Nov. 18th, 2005

davidn: (bald)
Well, the comment-generating title in the last entry almost worked - I got comments all right, but most of them were letting me know (quite fairly) that they objected to the title, rather than having read through the entry defiantly as was my hope. Therefore I will compensate with something mildly interesting.

A few of the computer science students went to a presentation on Amazon a couple of days ago. Most of it was about how they ran their database spread across a huge number of servers, but there was a brief section on some of the more unlikely things that Amazon sells. A quick search around shows a surprising amount of stuff that you'd never come across while browsing the site normally:

All those are just imaginary items that were left in from Amazon's testing stage, but we were pointed to a number of genuinely strange things as well...


Thanks to that search, my "Recommended Items" box is now pretty surreal, but at least the family's Christmas is pretty much sorted out.

[Edited because I typed this just after getting up and somehow managed to misspell "qwert" twice.]

Addendum

Nov. 18th, 2005 09:01 am
davidn: (bald)
Also, taking a break from the "All memes are rubbish" policy for a moment (as the deleted eighth instruction told me that I MUST post this on my journal or be dead within a week...)

Leave your name and...

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.

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