Just Interesting

Yabba-Dabba Do! The Flintstones Turns 50 Tomorrow

As I noted at the Search Engine Roundtable, Google has a Flintstones logo for September 30th, tomorrow (but not today in New Zealand). Tomorrow is The Flintstones 50th Birthday. A show I personally grew up watching… Here is the Google logo: How great is it? I am offline tomorrow and the next for a Jewish

Shopping

I Hate Debit Rebate Cards

I absolutely hate rebate offers where you get pre-paid debit cards. As some of you know, I got a free Microcell and $20, which includes a $100 promotion card from AT&T for the Microcell rebate. Today, I got the rebate card. They say businesses offer rebates because most people forget to fill them out. I

Business

I’ll Likely Leave American Express Due To Continental Changes

On Wednesday, I received an email from Continental Airlines, soon to be United Airlines, that in about a year, the deal they have with American Express will no longer be in effect. They said: Effective Oct. 1, 2011, Continental Airlines will no longer participate in the American Express Membership Rewards and Airport Club Access programs.

Religion

Search Is Great

I write about search a lot. But as a consumer of search, I often don’t appreciate it as I should. Last night, I was really happy. The other day I picked up a lulav and esrog for the Sukkots holiday that begins tonight. Last night, I wanted to tie the lulav holder to the lulav.

Religion

Built My Sukkah, Ready For Succos

Last year was the first year I built my own Sukkah. A Sukkah is a temporary home designed specifically to be used during the Jewish holiday of Succos. I’ve explained it in the past, if you don’t know what these things are, check out Wikipedia or Google or Bing or Cuil (oh, Cuil is offline).

Religion

Yom Kippur: Wishing Easy Fast & Asking For Forgiveness

Tonight is Yom Kippur, one of the more holy Jewish holidays. For more info on it, read wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur. In any event, I wanted to wish all those fasting a easy fast and ask them for forgiveness if I have done anything to upset you in any way. I even posted a special white Yom Kippur

Motor Vehicle

Exhaust

I was behind this car, if you call it that, this morning. Just look at the exhaust. It looked like a huge power plant of some sorts… Note: The car was sitting at a red light. It was not revving the engine or anything:

Daily Grind

My 5.9 Seconds On NBC’s Nightly News With Brian Williams

As many of you know, I was hoping to be on NBC Wednesday night at 6:30pm (EST). The show was the Nightly News with Brian Williams. I drove to NBC’s headquarters in NYC and they interviewed me for about 20 minutes on Google. I was actually being interviewed by someone in California, so I had

Religion

Happy Rosh Hashanah!

Going offline soon till Saturday night. You know the rules… No breaking news, no writing about SEO, no talking about anything I would find interesting during the next three days. I want my RSS reader to show 1 item unread, that would be this item. Got it? Happy & Healthy to all those celebrating!