Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Damn 206-415

August 4th, 2005 by jason

Is anyone else as annoyed/surprised as me about the fact that my blog has basically been taken over by a discussion (if you could call it that?) of this 206-415-xxxx thing? The main post about me being annoyed/confused by the phone call currently has over 45 comments! What sucks, though, is that most of these [...]

Dell Sucks

July 13th, 2005 by jason

In November 2004 I purchased a new notebook computer. I had always used desktop computers in the past, but figured that it was time to get a nice, portable computer. I didn’t even contemplate where to get the computer — I immediately went to the Dell site and bought a Dell Inspiron 1150 (note the [...]

DW-uhhhh

June 28th, 2005 by jason

I learned last night while watching The West Wing that there are only three words in the English language that being with DW: dwindle, dwarf, and dwell (and, of course, their variations). Inspired by this knowledge, I created the following poem: The dwindling dwarf dwells Dwindle, dwelling dwarf The dwarf dwindled in the dwelling Dwarves [...]

206-415: Revisited

June 21st, 2005 by jason

For those not familiar with my strange and creepy, though potentially funny in certain circumstances, telephone nightmare, things have started up again. In the last 12 hours I have two received calls from people claiming that I called them. Well, I didn’t. Someone with a 415 number did, not my 412 number. I did some [...]

206-415-xxxx

June 9th, 2005 by jason

In case anyone wonders, my phone number is 206-412-xxxx (yes, I am intentionally x’ing it out). Apparently there is someone with the phone number 206-415-xxxx that calls a lot of people… and doesn’t leave messages (i.e. the number shows up on people’s caller IDs). So for the past few weeks I’ve been getting random phone [...]