I know it's a strange place to draw the line...

While I think it is perfectly fine to dress up like the TARDIS, dressing up like the TARDIS control panel is just weird.

The Latest Way AT&T Pissed Me Off

I am an AT&T customer purely because they were the only available carrier when I got my iPhone and I have been too lazy to change.  But I may get around to it sooner rather than later.

It is annoying enough that I can get no reliable signal to my phone anywhere inside my own apartment.  A problem none of my visitors who use other carrier seem to have. This is kind of a high priority for me when it comes to phone carrier satisfaction.

But AT&T also has this smarmy habit of sending mail that is designed to look like the address was hand-written, to fool you into thinking it is real mail.  And when you open it up is is emblazoned with overly familiar greetings like "HI!" and invitation to chat with someone called David.

Here is what I want:

Dear AT&T

Hi!

I don't want to buy any other services from you and I do not want to chat with David about high speed internet or cable. 

I do want to be able to send and receive phone calls from inside my own residence.

Do you think may be you could stop sending me full-color deceptively package junk mail and get onto that?

Sincerely

Emily

The Case for Manual Ad Checking

I am all for advertisements including as many scantily clad figures as the advertiser may desire.  But I think a case could be made for manually checking where these ads appear, or at least ensuring they don't appear on pages with words like "rape" on them.

This would avoid a page that opens with "Sydney man studied how to be serial rapist"...

...would not be emblazoned with a tower advertisement featuring a scantily-clad female figure and the words "your body is my party, let's get started".

Nike's New Low

Successful people are allowed to fuck around, apparently. It may even be true to some extent, but I don't see it as an aspirational statement that enhances Nike's brand.

Hmm

I like a romance hero with unconventional looks.  But was it really necessary to use a pose where he is wiping his nose with her ice cream cone?

Glade

Bzzagent got me a free sample of this limited edition Glade fragrance spray.  The idea is that it looks a good deal more stylish than your average aerosol, with the swooshy-looking reusable cover. You spray it by squeezing instead of pressing down, FWIW.

It was perhaps a little too stylish for me so I punked it up a bit....

The smell is a nice, sort of generic sweet flower--like a lily maybe.  Certainly better than the smell of my dogs with all the rain we've been having.