Saddam Hussein Hanged
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Too much to link to, but here’s a springboard on CNN.How To Contact Amazon.com Customer Service
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I’ve had it, I lost it, I found it again. You may need it and since Amazon doesn’t make a big deal about it since they’re so very awesome, I am providing (for them) this information: Amazon Customer Service Number: (800) 201-7575 (HT: Common Grounds). Encourage others to do the same. Happy New Year.US Customer Service
Phone toll-free in the US and Canada: (800) 201-7575
Phone from outside the US and Canada: (206) 346-2992 or (206)-266-2992
Another direct line: (206) 266-2335
E-mail:
orders@amazon.com
resolution@amazon.com
charge-inquiries@amazon.com
Amazon’s rebate center: 1-866-348-2492
Amazon Corporate Accounts:1-866-486-2360
Snail mail to customer service
Amazon.com, Inc.
Customer Service
PO Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
Service for Amazon Sellers
877-251-0696
They also have special e-mail accounts for spoofing and abuse:
stop-spoofing@amazon.com
reports@amazon.com
Canadian Customer Service
Phone 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern time, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Pacific: (877)-586-3230
Corporate Offices, Seattle
(206) 622-2335
Which Universe would win?
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I’m putting up a few universes against each other. Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate or Galactica: who do you think would win and can you state why? I know I could list other universes but I won’t.Who Are They Charlie Brown?
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Nailing down the characters on the stage in A Charlie Brown Christmas is an act at ADHD in practice. Without further ado here is an identification of these unsual suspects.Firstly, lets’ begin by listing the characters that were in the special but not on stage.
Charlie Brown. The namesake of the cartoon who at this point was either about to be introduced as the play’s new director or was being ignored after a speech on how he expects things to be run or was fuming as the play continued applauding commercialism while ignoring the true meaning of Christmas.
Lucy. Who was at this point either about to introduce Charlie Brown as director or was ignoring him with forgotten scripts in hand or snapping her fingers to the tune. She loves Schroeder, is Linus’ sister and takes all of Charlies Brown money and mental health. She has five good reasons why people should listen to her: they usually are summed up by her fist.
Patty. Her disappearance on stage is inexplicable especially since she is obviously part of the group gathering for the play. Perhaps she was controlling the lights that would later focus on Linus as he explains the true meaning of Christmas. She’s also abusive to Charlie Brown and I’m happy that she eventually is never seen on stage again and another Patty becomes famous.
We’ve gotten this far with no complaints. Now, unto the characters on stage and in numerical order.
01. Pigpen. His cloud of dust is distinctive. Charlie Brown would point out that it was perhaps the dust of previous civilizations that gave the young man a distinguished air especially in light of playing the Innkeeper.
02. Schroeder. An expert on the toy piano, he leads the group in that unforgettable song which consists of a Piano, a Percussionist (doing maracas or the drums) and a bass—though no guitar. This begets a question: what exactly is Snoopy doing?
03. Freida. Assigned the role of Innkeeper’s wife and boasts about her naturally curly hair.
04. Either 3 or 4. I’ll explain later.
05. Violet. She’s the one who didn’t give Charlie Brown a Christmas Card—so nasty. She’s fairly abusive and calls him stupid and stuff like that which is unfortunate since I don’t like my son hearing stuff like that so that he doesn’t emulate it too early.
06. Shermy. Yeah, he’s doing something like the Frankenstein. I think people don’t expect much from poor ol’ Shermy since every year he is assigned the part of a shepherd.
07. Linus. He’s a genius with a security blanket that he takes with him everywhere. The only time he let it go was when he quoted the Nativity story and when he was swaddling the small branch of a tree.
08. Sally. She’s Charlie Brown’s sister and she is in love with Linus. She
09. Snoopy. This dog is The Man. He plays guitar, he dances, he flies a doghouse and hunts the Red Baron!
10. 5. He is the brother of 3 and 4 (they’re twins). The information is never divulged in the episode as well as his sisters names but we find out from the comic strip that his father hated how everyone was being labeled with a number in society so he named his kids after numbers not as a protest but as a sign of giving up.
I might as well link to it before MCF does.
11. 4 (or 3). The twin sister of 3 (or 4).
Links N’ Junk 18
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- iLife. Cisco claims ownership of the title “iPhone”. I guess Apple is going to do something annoying cute like iFone. iAnyShoe adapter—not just Nike. iBuzz (Adult produc) is about to get iSued by Apple.
- Consoles. PS4 anyone?
- DSL. Wireless Cards hitting record speeds especially after their wireless upgrade. (Mind you, this isn’t hopping onto a network, this is cellular technology offering broadband service)
- PC. How to build a pc? No problem: Tom’s Hardware is on it (this is Part 3, rest of the series linked to in the article)
- SciFi. Third SG series in the works (it was on my RSS but since MCF linked to it before me, I might as well give him a HT) Are you going to get the figurines? Also Heroes’ Peter is insane if he sees himself in spandex. And a Horrible sequel to the Lost Rhapsody.
