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Yeesh, sorry to bother you Google
8:12 pm | January 12, 2011

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My dad got a piece of mail about Google Tags, and I had some questions.  The brochure they sent had a phone number, so I decided to call.  The first thing I wanted to know was if the businesses at his outlet mall could somehow share a tag, since they’re all at the same address.

She spent about 45 seconds telling me why this couldn’t possibly happen.  I listened to her whole spiel, then in what I thought was a friendly tone, said “Thanks, that answers my question.”  I had a few other questions I was going to ask, but she responded to this by sarcastically saying “ooooooooKAY!” and proceeded to hang up on me.

I should probably be offended, but I found it hilarious.  It’s one thing to be rude to angry or otherwise difficult customers, but someone who’s genuinely interested in purchasing your product?  That’s a sales tactic I had never considered.

Testing a WordPress Theme
10:01 pm | January 11, 2011

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I’m going to be helping Alex with his brewery’s website.  I’m planning on using the Beer theme by Jeremy Mosely as a framework.

Dexter Season 5
3:07 am | January 10, 2011

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I just finished this today, and all I can think is that the show would’ve been much better if it had just ended with Season 4.

Dexter, Breaking Bad, and Deadwood are some of my favorite shows that share the same major flaw: one character who is so crappy that they damn near kill the show for me.  In Breaking Bad, it’s Jesse.  In Deadwood, it’s Calamity Jane.

In Dexter, it has always been Deb.  I hated Deb so much that I started to hate other characters based on the amount of screen time they shared with her.  And until Season 5, I was able to blame everything I hated about the show on her.

And as much as I’d like to complain about the specific things I didn’t like about Season 5, that’s not the point of this post.  The point of this post is that I knew Season 5 was going to suck, but I watched it anyway.

Why would I do this to myself?  Why would I watch Lost all the way through?  Why do I keep drinking coffee?

If I were a better writer, I think these questions would be the beginning of the post, rather than the end, but I think I’ve connected the dots I wanted to connect.