Customer Complaint Letter

A great customer complaint letter to American Airlines.  (If you dig down into this site you will find NSFW pictures).

via Digg

Accent Quiz

I took this online quiz last week to see what American accent I have. My results came back as a Midland Accent, the “default, lowest-common- denominator American accent.”

Wow. Default, lowest-common-denominator. Makes me feel real unique and special

And all of you who’ve commented on my ‘Southern Accent’? Your apology is accepted.

The Beauty of Photoshop

The Atrium at the Embassy Suites in Lower Manhattan.

Before:

And 9 or 10 mouse clicks later:

The Parents in Seattle

My Mom and Dad were out visiting for the past week. They left yesterday for a rendezvous with my Aunt and Uncle down in Portland. We were in full-on Tourist mode almost the entire time they were here. It was a little tiring but we had a great time. We asked them if they’d like to stay a little longer but they said, “Guests are like fish, they go bad in three or four days”.

If you’re interested, my Dad blogged (is blogging) their trip. This entry has some amazing pictures of some of the the Pacific Northwest’s volcanoes. And later on, since this isn’t a family friendly blog, I’ll post some pictures from the Fremont Parade.

Southpark JB

Beware Kemper when he has a new toy.

(composition by B Kemper)

Worst. Muffin. Ever

My parents are in town visiting. On Wednesday afternoon, they were wandering around Wallingford and stumbled across the Farmer’s Market. They ended up buying some fresh asparagus and for a quick snack, a muffin.

It was a $5.00, organic, whole grain, fair trade, free range muffin. Twenty-one grains. And somehow, the person who baked it was able to extract every last bit of taste from each one of those 21 grains while achieving a density usually reserved for cured meats. Amazing.

Interesting US Map

(click on the map to enlarge it)

This map of the US replaces each State’s name with a country whose GDP (Gross Domestic Product) closely matches the individual States GDP.

Read more here……

(via the Slog)

Southpark Brian

For those of you who know Kemper-San.

(Composition by B Kemper)

Southpark

A cool site where you can create your own Southpark character.

Here’s my guy:

Miami Vice

Manny really likes Miami Vice.

Back in 1984, Miami Vice was one of the hottest things happening in the entertainment business. It was one of the top shows on television and it’s soundtrack was the number one record on the charts for 12 consecutive weeks, the record for a TV soundtrack. People actually liked ‘In the Air Tonight’ by Phil Collins. And man, Crockett and Tubbs were it, they were everywhere. The hottest tuxedo at my Junior Prom was the Miami Vice Line.

The hype wore thin quick and a few years later the show faded away. The whole thing kind of became a caricature of itself. Today, I think some people think of the whole thing as classic 80’s cheese.

It’s clips like this that remind me of how cool the show was the first few years. It was TV 2.0.

(And the black Ferrari is much better then the Red Ferarri later on. That may have actually been when the show Jumped the Shark.)