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Jill Wagner is insanely hot

North Carolina native Jill Wagner was born in Winston Salem on January 13, 1979 and graduated with honors from North Carolina State University in 2001. She was a regular on the MTV show Punk’d, and appeared as a regular on the short-lived Spike TV show Blade: The Series in 2006. She is now one of the commentators on the ABC hit Wipeout, but she’s still known to most as “the hot girl from the Mercury car commercials”, a role she’s had since 2005. And yes, she’s insanely hot!

These pics were taken with an iPhone camera (or something) and posted on Twitter, so the quality ain’t that great… but the subject matter sure is!

Click it, brother!
Click it, brother!

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Computer Users

I was surfing one of my favorite message boards this past Saturday when I stumbled upon a bizarre question: someone asked what font and text color other people used in their emails.

I suppose the font question isn’t all that strange, as there was some variation in the responses. But the people who replied universally used black at their font color, which seemed to surprise the OP… who uses teal text in his\her emails.

I started imagining what the “teal text” poster was like, and then expanded the thought to several other types of computer user I know:

THE “COLORED EMAIL TEXT” USER

– Is typically female.
– Has pictures of her kids, grandkids, and\or cats as desktop wallpaper (bonus points if it’s a picture of the grandkids holding the cats).
– Said wallpaper is usually stretched to fill the desktop, making the kids look like extras from Deliverance.
– Has crayon drawings by her kids\grandkids on the wall of her office or cube. These are usually signed by the artist, allowing me to surprise her by figuring out that her password is “Justin” or “Madison”.
– Has 300 icons on her desktop.
– Her browser windows look like this:

Overloaded Toolbar
– Has Weatherbug installed.
– Was probably the person who invented the saying “somebody’s got a case of the Mondays!”.
– On the plus side, one of her desk drawers is normally a candy stash.

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Mad Men: “Love Among the Ruins”

This episode begins with a clip of Ann-Margret singing “Bye Bye Birdie” from the film of the same name. The lights come up, and we’re in a conference room at Sterling Cooper. Ken says that Pepsi wants to copy this scene, frame-by-frame, for a new ad for Patio, the company’s new diet drink. Sal says that Pete must be breaking out in a sweat. Harry says that he will definitely sit in on the casting for this commercial. Peggy is taken aback, thinking that perhaps they out to rethink the campaign. After all, as Peggy rightfully states, the campaign should be aimed at the women who will buy the drink. After Ken shoots down Peggy’s arguments, she says that “clients don’t always know what’s best”.

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At the Draper house, confusion reigns as Betty discovers an empty box of Melba toast in the pantry. Don tells her to eat some oatmeal, as the “baby might end up weighing a pound”. Don looks at some pictures a designer has left, then berates her for choosing too many as the pictures cost $3 each. Betty says that she can’t judge by pictures. Betty suggest that the family visit some antique stores in Tarrytown. The kids complain that the stores stink. Don tells them that they’re going, and that they’ll stare at antiques for so long that the buttons will seem interesting… but he then offers them an olive branch by way of a trip to the Carvel on the way home.

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R.I.P. Dominick Dunne

Today, the world lost a philandering drunk who killed a girl back in 1969… and also lost a gifted crime writer:

Writer Dominick Dunne has died, Vanity Fair is reporting. He was 83.

He died of bladder cancer today at home in Manhattan, said his son, actor-director Griffin Dunne.

Dunne was a best-selling author who also spent 25 years as a correspondent and editor with Vanity Fair. He covered some of the most celebrated figures and their legal travails.

via Writer Dominick Dunne has died at 83 – USATODAY.com.

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Plaza Pharmacy Commercial

Thanks to pecanne log’s Twitter feed, I was able to find this awesome commercial for Atlanta’s Plaza Pharmacy on Downhome Traces.

I have no idea when the commercial was filmed (probably some time in the late 60s or early 70s) but I do remember seeing it on late night TV when I was a kid:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnSkNHuHBmw

Ah, memories for the ATL folks… especially for my Dad. Not only did my Pops work close to Plaza, it was the closest 24-hour pharmacy to our house in Snellville when I was growing up (yes, Snellville). My mom tells me that I only liked one particular brand of pacifier when I was a baby, and she sent him out to Plaza one night at 3am (80 minutes round trip!) when she lost one and didn’t have any replacements on hand!

