Jason Crowther's Blog » Humor http://jasoncrowther.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:40:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 IM Spam of the Day http://jasoncrowther.com/2008/09/04/im-spam-of-the-day/ http://jasoncrowther.com/2008/09/04/im-spam-of-the-day/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:11:44 +0000 jasonjcrowther http://jasoncrowther.com/2008/09/04/im-spam-of-the-day/ Continue reading →]]> Nothing I enjoy more than nonsense spam text.  Good see that its spread to the IM world.  Here’s today’s giggle inducer:

PersonalTrout: Listen, this is going to sound very weird, but how in the world does one remove an angry spider monkey from one’s…sensitive areas?

Probably time to turn off that protocol (Yahoo) in Pidgin.  Oh well…

]]> http://jasoncrowther.com/2008/09/04/im-spam-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Am I a Cheese Roller? http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/05/17/am-i-a-cheese-roller/ http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/05/17/am-i-a-cheese-roller/#comments Thu, 17 May 2007 11:07:10 +0000 jasonjcrowther http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/05/17/am-i-a-cheese-roller/ Continue reading →]]> Recently, the following email showed up:

From: James Fryer
Date: May 14, 2007 1:07 PM
Subject: Are you a cheese roller?

Hi Jason,

Apologies for the out of the blue email.

I’m actually looking for the Jason Crowther who won last year’s cheese rolling event in Gloucestershire. I noticed on your website that you are a downhill runner and thought I might have found the right man – but then looking at your picture you look nothing like the picture of the Jason I’ve seen.

Perhaps by some strange coincidence you share the name and sporting interest of the person I’m after!

Would really appreciate it if you could get in touch.

Kindest,
James

Cheese Rolling, for the uneducated, is pretty much what it sounds like, chasing a wheel of cheese down a hill. I giggled as the read the Cheese Rolling Wikipedia entry where it says that later rounds of the competition are postponed as the ambulances need to return from the hospital after dropping off contestants from previous rounds.

Turns out that I’ve been warring for top search result on Google with a few other Jason Crowther’s. The guy in the top spot at the moment happens to be Jason Crowther, the Cheese Rolling Champion.

Couldn’t leave my new friend James hanging, so I sent this back:

hi james,

sorry, but I think you’ve got the wrong jason crowther. I’m more of the flatland running type myself. it appears that the jason crowther, the cheese roller, is besting me on google again. darn. by the way, I’m also not jason crowther the grad student, or jason crowther the triathlete.

cheers…

-=>j

I thought my wise ass reply would be the end of it. But, surprisingly, I got another reply.

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your email. Maybe you should give the cheese roll a go? It’s a bit of a vertical shift from flat running but I reckon it must be your destiny :)

Man, that’s a hoot.

hi james,

hmm. think I’m gonna pass on rolling. I seem to have enough trouble trying to keep myself injury free just running on the flats. knowing my luck, I’d probably break my leg on the walk up the hill. ;-)

Nice to bump into someone a nice sense of humor.  He was kind enough to let me share this with his blessing.

]]> http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/05/17/am-i-a-cheese-roller/feed/ 2 Latest In Anti-Theft Technology http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/05/07/latest-in-anti-theft-technology/ http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/05/07/latest-in-anti-theft-technology/#comments Mon, 07 May 2007 11:03:34 +0000 jasonjcrowther http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/05/07/latest-in-anti-theft-technology/ Continue reading →]]> (Via the TechEBlog, via Digg) the Brief Safe. How clever! They’re a pair of fake tighty whitey underpants with a secret compartment for hiding your valuables. Nothing special there, we’ve all seen clothing with special pockets like that before. The Brief Safe goes a step farther by adding a realistic looking skid mark on the hind quarters. If I was a burglar, rifling through your drawers, I’d pass those over, for sure!

]]> http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/05/07/latest-in-anti-theft-technology/feed/ 2 San Francisco Deja Vu http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/04/28/san-francisco-deja-vu/ http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/04/28/san-francisco-deja-vu/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:29:45 +0000 jasonjcrowther http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/04/28/san-francisco-deja-vu/ Continue reading →]]> Was catching up on digg, and spotted this little post: unfortunate placement of yahoo ad. Har dee har, nerd humor (404 is the error code for a web page not found, for the non-techies out there.)

The image was hosted on flickr. The previous picture in the set caught my eye. Hmm, that looks like AT&T Park. Huh, I was just there! Wait a second, the photo was uploaded was 4/19. I wonder if they took the picture the same night… The was the same night I walked around the park taking my own pictures.  Spooky.

Scrolling back a little further in the other guy’s photostream, I can they were also at the Web 2.0 Expo. What are the odds?

]]> http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/04/28/san-francisco-deja-vu/feed/ 0 Arrested! http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/04/08/arrested/ http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/04/08/arrested/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:48:47 +0000 jasonjcrowther http://jasoncrowther.com/2007/04/08/arrested/ Continue reading →]]> Got a call from the local MDA office saying that they would like to arrest me to help raise some funds for their 2007 Lock-Up program. I said, sure, why not. So, they slapped a $1200 bail figure on me and said they’d be in to arrest me at work on May 15th.

Please give me hand and help bail me out. I set up a microsite (with an easy to remember URL) here:

http://getmeout.jasoncrowther.com

with more information about the program and a link to my donation page.

Jerry’s Kids count on your support. Please donate whatever you can. Its really easy and will only take a minute. Every little bit helps!

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