Certified spam fritter

Here’s one of the odder pieces of spam I’ve received. So far:

My first clue that this wasn’t legit is that I’m not a CPA. In fact, the idea that I’d work in any capacity even remotely close to accountancy is enough to set the laughometer into seismic overload. The real crime here would be if I were in practice as an accountant, certified or otherwise.

So I wasn't unduly worried that a professional organization could revoke some status that I don't have & which is conferred by state licensing agencies anyhow.

But I thought I’d share with you. It makes a nice change from online cat antics.

Paws for thought

In case you're ever in need of laughing yourself senseless, I give you a change from Maru & breaded cats.  Downton Tabby:

Breaded cats? Not Maru

Allegedly a hot Internet trend: cat breading.

What? You don’t know about cat breading? Pull the insides from a slice of bread & stick your cat’s head into the hole. Then take a photo & slap it up on the Web.

Two questions:

Does PETA know about this?

Would anyone be subjecting their feline to such indignity if the Net didn’t exist?


Actually, one more: I wonder if ER visits for cat scratches are on the rise?

Microapple sauce

I happened to be in a local mall recently & noticed that when Microsoft their Mac-manqué store, they went out of their way to get up close & personal with their Great Satan:

This photo is a shot of the Microsoft store. You can see the reflection in the window of the Apple store. You could stand in front of one & spit watermelon seeds at the window of the other.

What you can’t see is that, while the Apple store is humming with activity, you could hold World War III in the Microsoft store & no one would get hurt.

Time flies on H2

Okay, so it's not just the Discovery franchise/Military Channel that's cut corners on editors.

I was scanning the offerings on H2 (the Channel Formerly Known as History International, But Which Has Long Since Forsaken Any Pretense of Actual Interest in Anything Outside the US) and realized that their blurb writers don't seem to be able to equate a one-hour time block with 60 minutes.

Seriously--is no one paying any attention?