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Dear Interwebs:

Posted by Jordan on January 8th, 2008

Please help my failing memory.  There used to be a hilarious recording of a guy who had hooked up some equipment to his phone line and would reverse-spam telemarketers who called him with an automated system.  Key points — the fake person who answered the phone asked silly questions like:
“Think of your favorite color, ok?”
(wait [...]

As heard at the Wiens house

Posted by Jordan on September 24th, 2007

Be forewarned–Jaime informs me this wasn’t the funny the first time, and it won’t be funny repeated. Oh well. Discretion may be the better part of valor, but it’s not prominent in my repertoire.
Jaime: When you make a burrito, what do you do with it?
Jordan: Well, some folks like to take them outside [...]

secret to avoiding rushhour

Posted by Jordan on August 16th, 2007

Step 1:
Drive to work at 6:15 in the morning. Discover lights faster, road more clear.
Step 2: Work 22 hours.
Step 3: Drive home at 4:30am. discover roads even /more/ clear.

Everything under the sun

Posted by Jordan on July 21st, 2007

So you know youtube has everything, right? Everything you could possibly imagine has been recorded and is on youtube. Like, say, an entire Filipino jail re-enacting the famous Thriller music video from Michael Jackson? Complete with the ugliest “heroine” you’ve ever seen? Yup! Got it.

How not to learn Chinese

Posted by Jordan on May 7th, 2007

Just in case you thought learning Chinese by reading fortune cookies was a valid method of self-education, I’d like to use this time to demonstrate why that’s not a good idea. These fortunes were two of the three we recently opened at a meal. I always try to make people who don’t know [...]