stereotypes

These were your 5 most active commenters:

  1.   Dave | 26 comments
  2.   omawarisan | 20 comments
  3.   Sam | 17 comments
  4.   valleyofsteel | 11 comments
  5. Jennifer is Always Sick | 10 comments

So, thanks to all of you for being the top commenters this year!  Most of my blogs are meant to encourage discussion.  Hopefully here, though more likely on Facebook or Twitter.  (These numbers may be skewed, if you didn’t login to WordPress or use the same Gravatar email address, Facebook, or Twitter to comment consistently.)

I really feel that this is a great outlet for me.  It helps calm me down, & give me something positive on which to focus.  I really do appreciate all of the people out there taking the time to read, comment, and even subscribe.  Most of you are my friends in some capacity, and I’m glad that you continue to be interested in whatever I happen to be ranting about.

So, what do you want more (or less) of in 2012?

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How to pick a band name (for sadly uncreative musicians):

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Band names have always been fascinating to me.  They’re rather important for many reasons.  They need to be memorable.  They represent the band on flyers, album covers, in reviews, on T-shirts (& other merch), and anywhere else they can be printed or spoken.

This is why I’m continually surprised by local & national level bands choosing some inconceivably stupid monikers.  (Especially local level bands.)

I realize that it’s a difficult thing to do.  You’re sort of stuck with it once it happens.  (Although, I’ve seen a few bands morph & rename themselves several times.)  A lot of the good ones are already taken.  Metallica is probably the best band name ever as it’s catchy, it’s not something else, and it describes the music.  When you Google Metallica, there’s no mistake as to what you’re going to get.

Some friends & I like to think up band names.  Sometimes we hear a phrase or sentence or word & think (or remark) “…that would be a cool band name.”  It’s important to brainstorm.  Throw all of your goofy ideas at a wall.  See what sticks.

With the internet age upon us, I urge you to use all of the tools at your disposal when naming your band.  Primarily, Google.  Once you have thought of a band name or two, go to Google and type it in the search bar.  Hit search.  Have the idea?

If something comes up & a band is already named that, don’t name your band that.  Seriously.  It takes 3½ seconds to Google something.  You can even use Bing or Yahoo.  If you’re signing up for a website like Reverb Nation or Band Camp or Facebook or even Twitter… and there’s another band there already named what you wanna call your band, change the name of your band rather than having a goofy unmemorable and not even remotely cool url like one of the following:

  • reverbnation.com/[bandname]rocks
  • reverbnation.com/[bandname]1
  • reverbnation.com/[bandname]music
  • reverbnation.com/[bandname]_Pgh

I don’t care if you want to be a hit recording artist, or if you have resigned to just rocking out cover tunes in bars from not until the end of time.  This has been happening since the days of the old MP3.com, MySpace and PureVolume …and it must stop.

Avoiding these things makes your band easily searchable online.  People will give up if they don’t find you right away.  We’re lazy as a species, apparently.  Or we just have short attention spans.

Your band name has to be easily remembered, and your band should be easy to find.  I was in a band called Gasoline Dion.  Google that and nothing comes up except stuff about the band.  Like the name or not (& “get” it or not), it’s easily remembered & easily searchable.  That’s what you need to shoot for.

Maybe later I’ll blog about band name categories & give some examples.

For additional reference:

Have any lists or comments to share?

I find search terms rather amusing.

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I know I’m odd, but there are some real weirdos out there.  What is wrong with you people?  Check out these search terms that have landed people here at my humble little corner of the internet:

Search Terms for 7 days ending 2011-12-20 (Summarized)

