Month: November 2002

Somehow, my hiding under a rock for the past few months caused McDonald’s french fry recipe to slip by me undetected. What the hell were they thinking? I don’t go there for health food. I go there to eat fries. The best fries on the planet. The fries you can no longer get at McDonalds. Gah, the flavor is all gone. And to make matters worse, I tried a bite of Junior’s chicken nuggets tonight and THEY don’t taste the same anymore either. For goodness sake, what the hell are they thinking? It’s enough to make me never go back again. We’ll ignore them screwing up my burger (“Okay, do I need to say it in a foreign language? JUST KETCHUP!”). But if the fries don’t taste the same, what’s the point? I certainly won’t have cravings for them anymore, which in the grand scheme of things, is probably good.

But I’m still angry about it. Maybe they should have called CocaCola first to ask about that whole New Coke thing.

As a nine-year-old who watches a little too much of the Weather Channel told me this morning, tomorrow is going to be a “mixed bag”. Woo hoo! I hope it includes a lot of heat and wind! What? No? You mean ice and snow and rain? Well that’s not the kid of “mixed bag” I like.

Oh, and I’m going to give you ONE warning…if you get an email from paypal-ebay.com telling you you need to give over some financial info? It’s a scam. I don’t think the site is up anymore, but I’m warning you just the same. If my research last night is correct, it’s some college wanker who set up the domain about 3 weeks ago. “Somebody’s going to Ja-il.” I can’t wait to read about this in the news. I sent everything off to ebay as soon as I got it. The funny thing was looking up the email address the guy used to register the domain. He posted to a CGI programming group that he needed someone to write him some financial software and that “money is no object” or something like that. Didn’t it occur to him that he could be traced?

Here, while I’m getting some stuff done and can’t spend a lot of time coming up with the long-winded useful crap I normally share with you, I instead point you to this site: Anomalies Unlimited – the funny “peculiar” and the funny “haha”. Don’t blame me if you lose an hour or two just browsing.

I somehow ended up on the Alexa search site this morning, and I think it’s pretty cool. So cool, in fact, that I downloaded their search toolbar to my browser. Additionally so cool that they are owned by Amazon, and if you access them via my site or download the tool bar from the link I added on the right, you can automate the way you help the Big DumpTruck. The toolbar has an Amazon icon in the far right corner. Now if you use THAT to access Amazon, you’ll automatically be telling them I referred you. No need to come to this site first before you go there. Cool, huh? I think so. Here’s

a sample review page for THIS site. You have entered a review, haven’t you?

I don’t want to do a hard sell, but this is a great way to keep the Dump alive. All proceeds from the referral fees I own go right back to paying for hosting, and domain renewal (due in exactly three weeks. Uh oh.) Okay, that’s it for the commercial. I’ll just keep the link to the toolbar over on the right somewhere. IE users can grab it now, later or never. I’ll still love you.

Okay, there, you happy? Good.

p.s. This page is the number one result if you search for “David Blaine Streaming” on Google. I don’t ask, I just report. (I’m endlessly fascinated by being the number one result for anything on Google, especially if I assume I won’t even be on the first page.