LameList!

I’ll never go to a store to get a cell phone again. I ‘ll always buy online.   A tale of 2 shopping experiences.

The lame experience:  Couple of years ago, it took about 2 hours at the AT&T store to get my new phone.  A lot of the time the sales guy was  fumbling around to get the phone activated (I don’t think he knew what he was doing though he claimed the “system” was down but it a chance for him to sell me stuff I did not want). Store was crowded and cramped. While the network was “down,” the sales guy kept trying to sell me a different phone, then a warranty, then accessories.   Awful. Lame-o-rama.

The easy-peasy not lame experience: The next time I needed a new phone I bought it online from amazon.  Lots of choices. I even found a great phone for 1 cent. Plus, I changed carriers and kept my old number. Easy peasy and phone worked great.

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look out world here I come, I just installed wordpress for iPhone!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Boo hoo, but actually kind of funny in a lame, pathetic way.  Major League Baseball player Grady Sizemore took  ”personal” (steamy, racy) photos of himself.  Now the photos are all over the internet and Mr. Sizemore has the lawyers of Major League Baseball chasing down all the websites demanding the photos be removed.   Photos are staying up at deadspin.com (warning: not safe for work for many workplaces) which I give credit to for not caving.

Sizemore, center fielder for the Cleveland Indians, salary was $4,766,666 last year yet called in a posse of MLB lawyers. MLB lawyers are lame to waste their time on a sophomoric act gone wrong.  Anyone who thinks digital photos don’t circulate, has rocks for brains.

The Christmas emails from merchants are already rolling in fast and strong. One just in from JCPenney has the subject: “We Believe In Angels!”

Here’s a fabulously funny bit from the comic George Carlin about angels:

“Here’s another question I’ve been pondering – what is all this sh** about angels?  Have you heard this?  Three out of four people belive in angels.  Are you f***ing stupid?  Has everybody lost their mind?  You know what I think it is?  I think it’s a massive, collective, psychotic chemical flashback for all the drugs smoked, swallowed, shot, and obsorbed rectally by all Americans from 1960 to 1990.  Thirty years of street drugs will get you some f***ing angels, my friend!”

No more Raffi for my pre-school son.  He has a new groove!  Here is his newest favorite song.  I recently found a radio station that plays the “greatest hits of the 60s and 70s.”  Have yet to hear a commercial on it.

Pike Place Fish is a major tourist attraction in Seattle.  Fishmongers skillfully toss a purchased fish from the front display  to the back side of the counter.  Crowds gather and cheer.  It’s quite a show and is often on TV for local interest on national broadcasts of a major sports events.

According to the Seattle Times,  these fish-tossers are scheduled to make a presentation at an upcoming convention of veterinarians.   Enter PETA, the animal rights people. From their letter to the vets:

You should know that people who care about animals are appalled that a veterinary organization, whose purpose is to represent the interests of those whose jobs involve protecting the well-being of animals would promote an event in which animals are treated so disrespectfully and are handled as if they were toys.

These fish are dead. Gutted. Cleaned. About to be fileted and wrapped up to be taken home and pan seared or grilled.  I love salmon, especially with a nice Oregon Pinot Noir.

There is even a business book from these fish mongers called When Fish Fly: Lessons For Creating a Vital and Energized Workplace From the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market.

 From yesterday’s Wall St. Journal,  a tidbit from their panel on “The Future of Sports,” Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball, on steroid use in baseball (bold for emphasis is mine):

I’ve had one writer after another come to me and say over the past decade, “I don’t know how they expected you to know. I was in the clubhouse every day.” And it wasn’t that I didn’t want to know. Or that I was in denial. I merely just didn’t know. So, if you’re sitting up in your office somewhere, how did people think you or others would know? When we didn’t know. And I don’t really think they were in denial. I think — I say this very candidly — in the retrospective history, it’s always easy 10, 15, 20 years later to tell somebody, “You should have known.” It isn’t only the steroid thing. It’s in anything in life. Whether it’s in political issues or foreign affairs or anything else. You can look back 15 or 20 years later and be awfully smart.

What a lame, bureaucratic attitude and excuse. No leadership. No accountability.  

Get out of your cushy office for once, Bud. 

Today, we learn that Manny Ramirez Is Banned for 50 Games after testing positive for a banned substance. This past week brought us news from a forthcoming book from a Sports Illustrated reporter that Alex Rodriquez may have used steriods in high school and as a Yankee despite his repeated denials.

Here are some funny images of the juiced athletes.  Might as well laugh at it. That the steriods thing has been going on for so long in baseball is pathetic.