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Hail to The Chief

Today marks the 21st anniversary of the death of Art Rooney, Sr., the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The folks over at Behind the Steel Curtain have posted this poignant essay about the man who most knew as “The Chief”:

As a humanitarian, Art Rooney had few equals. When a Pittsburgh Steeler was ever in the hospital, Rooney would visit every morning and bring a newspaper and fresh coffee. Rooney’s wife, Kathleen, would stop in later with home-baked muffins. When boarding the plane after road games, each player was handed a couple beers while Art Rooney passed out cigars to all who wanted them. No wonder the players loved him, so much so that one year the players walked to his house and sang Christmas carols.

One day at a racetrack, Rooney and a friend were approached by a little old lady. She was sobbing loudly, telling Rooney how she just lost her last dollar. Her family was hungry and her grandson needed medicine. She bet what little money she had in order to make enough to buy food and medicine. Rooney pulled $100 out of his pocket and gave it to her. His friend quickly pointed out that the lady was an impostor. She was a regular phony at the racetrack. “I know that,” said Rooney, “but did you see that performance? She earned it.”

Another day at the track, a good one for the Chief, ended with him driving home with heavy pockets. He saw a priest waiting for a bus and, with his affinity for priests, stopped and offered the clergyman a ride. During conversation the priest revealed that his church needed a new roof. Rooney asked if the priest knew how much that would cost and was told $7,500. The Chief reached into his bulging pocket, peeled off $7,500 and handed it to the priest. Astonished, the priest politely indicated he couldn’t accept money that was not legit. After Rooney identified the track he came from that day, the priest took the cash with dropped-jaw and looked to the heavens. “That’s OK,” the Chief laughed, “just say a prayer for me.”

It’s a really great piece, and worth a read for any football fan. It almost makes me kind of sad that people like Jerry Jones can be NFL owners while there were once people like The Chief running things.

via He Stood on Higher Ground: Farewell to the Chief

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Mad Men recap delay

Sorry for the delay in the Mad Men recap. No downloadable versions of the episode have hit the Internet yet, and since I use those videos to make the screencaps and review the episode in detail, I’m waiting on that before I can start the recap.

As soon as it hits the Intarwebs, I’ll start on the review.

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Repair Shop Saves Brett-Favre-Themed Goat

This is (by far) the strangest story I’ve read today!

It’s lucky for a Brett-Favre-themed goat that the car broke down, otherwise he’d have probably been slaughtered, says the Winona Daily News. A woman driving a Chevy Malibu came into the Winona, MN Tires Plus last Friday asking if they could replace a belt. She then informed the employees that there was a live goat in the trunk that she planned to slaughter later.

via Repair Shop Saves Brett-Favre-Themed Goat From Certain Slaughter.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23

  • 3 hours 'til the season premiere of Mad Men!! #
  • 1 hour 'til the season premiere of Mad Men!! #
  • @terrinh73 Rachel Maddow is Eli Manning in disguise! #
  • My Mad Men recapreview is up: http://ping.fm/DB1YN #
  • My "Mad Men" recap-review is up: http://ping.fm/DB1YN #
  • @diablocody You know F. Murray Abraham was one of those Fruit of the Loom guys in the 70s, right? #
  • Happy Birthday, Bittle! 🙂 #
  • If a dog develops pica, how do you know? #
  • Test #
  • Sneaking off to the movies to see "Inglorious Basterds"! #
  • Was outside smoking and saw a cloud that looked like the monster from "Alien"! #
  • "It's never enough until your heart stops beating" #
  • getting ready for a busy night! #
  • @Dish – Heading to the cook-out soon! #

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I was (almost) right!

All versions of Firefox 3.x have been affected by a strange “bug”: all Flash-related content has a tendency to “stutter” every few seconds (especially YouTube videos, but also non-video things like those “Know It All” quizzes on Facebook).

Back on November 30, 2008 I posted this article, in which I postulated that the problem was related to Firefox’s “session saving” capability. In fact, I specifically said:

Disable anything that saves your sessions (tabs). This not only includes extensions like SessionSaver or Weave, but also Firefox’s built-in session saving tool.

So it was somewhat surprising to see that someone else had stumbled across the “solution” to the problem this week in posts at Lifehacker and Download Squad.

Do I get “attboy” and “THANK YOU!!!” posts on this site? Nooooooo, I sure don’t! Such is life on the Internet, I guess.

I will admit that the “Lifehacker solution” is a bit more elegant: go to about:config and change the value of:

browser.sessionstore.interval

from 10000 (milliseconds) to 300000 (milliseconds). This changes how often Firefox saves your session information from every 10 seconds to every 5 minutes, which, while not eliminating the stuttering completely, should drastically reduce them.

Can anyone tell me if Firefox automatically saves a session on close, regardless of the interval settings?