7 Days | 30 Days | Quarter | Year | All time

2011-12-13 to Today

Search Views
lorisandra72@yahoo.com (Scammer!) 9
maze 6
batman joker 5
peter steele 4
goofy 4
difficult mazes 3
how to wash your hands sign (Apparently some of you still need this, at least you have Google.) 3
mcdonalds offer letter 3
amish beard cutting attacks cnn mugshots (lol.)
 3
complicated maze w/ traps 3
john simson hearing impaired (Scammer!)
 3
mazes 3
batman 66 cast 3
us.rop.mcd.com 3
gremlins 3
batman logo guitar six flags (I’d love some help here people!) 3
movies from my childhood 3
гитара (What?  Oh – “Guitar.”) 3
thomas lloyd 2
star wars death star in firing range 2
fart in math (popular!)
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peter steel 2
amish beard cutting post gazette(lol.)
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cartoon mouse trap dynamite 2
kai kennedy locksley 2
nutley brass ramones 2
world and lunar (Someone looking for me?) 2
debbieswill@gmail.com 2
star wars logo saber 2
lg arena standing/seating plan 2
ella.jones@us.mcd.com 2
#1 washing your hands is the #1 important thing in history 2
kmartfeedback.com (try the “http://” at the beginning, or read this.) 2
flow chart buy more guitars (yup.)
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weird guitars (yup.) 2
subaru vs batman (Batman fighting a car? When did I blog about that?) 2
the old batman movies 2
incessant (Who, me?) 2
nude mrs claus (Still don’t blog nudes.) 2
ewok zombie (Click here.) 2
help@customerservice.kmart.com 2
war games joshua 2
paul smith food scam (Bastards are out there…) 2
snooky hats ke a tobogin 2
meatloaf topping 2
“clean water action” pittsburgh sucks (Yup.) 2
washing signs tie 2
star wars christmas death star it’s a trap 2
carrie janota panera (Searching for yourself?) 2
panera vs bostone market (Panera still hasn’t replied.) 2
dave highfield, penn state blue band 2
google southeast asia disbursement center 2
scott kausky mcdonalds email canonsburg (Searching for yourself?) 2
80’s movies 2
remove sprint short codes 2
drunken santa 2
googlegiveawayteam 2
gizmo gremlins 2
c-3p0 data 2
“erin faulk” (Searching for yourself?) 2
fart math (popular!)
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ort danzig 1661 (What?) 2
difficult maze 2
universal monsters scenario 2
list of van halen songs with intros 2
leonard part 6 cast 2
pizza mazes 1
lourem 1
causes of allergens poster 1
sally wiggin mark madden (Was this an image search? Sally rules.) 1
pizzahut maze (Those bastards never wrote back either!) 1
shirt azrael rising 1
crystal skull vodka 1
please wash and dry your hands sign 1
nudes as santa claus 1
fart volume equation (popular!)
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fart and math (popular!)
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woolie cap 1
how to unblock shortcode texting with sprint 1
3472 × 2604 – yeah, you know the ones—-they’re skate shoes or in my book: poser shoes.  (You actually searched all of that?  Why?  What did it bring you to?) 1
reason why to stop playing guitar 1
passive aggressive notes marney thanksgiving 1
google 13th anniversary giveaway sweepstakes draw 1
arthur suydam samhain 1
best intro guitar 1
the misfits glenn danzig 1
gremlins cast 1
wash your hands guide signs 1
ticket #: 899-633/uk-11-001 with cgp # as/my/0010/011 drew lucky #: 9012-2449-4041(17) 1
watch cap wiki 1
lightsaber cheese cutter (Is there one out there?  I want one!) 1
the fish sendwith from mcdonald is bad 1
jelly wars domination (Um…) 1
santa bartender 1
dog domination (Um…) 1
wanted cheese ball 1
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amish ohio 1
feedback training@us.mcd.com 1
с днём рождения бэтмен (That’s “Batman Birthday” according to Google Translate.) 1
scott bergren email id (Searching for yourself?) 1
zakk wylde meme 1
batman guitar pick 1
satan vs santa 1
what does it mean message failed msg 1051 1
the evolution of batman 1
underwears through history (Why did this bring someone to my blog?) 1
mrs moon nudes 1
googlegiveawayteam.asia@shqiptar.eu 1
goonies fat kid 1
lunor jonny depp 1
kyle dine (Kyle rocks! Check out www.kyledine.com!) 1
satan in santa hat 1
izzy stradlin wears a hemet (Are you asking?) 1
hand washing procedures poster 1
excuse me i eating (& Googling.) 1
fender g ii e 1
4coloring.wordpress.com 1
googlegiveawayteam.asia 1
mr paul smith food order spam 1
employees must wash hands sign free 1
crazy discount double check meme 1
kuhns on banksville road (A dirty dirty store.) 1
“local celebrity” “has food allergies” 1
tim bendig (Searching for yourself?) 1
andy biersack batman tattoo 1
john maher state rep conservative 1
allergen warning signs 1
9230 shortcode texting 1
boba fett dragon 1
stop hand washing signs california (Wait, don’t wash your hands?) 1
scrotum domination (WTF? How would this bring someone here?) 1
cars parking lots google earth 1
giant eagle marketplace signs 1
ihop gluten free 1
1051 error message sprint 1
funny math equations (popular!) 1
lori sandra baker (Dirty scammer) 1
