The answer is....Light Blue, Dark Blue and Blue!
The other answer is Vanilla Ice Cream, the building block upon which all ice creams treats are made.
The next answer is Snow.
There ya go.
The questions are obvious: favorite three colors, favorite food, favorite weather.
The answers tell us all we need to know about you. Don't they. Now blog us your answers by clicking on the comments below.
These guys could have been subtitled "The Wookies". Hahahahaha. But seriously, I loved BTO. They were IT in the early and mid 70s man. This tune was one of my favorites back then in, oh, about seventh grade. By the way....couldn't they fit right into that commercial that runs on tv all the time?...."Mom says boys gotta go!"
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Park, Peace and Parking
THESE DAYS
Monday, September 21, is the International Day of Peace. Do something peaceful on Monday to show your Ghandi-like qualities to celebrate this one day of the year where peace reigns. —One day!— Leave the other 364 days alone. They are NOT meant to be peaceful in any sort of international way. Okay? ....But they could be peaceful in a county, state or municipal sort of way, couldn't they??
Tuesday, September 22, besides being the Autumnal Equinox, is international car-free day (not carefree day) CAR-FREE, as in, don't drive day. I have no graphic for this but we can use our imaginations here. Imagine if you will, all the roads on the planet empty for one day! That would be the day a film crew should go out and film a sci-fi movie! But you'd have to equally imagine all the hotels, gas stations, mall parking lots, rest-stops and truck-stops jammed with autos and trucks. There'd be no room to park anywhere if all cars pulled off the roads.
NATURE
Here's what the Sierra Club is saying....
We're on the edges of our camp chairs in anticipation of the new Ken Burns documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea." Friends of the Sierra Club have organized over 750 house parties around the country on or around September 20, where they'll screen a special sneak-preview DVD about the series and share national park experiences.
Monday, September 21, is the International Day of Peace. Do something peaceful on Monday to show your Ghandi-like qualities to celebrate this one day of the year where peace reigns. —One day!— Leave the other 364 days alone. They are NOT meant to be peaceful in any sort of international way. Okay? ....But they could be peaceful in a county, state or municipal sort of way, couldn't they??
Tuesday, September 22, besides being the Autumnal Equinox, is international car-free day (not carefree day) CAR-FREE, as in, don't drive day. I have no graphic for this but we can use our imaginations here. Imagine if you will, all the roads on the planet empty for one day! That would be the day a film crew should go out and film a sci-fi movie! But you'd have to equally imagine all the hotels, gas stations, mall parking lots, rest-stops and truck-stops jammed with autos and trucks. There'd be no room to park anywhere if all cars pulled off the roads.
NATURE
Here's what the Sierra Club is saying....
We're on the edges of our camp chairs in anticipation of the new Ken Burns documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea." Friends of the Sierra Club have organized over 750 house parties around the country on or around September 20, where they'll screen a special sneak-preview DVD about the series and share national park experiences.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Spam-bam
Okay! Cash Cab is at commercial so listen up. After chatting in recent weeks with bloggers H and P about web-related junk and issues we decided that we get way, way too much spam. You know spam. It's the junk emails we all get.
But what we wondered was, "how much junk email do we really get?"
This is going to be highly scientific because as you know the milkshake is all about science. I began to analyze my email to see what sort of spam I'm getting and from whom.
Here's what I'm seeing:
Borders, Apple, several credit card companies, Sierra Club, Yahoo, Media Bistro, Dick's Sporting Goods and Amazon seem to lead my list of "constant spammers". These are my self-titled Star Trekkers. Called because they can 'beam aboard' my email anytime they want.
There are other culprits as well however most of those (I'l spare the names) are because I have stayed at a hotel chain, subscribed to a publication, joined a club, bought something at a store or simply failed to unclick a box that had one of those pre-checked "send me your literature" lines at the bottom of something.
How much spam are we getting as a percent of email.
To quantify you simply do the math. But to qualify it you have to subtract the stuff you've probably brought on yourself (such as the catalogues and magazines ala list rentals that get your name because you made a purchase). I don't think we can include this stuff because you want to eyeball them even if you toss them most of the time. You want to 'stay in the loop' on these babies since you might need a coupon or want to jump on a seasonal sale or‚ especially in the case of snail-mail you might just be fed up with getting bill after bill and want a diversion in your pile of mail and welcome an occasional circular (Hello Victoria's Secret!) .... insert sly little snicker here...
Let's say I get 20 emails over a weekend. It looks like 15 are junk, but wait, 6 of those I actually open and read because of the above-mentioned reasons. So really 9 of the 20 are totally flushable: I don't want to invest in gold mines; I don't want to host a Nigerian prince who needs to dump his fortune; I don't want to 'stay hard' for four hours (christ! I ain't superman!); I don't want to join a book club anytime soon; I'm not needing to fly one-way to Topeka, Toledo or Tuscanny on the fourth Thursday of never; and I don't want a free supply of a year's worth of sugar pills laced with a derivative from the root of the magical Ginsing plant.
