May 8, 2006 at 6:58 pm · Filed under Internet
Sometime last December, my buddy Sean turned me on to a cool little website called last.fm. I thought it was a cool little app that let me listen to free music and altered its playlist to match my personal taste. I listened to it for a few days until my attention began to wain and ultimately I forgot that I ever signed up.
Cut to Keith 3 months later. Here I was minding my own business when Sean said “I haven’t listened to anything other than the Red Hot Chili Peppers this month.” I looked over at his screen and there it was - Valhalla! Statistics tracking songs played, when they were played, which were his favorites listed and ordered by popularity. The stunning conclusion that my musical choices for that last 3 months were available online crashed home with the thunderous roar of all Earth’s petro-chemicals simultaniously igniting.
If you are anything at all like me you will instantly understand how amazing this is. If not: I probably don’t really care as we have very little in common so even social niceties would be awkward; let alone attempts at friendship.
You will now note my new “This weeks most popular” to the right ->.
Dear Last.fm,
I love you.
Sincerely,
Ironkeith
May 1, 2006 at 3:39 pm · Filed under General
So I’m lazy; sue me. It’s not that I haven’t felt like writing, or that I haven’t had things to say; I have, I’m just too lazy to say them. So what occurrence was so epic, so life altering, that it was able to dispel my laziness and awaken the inner blogger? I know that you’re sitting on the edge of you seat, waiting with baited breathe.
Yes, that’s right, an ad for enemas right there in my innocuous little messenger window. There I was, minding my own business – trying to use the word “Gursky” as many times as I could in a sentence – when out of the blue it caught my eye.
Seriously, who are they targeting with that advertisement. Is your typical 13 year old girl in need of some serious disempaction? I can only assume that they are reaching out to your typical “power gamer” who’s just wrapping up a 72 hour WoW dungeon crawl and has ate nothing but bananas, peanut butter, and cheese for the last 5 days.
Admittedly there must be a few of those people out there, but how much bang are they getting for their buck over there at pharmadirect.ca? It can’t be cheap to pimp your ad to the hundreds of thousands of people out there on MSN Messenger; perhaps they’re banking on the curiosity of the web savvy.
13yrowldGRRRL99938: OMG LOL ROFL ur hilaireus
surfrDude3L337: Let’s go get Fleet enemas.
13yrowldGRRRL99938: Done.