doyle von frankenstein and jerry only 1
batman foods 1
foxtrot thermostat comic 1
world.and.lunar.domination (That’s me.) 1
death star cheeseball 1
google uk office 13th giveaway sweeptakes 1
asian retching picture (WTF?) 1
elf in someones ass (WTF?) 1
you tube musicmustard pigs rock punk (What?) 1
sprint short codes 1
google asia give-away lotto 1
chinese new year proclamation governor rendell 1
batman else worlds 1
fart equation (popular!)
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didn’t panera used to put mustard on the smoked turkey  (Yes, until they decided it was bad for you.) 1
funny guitars (That’s me.) 1
sprint msg 1051 1
luci butler trans siberian orchestra 1
message failed. shortcode may have expired or shortcode texting may be blocked on your account. msg 1051 1
star wars holiday special easter egg 1
message failed. shortcode may have expired or shortcode texting may be blocked on your account. 1
vincents park pizza verses vincents greentree (Almost as hot as the Aiello’s vs. Mineo’s debate.  I still need to blog about part 2…) 1
sonic allergen info 1
warwick davis the phantom menace 1
star wars movie night 1
gizmo being sad 1
death star cheese ball 1
ramones vs danzig 1
wendy’s on west liberty 1
gitarre bb stone (Did you find it?  Why no comments? 1
guitar world top 100 guitar solos 1
“na.ko.com” “dear mr” 1
allow me to apologize 1
chik a fil a polite(The employees maybe.)
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lorisandra 72@yahoo.com 1
places that ship provel cheese 1
at help@customerservice.kmart.com 1
coal black poop 1
c3po dj 1
michale graves vs jerry only 1
luci butler trans-siberian orchestra 1
help@customerservice kmart.com 1
roger tullgren 1
lunar pawn 1
recipe decadent scalloped potatoes (Did you try/like them?) 1
gremlins gizmo film still 1
hello my name is john simson 1
hetfield santa 1
taco bell allergy warning 1
letter from mcdonalds 1
dingleberry man in the middle attack (What?) 1
star wars blu ray easter eggs not working 1
dan kish panera chef (Searching for yourself?) 1
tossel cap with pom pom 1
lit cigarette guitar (Did you find it?) 1
monster squad stream through netflix 1
the batman and joker part 1 movie pics 1
eagle instruments 1
scallop potatoes recipes “corn starch” 1
yuengling lager sauce (Bring it back!) 1
is long john silvers okay to eat if you have a peanut allergy 1
domination puss (Ew!) 1
meatloaf with cheese and ketchup 1
cooks.com hot dogs in beer 1
noreply@fritolay.com 1
people upstairs doing (…doing what?) 1
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arby’s bronco berry sauce 1
guitar girls thumbs (Is this a “tye 3 random words into Google” game?) 1
police officer james burke 1
dead lobster 1
functionless art 1
dhl domination 1
snookie cap 1
sonic menu allergy 1
dormont chief of police 1
black n white disney goofy tattoos 1
functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism. we are the vandals. 1
f__k. telina mcdowell north van slut (I have no idea what in this string of incoherence would have brought you here.) 1
how to unblock shortcode texting 1
chord avenged lips of deceit 1
6 flags batman guitar (Hello? You guitar people need to leave comments.) 1
purple hand ernie (Huh?) 1
shamrock murphys 1
yoda you will be 1
santa playing guitar 1
google asia give away team 1
why gavin thorn is an ewok (Who is Gavin Thorn, and why is he an ewok?) 1
free mazes to print (Please, send me some completed ones!) 1
dropkick murphys fenway skeleton party t shirt 1
how do they make hot dogs at arenas 1
kuala lumpur,malaysia. office of the lottery funds 1
pizza images 1
farming with dynamite, 1910 1
korean girl with guitar (Very specific tastes?) 1
dewey decible flipout guitar (Why are you guitar searchers not leaving comments?  Let’s talk about these things!) 1
tumblr domination para seguir 1
square guitar (Why are you guitar searchers not leaving comments?  Ask me about ’em!  Show me yours!) 1
what does msg 1051 1
what is the equation of fart (What is the meaning of life?) 1
santa asshole (Someone’s on the naughty list.) 1
little girl butt showing (I can assure you, none of that here.) 1
http://www.the trans siberian orchesrta.com 1
what was “the dumbest idea ever” ? 1
snooki ski hat 1
new wendy’s west liberty 1
sprint message 1051 1
sock monkey beanie hats 1
phantom pooper letter lamebook 1
afaa.org archive 1
where can i buy the eric clapton t shirt in adventureland 1
star wars holiday special” “cartoon pictures” 1
dingleberry cartoon (I’m afraid to Google this…) 1
electric roaster dressing recipe (Did you try mine in the crock pot?) 1
panera galleria mt lebanon general manager 1
cristmasstory 1
whats the common history of snyders of berlin and snyders of hanover (Denial.) 1
kmart in snail ville 1
“the explorers” commodore 64 1
rare vandals song 3:24 1
65.55.92.184 does not like recipient 1
buy more guitars flow chart 1
data vs c3po 1
batman guitar 1
dentist gas domination (Seriously.  WTF?) 1
usa dupont com 1
does w g grinders have a gluten free menu 1
Unknown search terms 51

