Kevin Bacon and pals have launched something pretty spiffy: Six Degrees. It's social networking, but with a greater purpose - you become your own "celebrity" for the causes that you care about.
Nice to see that Mr. Footloose has a sense of humor, and can parlay a silly game into something good.
Read more about Six Degrees.
(Notably, I remember a start-up web service back in the late 90's/early 2000s called Six Degrees. If you signed up, they were supposed to send you a free CD. I'm still waiting on it. Apparently, they're still online at www.sixdegrees.com but nothing is there . . . another victim of the dot-bomb era?)
J and I were discussing last night making the State of the Union into a drinking game. Drink for each time W says:
- terror/war on terror/terrorism
- bipartisan
- cooperation
- new era
- saddam hussein
- september THE 11th
- north korea
I'm open to additional suggestions.
Am I the only person who thinks that Second Life is L-A-M-E?
. . . is an adage that should be as well known as "never fight a land war in Asia."
Back in November, I found a lovely little sofa at www.jcpenney.com, JC Penney's online store. So, I placed the order, and waited with anticipation for my comfy new couch to arrive.
Which it did, with two large holes in it, which I didn't discover until unwrapping it. It looked as though someone had tried to pick it up with a forklift, as it was pierced through the bottom through to the seat of the couch.
Of course, the couch arrives a few days before Christmas. I called JC Penney and asked them to pick it up and ship me a new one. They tell me that as it's the holidays, it make take a few weeks.
Fine, I can live with a broke-ass couch in my one bedroom apartment for a few weeks and take more time off work to deal with this.
Last week, the oh-so-unfriendly delivery company, Seko, shows up with the new couch, but refuses to take the old one as it's "not on their bill." So again, I'm on the phone with JC Penney's customer service department, asking them what to do. I'm told not to throw out the couch, that they would put out an "urgent dispatch" to have Seko pick it back up (claiming that they told them that in the first place, and that it was Seko's fault, not theirs).
That was Wednesday, and as of this evening, I still have two couches in my apartment.
So I called JC Penney again today, and was told by rather unfriendly customer service supervisor lady that "these things take 72 hours to process," so that JC Penney was still within "an acceptable timeframe" for this issue. No one told me that last week, when I was told that they would be on it right away.
And still no call from the Seko, either.
Want to place any bets on when this will all be resolved? At the rate this is all going, JC Penney will likely instruct Seko to either 1) come bash in my other couch or 2) take both couches.