- Celebs. Mary-Kate Olson bears a striking resemblance to Crazy Amy, the Bag Lady or to a Zombie Courtney Love.
- Blogspotting. Jerry has a seriously philosophical poll up. Wendy’s into Toilets (nice charcoals, btw!).
- Art. Scoboco saw Ron Mueck’s work up close—a show I really wanted to see. Also a couple of my Jedi Master Trainers have some sweet sites: Bill and Dennis (at least I think this site is his). Still have a heck of a time not saying “Professor”.
- Random Junk. How geeks dress their kids. Great Conan moment. Let the Charismatics Hit the floor. I think Curt sent this Breast Pump video (I may have also gotten it from Jenn). I think Jerry sent this history of the Middle East video. I don’t even know what to say about this video (HT: BHT).
- Christendom. Christians vs. Christ-Followers: I see their point but I think that like the Mac Ads, it’s overstating things and being kind of dumb about it. In other news, another evangelical (Paul Barnes) steps down.
BHT Meme
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I’m crossposting this at the Bible Archive. It’s a sort of Christianese meme by the Boar’s Head Tavern so most readers can feel free to ignore this post, respond to it (funny or not) with one sentence answers—doesn’t matter.- Baptism: Done upon profession of faith and it doesn’t do anything for your salvation.
- The Lord’s Supper: Only symbols done in remembrance (as often as possible) with no real presence of Christ in them or by them.
- Emerging Church: Go for it, folk and hopefully some entrenched thinking gets uprooted.
- Young Earth Creationism: I don’t know—there’s an ambiguity in the text and in empirical data that points to No but who knows what an omnipotent God can or can not do.
- Cessationism: I don’t know, there’s an ambiguity that leads me to think Yes but once again, if God decides to start it up again I doubt he’d ask me.
- Abraham Lincoln: Is “duck!” in bad taste?
- Gender Issues: Although they are equal they do each have certain roles and both men and women should be treated with respect.
- Inspiration of the Bible: Yes, in the original text.
- Gay Marriage: I really don’t know because I think it’s wrong for them not to get those tax breaks and what not that other folk get and because Society kind of already destroyed the definition of marriage but yet as a Christian I also have to take a stand against that, lying, theft, murder, etc—definitely in the Church no.
- Education (Home, Public, Private, None): I am in favor of it. Heh.
- Who is TR on the BHT? I don’t have a clue since I don’t really read their names.
- Sanctification: Upon justification, positionally sanctified but going through life we must practically sanctify ourselves.
- BHT Comments: Keep them closed but someone has to answer emails when I write in!
Can You Name Them All?
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Note, Charlie Brown is NOT in this picture:
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From our November Denver issue:
Humor Scale
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the Cutting Edge
(52% dark, 42% spontaneous, 21% vulgar)
CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARK
Your humor’s mostly innocent and off-the-cuff, but somehow there’s something slightly menacing about you. Part of your humor is making people a little uncomfortable, even if the things you say aren’t themselves confrontational. You probably have a very dry delivery, or are seriously over-the-top.
Your type is the most likely to appreciate a good insult and/or broken bone and/or very very fat person dancing.
PEOPLE LIKE YOU: David Letterman - John Belushi
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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Links N’ Junk 17
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- Videos. Darrell has an awesome video that makes the PS3 seem like an expensively bad choice. Jerry links to this fantastic Diary of a Paper Model
- Blogspotting. I wish I got a chance to go to this show that scoboco went to. MCF put an honest review of the Bible Archive a bit ago which is a step towards something I’m planning.
- Philosophy. Jeremy (I’ve linked to it here and on the Archive before) has a great series on Theories of Knowledge and Reality. He’s recently been blogging on the explanation for evil.
- Bible. Study the Bible with Lingamish. I’m adding the link to the Archive’s link section but I thought some of you may be interested on this end.
- Sci-fi. The hard and fast 33% rule and No Peter Jackson Hobbit. (HT: SFSignal)
- McPheever. Rickey has some photos and a leaked track from her Katharine McPhee’s new album.
- Computers. Best video cards 2006.
- iLife. Apple sees a future in iRadio? We shall see…
- TV. Studio 60—honestly, it’s funny but I can’t decide on something. It manages to bash Christians (and Christianity) in just about every episode but then has characters that are openly Christian portrayed in a positive light.
- Scandal. Michael Richards flips out on stage (or download it) then apologizes (albeit in a bad outlet). Jeremy makes some good responses and links to a thought provoking post. David links to some excellent thoughts on Ted Haggard (old news, I know) who addresses Christian responses. Andy Dick goes the way of the Kramer bird.
