Comments on: Amazon know something

By: Deborah

Deborah — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:58:16 +0000

Grandad have you tried bookdepository.com? Free shipping… always works out cheaper than Amazon. I hate the bastards since they opened the wartehouse in Dublin. How come people in the UK get free shipping when they spend more than fifteen quid and the stuff is sent from Ireland? But we don’t get shit. Paddy tax again. Makes me so mad!

By: Thriftcriminal

Thriftcriminal — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:18:45 +0000

Well they say they don’t know what I am talking about so I have a couple of them in stress positions in the basement listening to Nine Inch Nails at 65dB. I’ll pop down with a jug of water and a burlap sack later and see if they have any further light to shed.

By: Brianf

Brianf — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:54:35 +0000

Grandad, IBM and Microsloth hooked up in 1979.
Jay, the funny point of that quote is the final four words, ‘that we know of’.
If it’s not a PEBKAC error it might be an ID10T error.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:26:27 +0000

Don’t worry. It’s that time of year, isn’t it? They have a bunch of kids in on Work Experience and they figured doing the recommended reading was probably the least trouble they could get into.

Brianf - and the CEO was absolutely right - of course he was. Computers don’t make mistakes. People do! Or to put it another way, PEBCAK.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:59:55 +0000

Ian - “but maybe also prescient” I hope not.

McAWilliams - Good point about the family. Himself has probably sent brown envelopes all over the place, pushing the book like mad. He has standards to maintain.

Longman - I get to go on my holliers, but for how long? I’d rather be kidnapped, please?

King Bob - I never thought of that! The Bulimic’s Handbook. No wonder she sells so well.

Brianf - Was that before or after Bill Gates came along?

By: Brianf

Brianf — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:12 +0000

One of my favorite quotes came from the CEO of IBM in the early 1980’s. “None of our computers have ever made a mistake that we know of”.

By: King Bob

King Bob — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:01:41 +0000

You had me worried there, I went straight on to Amazon, they reckon I need a book about food by the poo collector Gillian McKeith. Now I know I might have put on a few pounds and my other half bought me an unsolicited Wii Fit to fuel my weight paranoia, but for crying out loud how did Amazon know? Can I have your Cecilia Ahern book? it will make me lose weight by vomiting per chapter.

By: Longman Oz

Longman Oz — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:52:12 +0000

Think you have it bad, Grandad? Huh! That is nothing! They are recommending the following to me - Kidnapped, Hard Times, and For Whom The Bell Tolls. At least you get to go on your holliers!

By: McAWilliams

McAWilliams — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:44:27 +0000

Ah Grandad,

I can see you being the caravaning sort, I think fair play to them giving you the chance to purchase this wealth of knowledge, maybe you could go caravaning in the uk with all the folk you own on the networking site.

Cecelia Ahern is just scary though obviously with daddy out of a job the ahern family are trying to flog of as many books as possible before we forget about them.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:24:35 +0000

Getting Cecelia Ahern in your list is as weird as the text sensitive ads with Gmail which today are offering me skilled jobs in Australia.

The Amazon recommendations are bizarre sometimes - but maybe also prescient!