Octopodial Chrome

Arnold Rimmer has a website. Or at least Chris Barrie does.

Seems that Bruce Campbell is in as new film, called Bubba Ho-Tep. He plays Elvis, who didn’t die but instead switched places with an impersonator (who went on to die of pills & fatty food). He’s ended up in a nursing home with JFK, who was died black by the CIA after they replaced his brain. And now there’s a mummy stalking the other folks in the retirement home. So odd that I’ve got to see it.

Slashdot has a review which manages to nicely whet my appetite.

Back in August, Dave Barry published the toll-free number of the American Teleservices Association. Thousands of folks called, wasting the ATA’s time (can you imagine that?). It got so bad that the telephone number was disconnected.

Well, he’s now published their new number. It is, at least for the moment, 317-816-9336 (I called it, and the guy at the end said it was the wrong number). So make sure to pick it up and see if they are interested in any of the fabulous offers you no doubt have.

This whole telemarketing business is much like the spam problem. It isn’t free to receive spam (some 1/3 or so of AOL’s) email storage space is spam, pure and simple), and nor is it free to receive a telemarketer’s call. It takes time and effort to answer the phone, time and effort which one would prefer not to expend. The solution, of course, is to waste the telemarketers’ time with phone calls, much as the solution to spam is to fill the mailboxes of spammers with every catalogue, subscription, junk mail &c. one possibly can. It doesn’t so much do good as make one feel good, which is good enough for me.