17. November, 2002 - Lazy Sunday
- Thanks to Dave Winer for linking to my pictures of icicles yesterday. And welcome to the new readers.
- Late last night, or early this morning, depending on how you look at it (about quarter to 3am), I got a strange phone call on my cell-phone (hiptop). Some guy who seemed to think I was answering his girlfriend's phone, or so he said. Okay, I figure it's a wrong number and that'll be the end of it. But about a minute after hanging up the cell-phone, the same guy calls my home phone (same phone number on the caller-ID on both - I checked). Now the thing of it is, I've given that cell-phone number to a very small number of people since I got it a little over a month ago. Most are pretty close friends, and I don't think any of them made the call (and I'd probably have recognized the voice). I have called a few folks on the phone, but the calls that weren't to close friends were to businesses or City Hall, none of which would be calling just before three in the morning, and they wouldn't have my home number, anyhow. But there is a gal I went out with once who has both phone numbers, and while it wasn't quite a Blind Date (if nothing else, nobody warned me ahead of time), it didn't end well. So I find myself wondering...
- Twin Cities cyclists, watch out! The car door of Hell is about to swing open. The 35W access project is probably going to ban bikes from Lake Street and screw up the bikeway that parallels it while they put in more ramps for 35W at Lake St.
- Visa, Mastercard seen foiling rivals. Inconceivable! Screwing consumers and banks to make a buck off credit cards?
- Visa Suit: Dictionary Discredited. The credit card company too evisa.com from a company that helped people get those little permits to travel. Apparently that word is owned by the credit-card people now. No word on what the State Department thinks.
- Tony Stewart is the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion. Congratulations!
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Last updated on Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:46:34.