The people on Yahoo! Answers never cease to amaze me with their high quality queries and rapid, helpful responses.

The following question was posted under Women’s Heath. I sorted the responses, so top rated answer for this gem of a question is just below the question. See the question and response »

I had my first Friday off in – I don’t even remember how long – and I spent almost the entire day validating XHTML for this blog. If I never have to fix XHTML errors again it would be too soon.

Most of the errors came from the MCE editor’s attempt at “fixing” open paragraphs which were never open. I had several hundred errors involving closed P tags. I guess the MCE editor thinks that everything should be enclosed in a P tag, even if it is not a paragraph.

My biggest frustration with these closed P tags came when I tried to fix my list headers. The MCE editor doesn’t understand that anything contained within “<lh></lh>” is not a paragraph, so it wouldn’t stop adding the “</p>” after the closed LH. I even tried to add LH as a valid element for TinyMCE, but it didn’t help. Ultimately, the editor won, and I had to remove all of my LH tags and use the stupid P tag just before the list. It doesn’t look the same, and I really wish I could keep TinyMCE from screwing with valid tags.

In the end, I ended up with valid XHTML on all but two pages, both of which had 50+ errors involving closed P tags which were never opened. I think I’ll fix those another day.

Vince from ShamWow

Well, he’s back. Vince, from the ShamWow commercials, is now pitching the Slap Chop.

Unfortunately for everyone, this commercial is even more annoying than the ShamWow commercial.

I don’t even know where to begin to bitch about this commercial. You’ll have to see it for yourself to understand how truly bad it is. I’m going to break my rule for this post, because I’d hate to waste my bandwidth on posting this commercial, so here’s the commercial embedded from YouTube.

Not only are you going to love his nuts, the Graty (horrible spelling for a horrible item) cheese grater is great for making freduccini. Whatever the fuck that is. Am I mistaken, or is the “tuna” he uses actually cat food?

On a side note, I found a parody ShamWow commercial when I was looking for the Slap Chop commercial, so here it is. It’s awesome.

As I’ve said before, one of the things I do when I’m bored is flip through questions on Yahoo! Answers and look for the dumbest questions being asked at the time. It usually doesn’t take long, but this time the work was done for me so it didn’t take any time at all!

I came across an image on another site, which was a screen cap of a question asked in the Decorating & Remodeling section of Yahoo! Answers, and I laughed so hard that I decided to see the question for myself.

A quick Google search led me right to the question. Continue to the question »

Vince from ShamWow

I cannot be the only one that wants to shoot that ShamWow guy, Vince, in the face.

I’m so sick of seeing and hearing the commercials on TV, and I really wish someone would find this guy at a ShamWow demonstration tent and hit him in the face. With a hammer.

If it weren’t for Vince, I think I might consider buying a ShamWow, but this annoying ass-goblin sells it like he’s trying to sell his own mother. My favorite line is when he says “It’s made in Germany. You know the Germans always make good stuff.” Like Adolf Hitler and Nazis. Idiot.

I think I would be more open to buying a ShamWow if the commercial actually went something like this:

Yes, it is a fucking ShamWow!

I only have one final complaint about my iPod. It has finally kicked the bucket, and I cannot be more pissed about it.

It was dropped a while back, and the LCD backlight was cracked, but the main LCD display worked fine as long as I kept the backlight off. I was okay with this. Things like this happen, and eventually I would order a new screen and replace it. Read what else happened »