Rotary

Man, the company collecting this money should feel horrible about itself: Widow rented rotary phone for 42 years. She was paying $29.10 a month to rent a phone! I didn't even know you could still rent a phone.

In other news, wouldn't it be painful to be as stupid and immoral as this woman: Rage over MySpace photo leads to arrest. Apparently, this woman got so mad that some other woman's picture showed up on her boyfriend's MySpace page that she offered up a whole $500 to have the woman killed ($400 upfront; $100 once she saw the dead body in a photo). First, how messed up are you that you get mad at someone who appears on a MySpace page? Second, let's say your boyfriend/husband/significant other is having an affair of some sort ... he's the one who is supposed to love you ... shouldn't you get mad at him and not some woman you don't even know ... who might not even know he has a girlfriend? Third, $500? WTF? You can't even buy the new HD TiVo (much to my dismay) for $500 and you think you can get some random woman killed for it? Clearly, she isn't the sharpest tool in the toolbox.

Had lunch with a friend and her 8-week-old baby today. Some babies are just too cute - she is one of them. Perfectly shaped head and cute little baby body. And she smelled like baby. Can't beat that.

I came home to discover that Google personalized pages have added tabs. Sweet! Now I can organize the blogs I read into three categories:

• Friends - for anyone I've actually met at some point
• Entertainment - which holds blogs like the reality TV blog that I don't read, but the headlines let me know if there's a show coming up I'd like to watch
• Strangers.
  

It's insane how giddy this has made me. New functionality from Google is like crack for me. Not that I've tried crack, but I'd be willing to bet the high is equivalent.