This is the best thing of the day
I will sing this until somebody comes up with something better. So, probably forever.
I will sing this until somebody comes up with something better. So, probably forever.
Where have we been? Who cares. Tornado response, busy life, blah and a few more blahs.
This is the best typo of the day from writer Susan Andersen’s blog. Enjoy.
Hey, all.
I wanted to give you all a head’s up on a killer typo in my digital edition of Baby, I’m Yours and apologize for page 293, where it says:
He stiffened for a moment but then she felt his muscles loosen as he shitted on the ground.
Shifted–he SHIFTED! God, I am so appalled, not to mention horrified that anyone would think that’s what I wrote. I’d really appreciate it if you would forward this to your romance reading friends just in case they bought the ebook, which is on sale for $2.99 at the moment so has likely been selling even better than usual (trust me, usually that’s a good thing). Please assure them that I’m on it and it will be fixed asap.
Meanwhile, happy reading. I wish for you typo free books.
~ Susan
As always, I’d love it if you’d join me on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/SusanAndersenFanPage
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One week, just a few of the many stories that bring us closer.
Hussey and Lobb fall into one of those Big Discussions Mark loves and Rand immediately regrets: Rand wonders why he hasn’t developed much spirituality compared to Mark and shares a few stories about how Sunday school didn’t work for him in 1969, while Mark pulls out some church stories that are WAY more exciting. It’s typical Hussey vs Lobb that ends with Mark feeling inspired, Rand gritting his teeth and both of them agreeing that everybody should be free to believe whatever they like.
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FauxPop FauxCast EP12
Hussey and Lobb fall into one of those Big Discussions Mark loves and Rand immediately regrets: Rand wonders why he hasn’t developed much spirituality compared to Mark and shares a few stories about how Sunday school didn’t work for him in 1969, while Mark pulls out some church stories that are WAY more exciting. It’s typical Hussey vs Lobb that ends with Mark feeling inspired, Rand gritting his teeth and both of them agreeing that everybody should be free to believe whatever they like.
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Randall Lobb: @thelabcoatguy
Mark Hussey: @hustletalk
FauxTech EP04
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Anthony, Rand and Mark manage not to talk about Apple as they start off looking for the value of blogging and end up trying to figure out the most appealing business model for new media in a world where content is king. Or should be…
Send us your tech questions via email ( content@fauxpop.tv ) or send us an audio or video question and we will put it on the show and do our best to answer.
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Mark Hussey: @hustletalk
Anthony, Rand and Mark manage not to talk about Apple as they start off looking for the value of blogging and end up trying to figure out the most appealing business model for new media in a world where content is king. Or should be…
Send us your tech questions via email ( content@fauxpop.tv ) or send us an audio or video question and we will put it on the show and do our best to answer.
Follow us on Twitter: @FauxPopTV
Randall Lobb: @thelabcoatguy
Anthony Wilkinson: @AdubTech
Mark Hussey: @hustletalk
Mark and Rand go deep in order to figure out how they got to be this way. What way? Listen and find out.
I’m like that abused boyfriend who just can’t keep away.
You know the one – no matter how mean you get, no matter how hard you hit, he can’t stop himself from coming back and begging for more.
Since the very first podcasts hit the netwaves (I think I just made up an awesome term here…), we’ve been bent on doing it right, and now, we don’t have any other choice. The Hustler rigged his office for it, and now we’ve got that perfect setup, right down to the cup of tea.
So, if there’s anyone out there who enjoys the storytelling of a couple of shaggy old bastards who’ve been around and back a few times, drop us a line at hussey@fauxpop.tv or lobb@fauxpop.tv, or throw a comment on here and let us know what you want to hear about.
rl
PS it will ALL be true. All the time.
Me and my TomTom
I hadn’t heard of TomTom until I moved to Germany in 2006.
We landed at Frankfurt, eyes sandy from sitting up all night in discomfort (wishing I could fall asleep and dream of flying first class), having loaded our exhausted kids and the bulging suitcases that contained our complete possessions for one year living in a village just outside of Dusseldorf.
