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Amazon Weirdness

Sometimes poking around on line I run into something that makes me chuckle or is just off and I grab it for later. Amazon makes me chuckle or is off often enough to get its own post.

Amazon is notorious for hounding people to buy more of things that are obviously one-off purchases – refrigerators, toilet seats, & the like. Their “AI” is as dumb as a box of rocks and not just for recommendations.

All I ordered was cat food.

I like my color film developer to be sheer and warm.

Now we know where Clippy found work. I was afraid to click the suggestion link.

This is a little perplexing. I was writing the review pre-coffee but it’s not that bad. Is “got hard” objectionable? Is “COVID” just a blanket trigger to lazily avoid misinformation? No idea.

Carefully reviewing, riiight. Rejected!

Frequently, the best parts are reviews that do make it through the dumb-bots.

I don’t even remember what this was reviewing.

My favorite Q&A.

We won’t end because AI became self-aware and wiped us out. We’ll end because “thermos of noodles for lunch” was a pattern match for “thermonuclear launch”.

The best 404 message ever

The video is about 2:40 long.

I got this message at http://cdegroot.com/photo/yashica/
I’d been to the site before but apparently it’s being worked on. I wanted to save the message in case it goes away. I grabbed part of the screen so the video is probably an odd size.

2020

For a lot of people, this pretty well sums up 2020.

Random Post 03 August 2020

Optimist vs Pessimist

The light through the wine glass looks like a disgruntled alien.

Photojournalism is exhausting work.

A bold fashion statement.

Hehe, my phone got so baked on 4/20 it got the time backwards.

On a recycling bin at the transfer station.

I buy unrelated stuff that would look odd together but “frequently”?

It’s just a battery. Honest!

Sometimes I watch Youtube videos on a channel called “The 8-Bit Guy”. I originally saw one on restoring an Osborne 1 “portable” computer. When I started at Computerland going on two score years ago, they’d been without a service department guy for a while. I walked in to a stack of Osbornes needing repair and learned fast. Any way it caught my eye.

I watched a video on rebuilding the battery pack in an old Apple laptop. Afterward, what happened was so bizarre, I had to comment on the video:

“You can’t make this up. Our smart TV asked me to rate this video with this dialog:

I put a link to the photo in the Youtube comment. I don’t think you can add attachments to comments.

I’m in the US, don’t log in on the TV, and I’ve never been asked to rate a video before. I think Youtube’s algorithm may have thought the batteries were, um, something else. At the risk of getting agency attention, I gave it 5 stars. Great content BTW.”

If anyone needs me, I’ll be at a black site somewhere.

Random Post for 17 September 2019

This may be my favorite comment on the 52 Cameras YouTube channel

Red eye reduction on wedding pictures made BORG BRIDE!

I think the generator was spewing diesel fumes into the building again when I made this

Thanka. Thanka verra mush.

eeg

I love this. Especially because a rock is a bud and a microscope is a bong

Inspired by: https://imgur.com/gallery/RZqNrSQ
The cats were driving M nuts. She wrote “I’m tired of their shenanigans. They think it’s my duty to entertain them”. Auto-correct jumped in and changed it to “Duty Town Terrain”.

Album Cover game (yeah, I misspelled shenanigans)

Random Post for 29 May 2019

When I left the job in Los Alamos, I sent myself a bunch of emails. The digital equivalent of cleaning out your desk I guess.

Remember when Spaghetti Cat was the big thing?

Sticky note portrait by M

Zombies and cats just naturally go together

Remember when Sweet Brown and “Ain’t nobody got time for dat!” was the big thing?

I took it in a different direction

My friend emailed and the bobcat picture is from October 9, 2016.

Visitor at my friend’s house in Santa Fe

Going waaay back, remember the Partnership for a Drug Free America PSAs?

But try to find the Grape-Nuts commercial where Euell Gibbons asks, “Ever eat a pine tree?”.

Random post for 11 July 2018

You ever look at some of the spam that gets caught by email filters? Sometimes there are lengthy paragraphs of text that looks like they were scraped from random emails, texts, and web sites. Some of it is tiny, like this one, and some is white text on a white background that goes on and on.