Please, if you found what you were looking for, leave a comment.  If you didn’t…  You can comment on that too.  Let’s interact.

With the email addresses… think it’s people Googling themselves, or people entering an email address into a search bar thinking they’re sending an email?

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Dark Knight Rises Trailer #2

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So, it’s finally online with decent quality.  It popped up all weekend from poorly shot cell phone videos coupled with audio that sounded like a garbled speaker-blowing mess.  It was quickly taken down each time it popped up.

Warner Brothers must have had an army of geek-zombies patrolling the web, or one hell of a search-bot going.  They stuck down with the fury of an angry deity and swiftly removed any infractions.

It’s official & super high quality at Apple’s site, but it’s also elsewhere with a quick Google.

The Dark Knight Rises

Will Bane break the bat once & for all?

It was awesome to be a part of filming at Heinz Field that day for “Magnus Rex”, I owe many thanks to the people from BeInAMovie.com.  Bethany & I had a wonderful time.  I know my friend Erin & cousin Melynda were also elsewhere in the crowd in attendance that day.  Erin even got a badass Gotham Rogues T-shirt.  A lot of people snuck in cell phones & cameras that day.  I apparently naively did as we were instructed & didn’t bring anything like that for fear of being kicked out.

It was awesome that a Batman movie was filming in Pittsburgh.  I’m obviously a big Batman fan, so I couldn’t pass up the chance to attend.  It was a long hot day to be sitting in winter coats.  I can’t wait until this hits theaters!

Maybe when the Bluray comes out and we can pause it 8 bajillion times, we’ll be able to pick ourselves out.

Check out: Batman Movie Night

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Saturday December 17th – A punk rock party at the Fallout Shelter!

