Posts from — May 2002

Happy Birthday, Merrin! You'll be glad to know that there will be a big, Harpers Blue Bonnet Bakery cake (your favorite!) waiting for you when you come home tonight! You can thank the dogs for reminding me on that one!

I hope you have a great birthday! It's hard to believe that we're celebrating our 7th birthdays together — today for you and tomorrow for me. I love you so much and I wouldn't change one day of the last (almost!) eight years we've had together.

Happy Birthday, Merrin!
My love always, Kev

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One of the smartest, most intelligent shows is back for it's second season (finally): The Mole II

The schedule is all over the place for the next few weeks, so be on the lookout for it. I promise you won't be disappointed.

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Cornell University "researchers" conclude that women who exercise after pregnancy lose more weight than women who don't.

Seriously?! If you exercise then you might lose more weight than someone who doesn't?! Well, now that we've solved that medical mystery I can finally sleep at night.

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We can never forget the sacrifices of our American service men and women. We can never forget the sacrifices of their families and loved ones.

To those who have served, to those who have waited for their return, to those who have lived boldly in a peace bravely provided you, to those you have read stories of heroes and felt inspired, and to those who have given their lives for a dream called America…thank you.

God bless America.

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A new product rollout has 7-Eleven putting Internet shopping kiosks in its stores as a test, with a larger rollout coming to 5,800 7-Eleven's in the next 18 months. Plus, shoppers will be able to pay with cash at 7-Eleven for their online purchases!

Personally, I think this is a great idea. I just can't believe that someone couldn't come up with it sooner!

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Ok, all you smarties out there, I need your help. I want a list of good kiss-offs for telemarketers and why they work. I'll step up and start the party:

"He's/she's dead." Ok, it's morbid. But it works. Why? Telemarketers remove you from the list because it wastes their time to recall you and it's illegal to sell a marketing list to another firm if they know it contains names of the deceased. (Not that we expect them to be ethical.) I'm currently in the process of field testing this one.

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Who on God's green earth thought it would be a good idea to make and market thong underwear to seven year old girls?? Not just thong underwear for children mind you, but thong underwear for children that says "Eye Candy" or "Wink, Wink" on the front??

I don't mean to sound self-righteous, but selling thong underwear to children is absolutely, 100% despicable. But not to the geniuses at Abercrombie & Fitch. But what do you expect from the same folks who thought it would be "cute" to sell tee shirts carrying caricatures of slant-eyed Asians in conical hats?! At least somone pressured them enough to pull the racist shirts.

So, to all the child-molesters working for Abercrombie & Fitch, do the right thing. This world can be brutal enough with subjecting young children to sexy underwear. Have some decency and recall this crap.

In the meantime (and from now on - for that matter), take me off your catalog list and don't expect to see a nickel from me. I don't want to be anywhere near a company that deals in child exploitation.

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I don't know how much Sony and Universal paid to produce new music CDs with built-in copy-proofing, but I do know how much it costs to beat it: $0.44.

The new copy protection can be foiled by a black marker . Fancy, huh? MSNBC.com even tested the marker-technique to make sure it's legit. Yep, works fine. Just take a black marker and "black out" the outer ring on the data-side of the cd.

In a related story, anyone caught with a Sharpie will be prosecuted.

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A group of American women tackling Mount Everest was forced to turn back just feet from the summit.

Quitters.

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If you use Microsoft's Hotmail service, you need to read this and take action now!

Microsoft recently added new "opt-in/opt-out" features for new Hotmail accounts. Folks signing up for new accounts can elect to receive promotional mail and share their personal information. If you already have a Hotmail account, Microsoft has added these options to your account as well. However, your Hotmail account is has been modified to share (at least) the following personal information:

Birth Date
Country/Region
State
ZIP Code
Gender
Accessibility
Time Zone
Occupation

Additionally, Hotmail may be sharing your email address as well as your first and last name.

To change this option, you need to do the following:

Just home from getting my hair (hairs?) cut for the first time in months. I don't know why I always wait to long, because I like my hair shorter. My wife like it's a little longer (I think) and my mother likes it longer still. But I like it short, so that's the way it goes.

I usually go to Great Clips/Super Cuts/whatever "hair-depot" place is cheap to get my hair cut. I have the "plain" American male haircut, so I've never been much for paying $20 to get it cut. Give me a $10 haircut and I look exactly the same as if I had paid $50. So why bother?

My barber was a guy today. That's extremely unusual in the hair-depot business. I think the last time I had a guy cut my hair was the cheap college barber shop across the Florida State campus. Usually the hair-depots are full of women barbers. Why? I don't know. Maybe there aren't as many men going to barber college. Perhaps all the men prefer to work in the "barber" shops. Even "RICK" at the hair-depot was in-between traditional barber shops. Before I left, he said to check back if I liked my hair cut and he'd leave some info on his next permanent locale.

Long story short, I had a guy cut my hair today for the first time in probably 10 years. So when I get home, my wife says, "Looks good, honey," like she always says. But then, after checking out the back of my head, she said, "Wow. They did a really good job. It looks better than it ever has."

So, now I'm asking myself, should I abandon the hair-depot and seek out a "barber"?

Anyway, my 29th birthday is now just 11 days away. I've figured out a couple of things I might like for my birthday. I've asked Merrin to get me a nice electric razor. I love my blade, but sometimes my face feels like it could use a break. I also need a new suit, a couple new ties, and probably some type of gadget. I love gadgets!

Hope you all are doing well. Check in with me later this week!

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Dear TiVo,

Please set a season pass for the new WB comedy "What I Like About You". TiVo, I don't care if you record one word of the sound or not. Let's just don't miss one second of Jennie Garth and Amanda Bynes. Thank you, TiVo.

Your loving master,

Kevin

For those of you wondering what all the fuss is about:

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OK. No one is really talking about these two events on the news and you have to really dig through the newspaper even to find a mention of an update, but it makes me kinda nervous.

Airport uniforms for Delta, Vanguard, and Midwest Express were stolen from a Kansas City, Missouri, uniform company on May 4th. Although it's being portrayed as a low-level threat, you can't help but notice the people downplaying the event are the FBI.

Also, Mexican authorities are still searching for any sign of a stolen chemical truck carrying 10 tons of cyanide. The truck was stolen along the Texas-Mexico border. If released into the air or simply dumped out of the truck, it could cause "massive deaths".

Am I paranoid? If I am, at least the beast thing about being paranoid is you're always the center of attention.

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Happy Mother's Day to my awesome Mom! I love you so much. I wish we didn't live so far away so we could see you more often. I hope get to relax and be queen for the day!

I love ya, Mom!

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Yep! Steve, formerly of Blue's Clues, has traded in the striped rugby for a shaved head and a pimp beard. (Sorry, kiddies!) So, what's Steve up to? Well, he's putting out a book, a record, and fighting rumors of his death over at his website.

After checking it out, the "music" is well, in the same neighborhood as music, I guess. But, more importantly, Steve finally spills the beans on where to buy the classic Blue's Clues rugby.

Props to Suburban Limbo for the heads-up.

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