Assorted goods

Nate flooded the zone with a flurry of activity at the end of November; instead of replying to each post individually, here's a quick rundown:

I like watching Billy Mays in commercials for the same reason I liked watching Don West hawking sports cards, but Mays doesn't have the same insane hyperbole as West. "I GUARANTEE AT LEAST ONE STAN MUSIAL ROOKIE CARD."

Evel Knievel dying of natural causes is the most anticlimactic thing ever. There's not even an analogy you can use. Maybe if Bill Gates dies penniless and drunk in a gutter, that might come close, but that's more of a reversal of fortune than a letdown.

After I first read the story of Zoey Zane, dead secret porn star, I did a Google image search to see what was up and some of the websites that hosted her photo shoots had the decency to take the pictures down. I found some others, though. Not bad, nothing special though.

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Here's something weird. I received an email from Schmap, makers of downloadable travel guides informing me that this picture I took in New York City:



had been selected for possible use in their NYC travel guide. They found it in a Flickr search, which they use for source material. They don't pay for the usage, but they do ask for permission and their terms of use were reasonable, plus the travel guides are free, so I agreed to allow the picture to be used. My photography abilities are non-existent, so the idea that my picture may be used in perpetuity in an NYC travel guide is hilarious.