http://www.gizmoproject.com/learnmore-allcallsfree.html
Gizmo says to Skype: So, free calls to phone lines in the US eh? Guess what we have?
'Scuse me while I whip this out.
Unfortunately, Gizmo requires you to jump through a few hoops, nothing terrible but still…Skype, Skype is easy like Paris Hilton and a video camera, to put it as I read it recently…
From the archive files of Garrett Socling…
Lihue
Just got done with a week in Lihue. Work consisted of 4/5 of the trip, with a drive around the island Saturday, a drive to Wemiea Canyon Sunday morning and an hour at the beach Sunday afternoon. Somehow we still managed to take a boatload of pictures (see here).
Lihue is…nice. Of course, 99% of the time the weather is absolutely perfect: summer 85'F day 75'F night, sunny, light breezes and about 60% RH. winter, mostly the same but 10'F cooler. The landscape is bowl you over beautiful, mostly tropical with these tremendous mountains everywhere. A little drier along the south and west, wetter along the north and east. The island is 'centered' around Lihue, which is the town with all of the services. North and west of Lihue, a single mostly two-lane highway reaches around 70% of the island. I'm not sure what happened to the last 30%, perhaps it was incredibly rough terrain. The two lane reaches increasingly smaller towns and increasingly fewer two-lane bridges. We traveled to the northern reaches, which was an interesting experience. Mentally I already know Lihue is in the middle of nowhere, but somehow travelling down this tiny road past tiny towns, smaller and smaller, you get a real sense of driving back in time before human habitation, or back in time in some lost country.
The only real development off the coast of the island is a tiny road up Wemia Canyon, a terrific gorge with terrific vistas. Nothing else up there, but at least there is a little road to check it out with.
The water was fairly warm, I'd guess around 80'F. Good for swimming. The sun was hot, somehow Kelley and I managed to get slightly red with laying out for about an hour…
There is a real lack of public transportation on the island, and a real lack of road signage, beach parking and beach access signage. I think it is primarliy because the island is very laid back, and no one ever got around to worrying about things like marking highways and whatnot. Its good enough for the locals, so…
Do yourself a favor and avoid the big chain restrauants like the plague. The local restrauants (even the most humble of them) cook a hell of a burger compared to the self-proclaimed 'Burger King'.
Overall impressions: K sez although it was a state of the union (Hawaii even) it felt more like a third world country, somewhat Ghetto houses (out of style) and general wilderness/unkempt. I somewhat agree, it doesn't really feel like the United States out there, other than the language and the money. Too touristy for K's taste, which I find interesting, as most 'tourists' wouldn't find much to keep them entertained, while most 'escapists' would find the development 'just like home'.
Beautiful out today. Yesterday, through sheer force of will, it only rained enough to keep the sky cloudy. But, a date is a date. I'm still feeling pretty out of sorts.
Here is what I had to say last night:
3:19am..hello world…
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Pictures : Flickr
Video : Google whoops!
A story best left for the dark
I can set the permissions to private, invite only if anyone cares.
I feel very sick to my stomach.
EDIT: This is worth your three minutes too!
In a public statement, AOL's Nicholas Graham claimed that John, "violated our customer service guidelines and practices, and everything that AOL believes to be important in customer care - chief among them being respect for the member, and swiftly honoring their requests." If this is true, then why is there such a complex system designed to thwart those very requests?
That is what AOL says.
If you stop and think about it, every Member that calls in to cancel their account is a hot lead. Most other sales jobs require you to create your own leads, but in the Retention Queue the leads come to you! Be eager to take more calls, get more leads and close more sales. More leads means more selling opportunities for you and cost savings for AOL.
That is what AOL does.
Just like el presidente of our own little banana republic, it seems you are allowed to say whatever you want to the public, lie and deceive like the Devil has a pitchfork up your ass, without repercussion.
What. The. Fuck.
UPDATE!!!
BoingBoing has a little piece where the President attacked the German chancellor, and the LA Times reported it as a friendly massage. Check the video yourself!
Lies, lies, lies…
FURTHER UPDATE!!!
CNN.com trying to belittle blogs and pimp how established media is all about the truthiness:
Bush was actually in Delta Kappa Epsilon. Another Web 2.0 truism: Blogs are not always friendly with the facts.
Web 2.0? Blogs? Facts? Truism? Congradulations asshat, you've embedded the required keywords with a minimum of actual meaning. Sigma Chi? Fuck, the more I read that section, the more irked I get. Congradulations CNN, 'Mission Accomplished'.
Who doesn't give a fuck about 'princess' diana?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13858261/
People and the things they decide are important…fucking witless monkeys…as you might have heard, Nero fiddled while Rome burned, so I guess nothing should be a suprise…
Update, completely unrelated except for the "Am I the only person" bit, a few hours later: I heard a quote in a movie, it really stood out to me: "When I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?"
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