Archive for the ‘General’ Category.
Residential Directory Assistance: 411
I was looking for someone’s phone number today. I had the hardest time finding residential 411 service, you know, where they ask “What city and listing please”. I finally found my number. You might find these services useful. None are perfect but here we go:
Most useful directory service first:
- http://wp.superpages.com (from Free, see comments)
- http://www.anywho.com/whitepages
- http://www.corp.att.com/directory/
- http://whitepages.com
- http://www.spokeo.com
- http://www.instantcheckmate.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-1-1
Also maybe useful
- 888-247-2425 Tellme/Bing
- 1-800-FREE-411
It was curious that dialing 411 on my landline and my cell phone both landed me with weird, unhelpful services.
How to Get off Carpet Cleaners Telemarketing Lists
Oop, I did it again. I hired a company to clean my fictitious rugs!
I’ve gotten about 5 robocall telemarketing calls from Carpet Care, 510-699-6152. I tried “press 9 to be removed from our list” a few times to no avail.
So I said “Yes, come clean my rugs!” They should be here tomorrow between 1 and 4.
I should be getting an angry human calling me tomorrow at 4:30 or so. At which point I believe I will be able to remove myself from their list.
I did this once before to hilarious (and effective) result.
A Terrific Holiday Break
I’ve been terrible about blogging about this of late, but I need to say what a great time I’ve been having with Megan and family over the holiday. We saw the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, opened presents and presents, went to Santa Rosa and to Bodega Bay. Megan is the greatest. I’m also thankful for a few moments of quiet after my stressful semester of classes, GRE studying, volunteering, and application putting-together.
Razors Kinda Suck
My electric razor is currently in the Berkeley Police property room awaiting me (long story). After 2 days without a razor, my face felt like a porcupine autofelating itself: not good. I’ll get my electric back soon but I had to pick up some interim Bic razors at Walgreens.
After lathering up my face, I touched the razor to my upper lip, gave it a tuGGHHHHAAARRRRRGwhatthefaaaahk?! Ouch!
What the hell are people thinking, using a razor instead of an electric is masochistic! I’ve used a rotary electric razor since 1990 and never looked back. And today I was reminded as to why!
Screw bladed razors, get a Norelco rotary electric razor! They rock!
Oh. My. God.
First, a chronology:
Jennicam
and soon…
Urthecast: 24 hour, live, streaming, 1 meter resolution . . . . earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVZA1V4Ttc0
local version: