Gmail targeted ads

I was replying to an email in Gmail. Earlier in the conversation I'd mentioned my breakup. This was one of the targeted ads:

http://www.getyourexbacknow.com/just_break_up.html

Wow. Looks like a place to get a lot of bad advice.

It's also crazy how the Gmail ads are sometimes very well targeted to the people they want to reach, but other times not so much. I can see why some people find it a bit creepy. I guess this is the first time I have.

life moves along

Yesterday my nephew Carson turned one month old.

Today marks a year since my grandma, my last living grandparent, died.

Today my dad turns sixty (Happy Birthday!).

Tomorrow makes three months being single, a full season's worth of time.

02/08/08 PHD comic: 'Crushing the Dream'

This made me laugh pretty hard. The one before it is pretty funny, too. The quality of undergrads at Carolina is generally high, and I suspect very few of them will spend any extended period of time in minimum wage jobs. But it still made me laugh.

02/08/08 PHD comic: 'Crushing the Dream'

[2/16/08: It stopped displaying the comic so now I just link to it]

disowning Honest Abe?

Just saw Romney give a speech where his trinity of great Republicans was Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and Bush I. The PBS pundits noticed that he skipped W (which makes since given his low popularity even among Republicans). But I scratched my head as to why those three beat out the guy who freed the slaves and kept the country together... I mean, it annoys me when the Republicans do the "we're the Party of Lincoln" thing ad nauseam, but it seems weird to have Romney not do it.