As I drove the rental up the Autobahn with enough excitement to keep me safely awake, I realized that driving here was not going to be anything like driving back home.
The area we lived in has 30 million people, and the freeways, off-ramps, secondary roads, side roads, and every other kind of concretized twist and turn to keep those people all moving at once.
After two months of struggling to find anything every time we left the house, and after a road trip across the Chunnel to England and back – a land where only the M roads are straight – my wife and I realized we HAD to have a nav unit.
And everyone in this part of Germany used a TomTom.
I can say with certainty that getting a TomTom saved my life, because I would have gone insane and hurled myself from something if I had continued struggling to use my innate sense of direction.
I used our TomTom all through Western Europe, driving into the centre of Paris five times without fear, negotiating Rome, Florence and Naples, the Swiss Alps and Amsterdam, even listening to our beloved British female voice as she insisted that we continue along the literal goat path that took us from Gualdo Tadino to Assisi because it was road, damnit!
When we moved back, I packed that thing away like it was the Holy Grail, and, after buying the North American maps, have used it to drive all over Toronto, Boston, New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and the high deserts, deep forests and tractless wastelands in, around, on the way to and between all of these places.
And so, when I learned that I would be reviewing the newest TomTom ONE n14644 and the TomTom iPhone app, I knew that I would be completely and utterly biased.
I think these are the best nav units for the average driver.
The display is large and bright, with a really easy and attractive interface, which is crucial for that quick glance whether you’re picking a path through the winding craziness of a medieval city packed with angry drivers or trying to find Serendipity on the upper East Side of Manhattan for a frozen hot chocolate. I always put my screen on Night display, which is cool and blue and easy to look at it.
The speaker in the back is good and loud, and the variety of voices is entertaining in and of itself. We tried out the Star Wars and Merry Melodies voice packs (these are sold separately) and they were fun, but I find myself coming back to Jane, my unflappable British co-pilot.
Having that voice call out where you are and when you need to turn is such a stress reliever, it’s hard to believe and going back to driving in a new area (especially a metropolitan area) is simple unacceptable without that.
TomTom has some really nice value ads as well, traffic monitoring and reporting to steer you away from trouble spots, and although this wasn’t working all that great in 2006 for whatever reason, it is much more effective now. I also really like the routing technology that allows the driver to make some decisions about routing based on a myriad of factors – your speed, rush hour, the number of traffic lights and so on. Roadside assistance through one catch-all phone number may also be a benefit for those who aren’t already members of CAA or whatever. Lane guidance is another great add-on in a big city, where the complexity of lane selection before an off-ramp is particularly complex and where a misstep can have truly annoying circumstances.
Nothing I’ve seen in the latest TomTom offerings have done anything but confirm what I have already known about this company’s great nav tools. If you’re a driver and you’re going off into the great unknown (at least to you), then you need one. Period.
As 90% of the free world knows, I do not drink alcohol.
As a result, I do not drive under the influence of alcohol. Nor do I endorse such a policy.
My feeling is that drunk drivers need to be seriously punished.
However, my antipathy for drunk drivers doesn’t stop me from laughing at one aspect of this news story:
Watch it here.
This loser wasn’t just driving drunk at one in the afternoon with her four year old child in a car seat, and she didn’t just throw her vodka bottle out the window onto the courthouse parking lot one block from the police station. She also gave the world the best line I’ve heard in day when the cop pulled her over and got her out of the car.
But before you read it, think about what she didn’t say. She didn’t say that she was sorry, or try to make some dumbass excuse, she didn’t try to weasel out of it or break down and admit that she needs help or anything like that. Nope. All she said was this:
“I pooped my pants. I ate too much corn.”
I can’t even tell you how exciting this is.
As if you didn’t know that thelabcoatguy worked roll patrol at a kid. And spun the wax.
Believe it.
Learn it.
Live it.
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