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Question: How many pieces of software do you buy per month, on average?

My Answer: I buy about three pieces of software per month, be they some $5 shareware or some $999 video editing software (at upgrade price, of course!).

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I don't care for beer much, but I bet that the jet-powered beer cooler could easily be adapted to suit my Coca-Cola cravings…

Every month (since February) I post my site's referral search terms (not what people search for on my site). It's an interesting peek that illustrates "how people are finding me." Here's August's…

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Monday night I got bad news: Jim was scheduled to work on Tuesday. That would have put our plans to go fishin' on hold for another week, and figuring the trip was cancelled, I stayed up way past my bed time to get some work done. I woke up at 7:30 (damn sunrise!) and puttered around the apartment. Jim called at 9 to say "we're goin' fishin' after all!" I got directions to Key Largo and quickly assembled everything I would need.

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Question: If you could change one thing about your city, town, or neighborhood, what would you change?

My Answer: I would make the average age of its residents 23. I would make them all female. I would make them all attractive and intelligent. I would make them all single and desperately in need of some geek love. These questions get easier every day!

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Question: What is the oddest thing you've ever done in the snow?

My Answer: One time, in early March, I just couldn't get the golf bug out of my system. In two and sometimes three feet of snow (and sometimes just a wee bit of grass), I headed up to my favorite course and played a full eighteen holes. My toes hurt, my hands hurt, my nose hurt. Damn was it great!

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Question: What is the most you've ever spent on eBay for a single purchase?

My Answer: $8. I use eBay to sell things, but very rarely do I buy anything.

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Question: What is the worst word you can think of for a body part (male or female)?

My Answer: I've never really liked the four-letter "c" word (as it pertains to a woman's sensitive region). In fact, it's my least favorite word.

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In light of recent comments about Madonna and Britney's lame publicity stunt, I present to you two pieces of evidence to support my position that camel toes are indeed funny stuff…

Edit (May 31, 2011): As these links no longer go to their original sites, I've removed them. And Jamie has likely matured since this post in 2003, as have I. Camel toes are still kind of funny.

So, Blogshares is now officially passé, is it not?

Uniting generations, the MTV Video Music Awards!

No further comments necessary.

P.S. Okay, maybe one, and that comment is "man, wicked camel toe!" 😀

Sometimes you wish people wouldn't buy your software, because then you wouldn't have to put up with bullshit like this:

I need this thing sent out today without question. If you cant pick up the phone and call me at an 800 number, I'm going to dispute the charges on the credit card and go with someone who will give me results. I've got my boss breathing down my neck on this and after reviewing different mail extractors on the net, you seem to have been the best one. I can't get a phone call from you? Please call me, it will only take a few minutes.

This is in response to over an hour of both on-the-phone and via-email tech support, almost all of which has not covered problems with our software, but the customer's inability to use Excel or other basic things.

I don't respond well to being threatened, I couldn't care less about his deadline, and for our cut of $59 I'm inclined to just tell him to go screw himself. We provide outstanding support, and to threaten us with a chargeback is ridiculous and childish.

In the end, gee, we'll suck it up and provide great service, as we always do. But dammit, sometimes a single customer can really just put a stain on the whole experience, I tell ya. >:-o

Question: What is your favorite candle scent?

My Answer: I used to say vanilla, but lately I'm quite taken by a "grape" scent from Yankee Candle. It reminds me of the place I used to live in PA.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Uhmmmm…

Saut Chin, 46, was fed up with physical abuse from her husband when she grabbed his testicles until he passed out in the incident Tuesday, the Rasmei Kampuchea (Light of Cambodia) newspaper reported. … The exact cause of Ouch Yan's death was not known.

Funny that the guy's name is "Ouch," don't'cha think?

P.S. I hope the woman gets off light. Self-defense. There are very very few things that justify doing anything to a man's nuts, but beating your wife is one of them.

Just to overrule anyone's misconceptions regarding fishing reels being "simple" (as was recently explained to me by someone whose closest encounter with fishing was taking a bath with an ocean-themed shower curtain), I present this:

That's the exploded view of my new Daiwa Capricorn 2500. Yup.