We launched the site for The Magnificent Cooly-T today. Judging a book (or a movie) by it’s cover, looks like it will be a good film, even if I do say so myself.

Every once in a while, I have an idea for a business and I buy a domain name for it. Since the price to register it is about the same as lunch, I don’t think much about it. Until I get the bill. So I went in and made a list of those I was going to keep, those that I wanted to sell, and those that I was just going to let go of.

If anybody wants any of these, let me know. They have awesome business ideas behind them.

adverbowl.com
nobuffering.com
creativeuncommons.com
paragonexpress.com
provoparties.com (this site used to totally rock)
salesprompt.com

Well, a whole lot of people must have given/gotten TGI Fridays gift cards for Christmas because my phone is ringing off the hook. So far, most people seem to be hanging up and trying again (or trying 2 or 3 more times), but a few are leaving messages to let me know that they got the wrong number (listen here). Who leaves a message on an answering machine for that? Don’t most people just hang up instead? Thank you Florida.

Today I’m averaging 1 call per hour. At that rate, my toll free charges just for mistaken callers could reach $90 this year, which means I better get at least one message this awesome to make it worth the cost of keeping my number.

UPDATE 1/14/2009
Today I even had someone from TGI Fridays in Everett, MA call my number on accident.

Other posts like this one: Hello Shreveport, Making Great Voicemail Accessible

My buddy Adam went home to the Buckeye State for Christmas. While at church in a singles ward, he noticed this flyer on the bulletin board:

He snapped a photo and sent it to me saying:

“I think they need to have a lesson on immorality in the ward…or at the very least a lesson on birth control.”

Single and pregnant? Apparently you’re not alone in this Ohio singles congregation.

This post was written Monday, so i don’t have the headache anymore, but as I re-read it, my blood pressure is going back up. Sorry for the bad mood, but thank you to the Internet for allowing me to vent.

The Next Notebook Trend: Cellphone-Like Contract Deals
Yeah, here’s a great idea- lock people into stupid notebook contracts like cell phone companies do so that they end up paying 3 or 4 times what the product is actually worth. The only thing stupider: the people who would actually fall for something like this. No offense, iPhone users, it’s nearly unavoidable in your case.

15% Fat Tax:
With “the troubled economy,” state budgets are coming up short. Their solution? Tax the people. Here’s what somebody isn’t understanding: People were not made to support government, rather, government was made to support the people. Remember that whole “by the people, for the people” line?

Who is the biggest, most bloated, grotesquely obese entity on Earth? The U.S. Government. And they want to tax us for being fat?

Instead of penalizing the people because of a desire they have for a certain type of food, government should be cutting ITSELF down to make up for the hard times, not cutting the people down to make up for their own glutenous, fatty, short-sighted spending habits. The government should be doing what American families are doing to weather the hard times—cutting back, re-evaluating programs, canceling cable, re-budgeting and adjusting appetites that sometimes get out-of-hand when times are too good to be true.

How any elected representative can, in good conscience, even throw this idea around in his head for more than 3 seconds is completely beyond me. And the one thing stupider:

North Carolina’s idea of a Mileage Tax
Are elected officials going completely insane? Charging you for every mile you drive? So they want you to pay taxes out of the income you worked for to build the roads, tax you again to buy the car, tax you again every year to own the car, tax you again to buy the gas, and then on top of all that, TAX YOU AGAIN WHEN YOU ACTUALLY DRIVE THE CAR?!

I’m sorry, but when a government has to insert itself to take money from the people at every single exchange and interaction—and it still can’t support itself, it is time for that government to go. And I’m not kidding. I’m blowing a gasket. That’s WITHOUT mentioning that they propose to track the mileage by installing a GPS unit so that they know where, when, and how far you’ve gone? This is like a bad dream.

How long can the American people support what has become an un-manageable, irresponsible, corrupt government who, instead of solving problems, creates them at every turn? I have a headache.

Anybody else made this connection yet?

Thanks to cboyack for the image.

Since a lot of the stuff I’m doing these days isn’t of much interest design-wise, I’ll be posting up some of the other stuff I’ve been working on that won’t otherwise see the light of day. Abandoned Work: The Series.

This was an awareness poster for an internal communication tool à la Barack Obama.

The BBQ never actually happened. Might have been for the best though—looks like we would have been serving radioactive lettuce on the burgers.

Just a quick note in what I hope will be my last political post for a good long time.

Congratulations to Barack Obama on becoming the next president of the USA. Good luck. You’ll need it when you take over what has to be the worst job in the country.

Congratulations to John McCain for being an incredibly gracious loser. If you would have spoken during the campaign with the heart you did in your concession speech, you may have fared better in the final election results.

I didn’t vote for either of you, but am glad we can finally put campaigning behind us and work on the things that really matter to our country. The wonder of it all is that in January, the Executive power will pass peacefully from one man to the next, and the country will continue to move (hopefully forward).

Congrats to Karen Mayne, Dan Liljenquist, and the Hogle Zoo.

Congrats to Superdell who somehow convinced over 22,000 people that having a complete loon in the governor’s office would be a good thing for anybody.

Shame on the crackpots who voted to re-elect Chris Buttars.

And finally, as has been said in every livingroom in America tonight, God bless America.