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Reposted from ErnieAndTheBerts.com – A punk rock show to melt your face:

Insanity. Chaos. Deafening yet hooky melodies. Beer.  If these all seem like good things to you, you need to be at this show.  Add this to your Google calendar, Yahoo! Calendar, Facebook Events, or whatever you do with Google+ or AOL or MSN or Compuserve or Outlook or whatever you’re using.  Tweet about it.  Get a car full of idiots and find a non-idiot DD.

Ernie would like to remind you to drink responsibly, tip your bartender, buy some of the various bands’ merchandise, and to wash your hands before returning to work or play.

Get the flyer below tattooed on someone’s ass that you see frequently, so you don’t forget.

The Bands:

The Place:

The Details:

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Ernie's twin brother

Chat.

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No, I don’t want to chat.

Google’s Chat or G-talk is integrated into the mail inbox, over to the left.  It’s in about the same spot with Google+.

Yahoo‘s chat/messenger is integrated into their mail service &the only chat/add requests I ever get are super spammy.  (They’re also annoyingly getting rid of the “Updates” tab/pages which I’m sure not many will miss… but it was a way for me to read Facebook & Twitter at the same time.)

The latest Facebook outlet puts the chat right on up there.  I have my chat status set to away or always off or whatever it is… but it’s easily fat-fingered back into “hey chat with me” mode.

When I set up Ubuntu on a laptop, I setup something that acts like an instant messenger with tweets that are “@” me, and I think I can Tweet or Update Facebook from it.  It was cool for about 5 minutes.

I don’t want to chat.

We can talk back & forth via our Facebook pages, email, Twitter, or even a text message if urgency is required… but we don’t need to chat or IM each other.

I don’t have the need to instant message anyone.

If I’m at Yahoo or Google, I’m checking my email.  I’m trying to read something, I don’t need my focus pulled away.  I already have a miniscule attention span.

I’m not tryin’ to hate.  I’m just sayin’.  I mean, my wife picked me up using AIM. She was all up on me like “lol“,  “🙂“,  “send n00dz“.  OK, maybe not that last one.  But she did make plans with me to go to Ritter’s.

Instant messaging is fine, I just have no interest in it while I’m doing other things.  There are plenty of viable ways to say hello to me, or ask me questions.  I can’t think of any purposed served by instant messaging at this point in life.

Why is it forced upon me by every email carrier, social network, & rogue open-source operating system?  (OK, the last one is my own fault.)

Even some websites have built-in creepers now.  “Hello, I can see you’re looking at several different widgets on our site.  Our knowledgeable associate Peter Parker is available to help, type your question below to chat now.”

NO!  Let me browse.  (I do the same thing anytime a salesperson approaches IRL.)

Quit it.  I already have enough browser windows open at once.  I don’t need a chat going on.  I realize that I’ve reached the point of being obsolete.  I didn’t think I’d ever be the type of person that rails against change.  I don’t know if I’m railing against it here, or just not rolling with it.

So, please don’t take offense if this one time fan of Trillian doesn’t want to IM any more.  Maybe we can Skype some time.  Or not.

Emergency "Twitter was down so I wrote my...

OMG!

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I won the lottery? “Giveaway Team® Asia” seems legit.

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I WON THE LOTTERY!  Well, according to this email, anyway.  I mean, seems legit, right?  It’s pretty awesome, because I didn’t even enter any lotteries.

From: Giveaway Team® Asia <googlegiveawayteam.asia@shqiptar.eu>
Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011
Subject: Google Asia alert: Your information has reached us today, kindly provided the required info.
To: world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.com

The Google Malaysia Office:
Level 40, Tower 2 Petronas Twin Towers
Kuala Lumpur City Centre 50088 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia. Tel : +60-103202061


Office Open 7 Days, 8am-6pm.
Date: 01 November, 2011.


