Nobrainer’s Think Tank

• I had to take the Girlfriend to the airport today. Charlottesville’s airport is tiny; I like that. I also have no idea what to do with the Girlfriend out of town, but drinking a lot of beer and not shaving seem like great ideas.
• Speaking of great ideas, stealing undies in Great Britain may earn you a spot on the sex offenders’ register. “The point of including theft is because offences such as stealing underwear from a washing line obviously has a sexual motive.” I think the trend of labeling sex offenders has officially gone too far. (I in no way support or approve of the theft of women’s underwear.)
• Firefox has been upsetting me lately. It was hanging up frequently. However, the problem seems to have really been with ForecastFox. (UPDATE: maybe it wasn’t ForecastFox. I hate that Firefox will get snagged while I can open any other browser and it will actually download the pages of my bidding.)
• Since I also just re-installed Google Desktop, I should be able to use that for all my weather related needs. Hooray!
• Firefox 2.0 seems ok. Upgrading is slightly annoying. I really wish it did a better job of importing settings from previous versions. Also, I hate that the quicksearch now doesn’t include “next” and “previous” buttons. IE7 is taking a little while to get used to, but it is definitely leaps and bounds better than IE6.
• OnRebate.com is excessively close to pissing me off. I decided to pay a 10% fee on a $55 rebate so that I could have a check mailed within 3-5 days of rebate approval. It’s been a solid week since approval and their “guarantee” looks disgustingly meaningless.
• Gawker published a list of bad blog-media clichés. If I avoid those phrases entirely, don’t expect much blogging from me for the upcoming year.
• My online Christmas shopping ground to a halt after 3 different retailers were sold out of the items I wanted from them. Gift cards for everybody this year!
• Froogle gets worse with each use. I love the wishlist feature, as it makes it easy to point my favorite gift-buyers in the right direction. It’s getting worse primarily because it too often lists a bunch of vendors I’ve never heard of and don’t want to deal with.

Well that’s enough I guess.

Oh yeah, one more:

• I found out that Steven Tyler (you know, the Aerosmith guy) has more than one daughter. One’s hot. The other looks the same except 100 pounds heavier and goth.