Author Archives: Randy Peterman

Pulling Out the Big Guns

No, I’m not talking about Iraq, I’m not even talking about gangsta rap. I’m even ignoring issues like cartoon violence [which is surely the reason that I chased my brother with a hatchet as a 10 year old, it wasn’t my fault]. I’m talking about Allergy Relief. My allergies have been almost completely missing since I wen to Adam Tomasetti, an applied kenesiologist. However, Singulair does something that goes directly against the Prime Directive. It blocks Leukotrienes.

What the heck? Do you sit around cursing Latrines? I don’t. And when John and Jane Doe are at home dealing with their generic allergies are they cursing Lukeskywalker? I think not.

Merk needs a new marketing strategy.

Anti-Elvis Impersonation Next Email Front

Almost since the invention of e-mail, e-mailers have battled unwanted junk mail, or spam. Since the creation of products like Spam Assassin, which acts like a Jewish rabbi making sure your emails are kosher, spammers have faded out, but in that time period Elvis impersonating e-mailers have more than tripled. Companies like Microsoft have opened up a new division to handle the development of Anti-Elvis filters.

“We’re seeing a drastic increase in the numbers of emails people get from Elvis@Graceland.com. Users will come in to work in the morning and have 30 messages in Chinese characters with the from saying it is Elvis. One woman is in counseling in Alabama because of the devastation it caused her…. Apparently she had met Elvis in August of 1977 literally days before he died.”

Attorneys at Vegas, Hipswing and Su-yu see this as an affront to their clients in Graceland where the widowed Priscilla Presley is tired of getting emails from people claiming to be her deceased husband. They claim that if they find the ‘perp’ who did this they’ll have to ‘litigate to mitigate’, ‘sue to stop’ and warned that no-one should step on their patent leather shoes.

The author suggests that e-mail users simply just set up a filter in their email client and deal with it that way. However some experts suggest you not due this so that legitimate email from Elvis not be sent to your trash folder. A representative of the RIAA was quoted as saying:

“If Elvis is out there then we want to make contact and locate him. He may need medical attention.”

The RIAA is very concerned that Elvis be located if he is alive. They claim that he would be a strong voice against illegal file swapping.

How Not to Design a Flash Site

If you go to the following link Product promotion selector you’ll see that you need to select a country. This is good, internationalization is an issue. Then, after selecting Americas and North American English you’ll see the most confusing navigation. Mystery Meat navigation.

I was looking for the specs and found that I had to click on the phone model to get to the specs site. That’s intuitive!

Peaner Apple Abby

The above title is mostly silly, but it is the words that came out of Abby’s mouth as she asked for us to give her an applie with peanut butter on it. That is what I will be having as part of my lunch but when she heard us mention it she wanted to be part of the ‘apple action.’ And we figured out why she kept singing a song, “crazy, crazy, crazy.” It was the song Daisy (as in “Daisy, daisy give me your answer true”)! That song was on one of the VeggieTales CD’s.

Lotsa laughs with this little girl!

Five Iron vs. Banana phone

Nick Bradbury wrote about Banana phone and now I’m responding by saying: get the new and last Five Iron Frenzy album. There’s two CD’s (a live last concert album and their last official studio album). I’ve listened through the two and am actually finishing up their last song. Good stuff. But I won’t make any promises you won’t be walking around singing ‘cannonball.’

Hope others enjoy them as much as I do. I saw Five Iron (FIF or 5Fe) several times in concert in the last 8 years and loved every bit of it. I was actually in Denver the night of their last concert and couldn’t go (I was visiting family for a short weekend, no time to go). Bye Five Iron, we’ll miss you, but all is good – new bands have sprouted from this dead one.

Note: if you haven’t seen it, you should check out: “You have bad taste in music” [not responsible for content on this site]

Yeah Taxes!

I’m sure you’re thinking, “Randy, Taxes are behind us, April 15th was last month.” Which is true. In fact I remember because I was on the road to Colorado that day – we’ve been here for over a month now. However, we worked out a budget and some tax stuff today and all looks good. Now we’ll just need someone to go over it an make sure we’re not way off.

If there’s one thing that’s certain it is that there is more than one thing that is certain. And if the only constant is change, then how reliable is the statement that the only constant is change? When ET phoned home, was the phone bill as high as I’d expect – that’s some serious long distance. Enough of my tired non-sense.

We saw Van Helsing last night… and it was as dumb as the critics said as well as being as fun as the $54 million dollars it made the weekend before. Just because there was cheese involved doesn’t mean that it can’t be fun. You should go expecting a crazy fanciful movie. And when you leave the theater you’ll say, “I just watched a fun fanciful movie.” Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing surely looks like Wolverine in a few parts, and I’m sure that when the next X-Men movie comes out we’ll see a little Van Helsing in Wolverine. The special effects are fun more than anything else, and there’s something special about a real batman and a real set of bat women.