Dear Winner (Googler),
You are welcome to the Google Giveaway Southeast AsiaDisbursement center here in Malaysia, I am DR. PETER AHMED, the Google Asia (Malaysia) Regional coordinator and processing officer for this year Google UK  Anniversary Giveaway Sweepstakes which was held in UK to commemorate our 13 years of existence , thank you for responding promptly to the notification mail you received from our UK Company promo announcer.Your winning details and email has reached us from our UK Office today as one of our 10 lucky beneficiaries whose claim fall within our disbursement booklet as indicated in your play coupon. Your e-mail address attached to Ticket #: 899-633/UK-11-001 with CGP # AS/MY/0010/011 drew L u c k y #: 9012-2449-4041(17) that was randomly selected by our Central Computer System under category A. This Promotion is organized by Google Organization (Australia,North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa) to commemorate our 13th Anniversary and also to say “Thank you” to all our regular Web Users Worldwide (who uses our Online Search Engine, our e-mail service and other online ancillary services) for joining us in expanding  the use of internet worldwide especially in ASIA and AFRICA  and also for making “Google Search Engine” & GMail the #1 Online Search Engine/Web-base Email Provider worldwide.

Please note that “No tickets were sold out” for this promotion but all email addresses were assigned to different t i c k e t numbers for representation and privacy. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from exclusive list of 200,000 extracted email addresses of individual and corporate bodies from 45 Email providers companies from Australia, North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa as part of International Promotions  Program, which is conducted annually.

As indicated in your play coupon, your name have therefore been short-listed to claim a total sum of £850,000.00 GBP (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling) from a total cash prize of £40,000.000 GBP shared amongst the first forty five (45) lucky beneficiaries in world-wide. Therefore, your prize payout is £850, 000 GBP which is approximately $1,390,913 US Dollars. Your claim shall be processed from this zone and your prize (Cheque) presentation shall be done at our office here in Malaysia or through our  affiliated Bank.
This giveaway sweepstakes promotion is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). To begin the verification process of your prize, you are   required to read through the options of claim and fill and provide the required information below:

Payment Option/Preferred Mode Of Payment

1 – Personal Prize Pickup:

All beneficiaries under the Asia claim zone are required to come down in person to personally pickup his/her Prize Cheque at any of our disbursement locations (cash pickup centers) here in Malaysia.
Requirements documents to come with for personal prize pickup are:
(a) An International Passport
(b) A tax clearance certification.
(c) Birth Certificate or Affidavit of age Declaration
(d) Police report attesting your patriotism and crime free citizen of your Country
Note: beneficiary(s) making use of this option must send the scan copies of the above documents along with the verification required information below. Beneficiary(s) who required invitation letter for Visa application (as  the case maybe) are required to forward the above mentioned documents scan copies via email to us to enable us process an Invitation Letter which would enable him/her obtain Visa in his/her country. claim deadline for this option is exactly 30 working days from today.
Inability for beneficiary(s) to meet up with this stipulated date either due to tight schedule, Official duties/engagement etc. may result to claim disqualification as funds will be re-used for other subsequent sweepstakes. This option is recommended to all our beneficiaries to clear doubts and unnecessary thinking as regard this Promo. This is because we have had series of complaints from individuals that people are using our company name for various forms of indecent acts. Thus, as a result of this we are advising our lucky beneficiaries to come over to our disbursement office here in Malaysia for personal prize pickup at no  cost.
2 – Bank to Bank Transfer:
Beneficiaries who can’t come down for personal Prize (Cheque) Pickup and wishes to have his/her prize via Bank transfer shall be referred to our affiliated Bank in-charge of international fund transfer . This option is an  alternative mode of payment basically arranged by the entire southeast Asia giveaway team for international beneficiaries who may not be able to travel down to Malaysia maybe due to tight schedule, Official duties/engagement, none availability of travel documents etc. which may result result to claim disqualification as previously mentioned above.
Note that the Give-Away Team Malaysia exempts itself from all related expenses when making use of this option, Our duty under this option is to deposit your prize Cheque (after issuance has been made in your favour) along with all claim backup documents (to be processed by this office) with our affiliated Bank for clearance and remittance to be carried out to your nominated bank account. This option is liable, affordable and basically designs for international beneficiaries who cannot visit us for person prize pickup.
====VERIFICATION REQUIREMENT====
***Complete the form below and send it back to us immediately via email***
First Name :…………………………………………………………………………………
Middle Name :………………………………………………………………………………
Last Name : ………………………………………………………………………………..
Date of Birth(YYY-MM-DD) :………………………………………………………….
Sex/Occupation :………………………………………………………………………….
Marital Status :……………………………………………………………………………
ADDRESS :…………………………………………………………………………………..
City/State/Province :…………………………………………………………………..
Country of Resident/Nationality:……………………………………………………
Telephone Number(s): ………………………………………………………………….
Mobile Number(s):………………………………………………………………………..
Fax Number(s):…………………………………………………………………………….
Winning E-mail: ……………………………………………………………………………
Alternate E-mail:………………………………………………………………………….
Date of Notification:……………………………………………………………………..
Ticket/ Lucky Number:………………………………………………………………….
Payment Option/Preferred Mode Of Payment.
Option 1: Personal Prize Pickup  {Yes/No} :………………
Option 2: Bank to Bank transfer  {Yes/No}  :……………….
We advice you on at this point to keep this information confidential until your prize is completely redeemed by you ,This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and impersonation by an unauthorized persons or companies which may automatically disqualify you from your prize claim.
For any question please call us on +60-10-320-2061
Once again accept our sincere congratulations!!
Sincerely,


