This is me rambling about me, mostly. Current stuff: home, family, my head’s on fire… that kind of thing. This also includes everything imported from LiveJournal.
So, I’m doing the weekly ego-search over on Technorati, and I come across this blog in which the blogger says, in essence, “I read Howard’s LJ, but it’s right on the edge of me NOT reading it because I’m losing interest.”
And I thought about that. “Oh,” says me. “Maybe that’s because *I’M* losing interest.” You know, it’s hard to work up any sort of rant when you agree with the author you’re about to rant at. *sigh*.
It’s probably more of a “dry spell.” Oh, and I’ve been posting more regularly under the comic, too. And hey, Narnia opens tomorrow!
I’m surfing around the Amazon Associates site and looking at the categories in which I can create banner ads (reminder — shop at Amazon using a link at Schlock Mercenary and I get 4% of the purchase price at no additional cost to you)
“Harry Potter” is a category.
I checked, and not ONE of the the other categories was a brand-name, or was otherwise associated with an intellectual property. The other are things like “Software” and “DVD.” There are two store names — Office Depot and Target — but that’s as close as we come to acknowledging any entity other than Harry the Boy Wizard Who Lived and Made Rowling A KaBillionairess.
This is the plea of the barcode-switching, price-scamming, college freshman shoplifter Jonathan Baldino after getting busted trying to buy a $149 ipod for $4.99 at Target.
The whole story is here. Me, I think a few nights in jail will do the kid good. He may even get college equivalency credit for DON’T STEAL STUFF YOU MORON 101.