During the week I probably get 15 emails per day. I'd say I'm running at about 6 out-and-out junkers per day.
To keep the math easy, if I receive, on average, around 100 emails per week, I'm probably seeing, truly, about 40 percent junk emails of the type you'd just delete without bothering to open.
These results are probably not too unusual for most of us. What do you think?
Have you received some unusual spam? Do you have some names of companies in heavy rotation you'd like to add to the list? Blog and let us know. Click on the word 'Comments' below and tell us.
But what we wondered was, "how much junk email do we really get?"
This is going to be highly scientific because as you know the milkshake is all about science. I began to analyze my email to see what sort of spam I'm getting and from whom.
Here's what I'm seeing:
Borders, Apple, several credit card companies, Sierra Club, Yahoo, Media Bistro, Dick's Sporting Goods and Amazon seem to lead my list of "constant spammers". These are my self-titled Star Trekkers. Called because they can 'beam aboard' my email anytime they want.
There are other culprits as well however most of those (I'l spare the names) are because I have stayed at a hotel chain, subscribed to a publication, joined a club, bought something at a store or simply failed to unclick a box that had one of those pre-checked "send me your literature" lines at the bottom of something.
How much spam are we getting as a percent of email.
To quantify you simply do the math. But to qualify it you have to subtract the stuff you've probably brought on yourself (such as the catalogues and magazines ala list rentals that get your name because you made a purchase). I don't think we can include this stuff because you want to eyeball them even if you toss them most of the time. You want to 'stay in the loop' on these babies since you might need a coupon or want to jump on a seasonal sale or‚ especially in the case of snail-mail you might just be fed up with getting bill after bill and want a diversion in your pile of mail and welcome an occasional circular (Hello Victoria's Secret!) .... insert sly little snicker here...
Let's say I get 20 emails over a weekend. It looks like 15 are junk, but wait, 6 of those I actually open and read because of the above-mentioned reasons. So really 9 of the 20 are totally flushable: I don't want to invest in gold mines; I don't want to host a Nigerian prince who needs to dump his fortune; I don't want to 'stay hard' for four hours (christ! I ain't superman!); I don't want to join a book club anytime soon; I'm not needing to fly one-way to Topeka, Toledo or Tuscanny on the fourth Thursday of never; and I don't want a free supply of a year's worth of sugar pills laced with a derivative from the root of the magical Ginsing plant.
During the week I probably get 15 emails per day. I'd say I'm running at about 6 out-and-out junkers per day.
To keep the math easy, if I receive, on average, around 100 emails per week, I'm probably seeing, truly, about 40 percent junk emails of the type you'd just delete without bothering to open.
These results are probably not too unusual for most of us. What do you think?
Have you received some unusual spam? Do you have some names of companies in heavy rotation you'd like to add to the list? Blog and let us know. Click on the word 'Comments' below and tell us.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Make it Vin
An interesting number is the number 7. It is associated with luck and it is the number in a movie, as shown below.
"We deal in lead..."
"We deal in lead..."
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Opine To The Stars
September here you are. How did you arrive so quickly? You are bringing an earlier sunset. You are chilly in the a.m. Damn you!
In French it's: Septembre (The spelling looks like a spanish cologne.)
In Italian it's: Settembre (They just skipped the 'p' totally. The nerve.)
Now for something different.... What's with the song 'pick up the pieces"? What pieces do they mean and why the hell do they have to pick them up? Did they drop these 'pieces'? Or did the item they drop break? And did these people remember to sweep up the little slivers, you know, the ones you never see but feel when you get them in your foot? Oh and by the way, in the song, do they ever sing the words? Someone blog and sort all of this out.
I know what you are saying right now...."Oh god the randomness! The randomness of it all!! I can't take much more!!!"
What about this....it's the latest image of Mars showing gullied crater walls. It is courtesy of my friends at NASA/JPL. (They aren't really my friends, I think so, but they hang up whenever I call to give them notes about their so-called 'scientific missions'. Hah! Ingrates!)
In French it's: Septembre (The spelling looks like a spanish cologne.)
In Italian it's: Settembre (They just skipped the 'p' totally. The nerve.)
Now for something different.... What's with the song 'pick up the pieces"? What pieces do they mean and why the hell do they have to pick them up? Did they drop these 'pieces'? Or did the item they drop break? And did these people remember to sweep up the little slivers, you know, the ones you never see but feel when you get them in your foot? Oh and by the way, in the song, do they ever sing the words? Someone blog and sort all of this out.
I know what you are saying right now...."Oh god the randomness! The randomness of it all!! I can't take much more!!!"
What about this....it's the latest image of Mars showing gullied crater walls. It is courtesy of my friends at NASA/JPL. (They aren't really my friends, I think so, but they hang up whenever I call to give them notes about their so-called 'scientific missions'. Hah! Ingrates!)
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