DR. PETER AHMED.
Regional coordinator/Processing Officer,
Google Southeast Asia Disbursement Center
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So, I tweeted..

http://twitter.com/#!/W_a_L_D/status/131355483993944064

Then wrote back…

From: Waldo Lunar <world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011
Subject: Re: Google Asia alert: Your information has reached us today, kindly provided the required info.
To: Giveaway Team® Asia <googlegiveawayteam.asia@shqiptar.eu>

Hello Dr. Ahmed!

I was unaware that I had entered any lottery.  What an exciting proposition!  Unfortunately, I am no longer a citizen of any formally recognized nation, and a personal pickup may be an issue.  I have currently used most of my life savings to fly myself to the lunar surface, and need what little I have left to have supplies ferried back & forth while I continue my quest for world (and lunar) domination.  This financial windfall comes at the perfect time, and assures me that whatever deity in which you believe is on my side.

I understand that it is not your duty to pay for getting the money to me, but perhaps we can make some financial arrangement where you agree to be paid out of a portion of my winnings.  I trust that you will find this arrangement satisfactory, as I will eventually be the Emperor of the Earth (and Moon) and you probably want to stay on my good side.  I may let you continue to run state lottery operations on the moon.

Of course, once I’m in control, 70% of the money gained from the lottery will go directly to me, 30% to the winner, and of that 15% will be paid back to us in taxes.

Here is your verification form:

====VERIFICATION REQUIREMENT====
***Complete the form below and send it back to us immediately via email***
First Name : Waldo
Middle Name : L-ia (pronounced “Leh-dash-ee-ah”)
Last Name : Lunar
Date of Birth(YYY-MM-DD) : 10/31/1980
Sex/Occupation : Yes/Your Future Emperor
Marital Status : 13 wives & counting.
ADDRESS : 1313 Mockingbird Lane
City/State/Province : Sea of Tranquility, Waldominia
Country of Resident/Nationality : The Lunar Empire
Telephone Number(s): I abhor the telephone.
Mobile Number(s): Ditto.
Fax Number(s): None.  It is 2011.
Winning E-mail: world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.com
Alternate E-mail: worldandlunardomination@yahoo.com
Date of Notification: 11/01/2011
Ticket/ Lucky Number: Ticket #: 899-633/UK-11-001 with CGP # AS/MY/0010/011 drew L u c k y #: 9012-2449-4041(17)
 

Payment Option/Preferred Mode Of Payment.

Option 1: Personal Prize Pickup  {Yes/No} : No.

Option 2: Bank to Bank transfer  {Yes/No}  : No.

Option 3: Personal Delivery by Lottery Officials  {Yes/No}  : Yes!

I can’t wait to go tweet about my Google lottery winnings!  My minions will be ecstatic.  We were deciding who will be eaten first were we to run out of money and supplies.  If we need to eat someone before the prize is claimed, perhaps we’ll have our own lottery!  I’m not sure if it will be as exciting as our current Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock tournament, but general Zod will be relieved as he’s currently at the bottom!

Thank you for your congratulations & your cooperation!

Respectfully,
Your Imperial Majesty Waldo Lunar
Future Emperor of the Earth (and Moon)
World (and Lunar) Domination

They were apparently unamused, as I have received no further replies.  They will not be allowed on the moon.

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W(aL)D

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I have a bunch of stuff I wanna blog about, but I need the time to sit down & do it.  [I have some goofy World (and Lunar) Domination ones coming up, some half started… that seems to be what grabs more readers/comments.]

You’ll help write this blog post for me.  If you’re seeing the link on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ … please reply in the comments section here at the blog, not in the comments stream at Facebook or Google+, & not an @ through Twitter.  If you’re logged in on Facebook or Twitter you can comment down below using either account!

This one is relevant & easy to knock out because of the time of year.  I was trolling through Netflix on the Wii the other night, trying to find a good Halloween-ish movie to watch.

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Shaun of the Dead

My wife is scared easily, and wasn’t in the mood for House of 1000 Corpses-like gore or Alien–like “Ah!” jumps.  (I still can’t get her to watch Silence of the Lambs.)  I was thinking The Crow, maybe Monster Squad or Shaun of the Dead.

I thought of a bunch that weren’t available for streaming, like Wolf and Teen Wolf or even Beetlejuice.  I found myself unable to think of campy other spooky fun.

Help me build a go-to list of all of us who are too old to remember good scary/funny/creepy movies like Ghostbusters, Batman, Zombieland, Fido, Edward Scissorhands, etc.

Roku XDS

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While we’re on it, does a streaming service other than Netflix offer these movies, or am I going to have to start trolling the cheap DVD/Bluray bin at Walmart?  Maybe I just need to get a device like Roku that streams Amazon movies.

What movies make you want to mentally escape in front of the blue glow of your TV under a warm blanket on a cool October day?

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Borrowed this from the Ernie and the Berts blog…

⚕☣☤☣⚕ Attention Kids Under 21 and People Who Hate Cancer:

We have a show coming up that you ought to make an extra effort to attend.  We don’t do many all ages gigs, so this may be your only chance for a while.

This formerly had a slightly more impolite name, but it has been toned down a little bit:  P!$$ ON CANCER: A Musical Collaboration to fight for a friend’s life!

A friend of Bert’s has set up the show, and it looks to be (the good kind of) chaos.  Disgust in Disguise are a bunch of cool cats and it looks like there’s a really diverse set of musical genres happening, as well as a silent auction and some food & drink specials.

We’re asking you to come out, support a good cause, listen to some music, eat, drink, & be merry.  Please don’t literally pee on anything or anyone.  (This means you, Brad.)

Here are the details in case you missed ‘em!

When your body is your enemy, how would you choose to fight?

Join us as we take a stand against a friend’s cancer.
Help us fight his silent war.
March with us, beside him, as we tell his cancer to F@#! off!
He’s ours. We’re not done with him, yet!

The Bands:

  • 12:00 AM | Voices and Vessels | FB / RN / My_ / @t | (Metal / Post-Hardcore)
  • 11:00 PM | Disgust in Disguise | FB / RN / My_ / @t | (Metal / Hardcore / Punkrock)
  • 10:00 PM | Ernie and the Berts | FB / RN / My_ / @t | (Rock / Pop / Punk)
  • 09:00 PM | Lyndsey Smith | FB / RN / My_ / @t | (R&B/Soul / Funk / Pop)
  • 08:00 PM | Midnight Rose | FB / RN / My_/ @t | (???)
  • 07:00 PM | The Ele[mental] | FB / RN / My_ / @t | (Rock / Alternative / Indie Rock)
  • 06:00 PM | The Long Knives | FB / RN / My_ / @t | (Indie / Psychiatric / Distofuzzadelic)

The Place:

The Details:

If anyone has any more details, links that I missed, or a flyer, please let us know in the comments!

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