Explain this to me....

[Ran]

Yeah, there is that linguist school in Monterrey, CA that has been pumping out translators. I thought there were a whole slew of them at CENTAF HQ in Florida.

[quote=anarky]The real confusing question: How come if I buy an album by Johnny Cash, Amazon starts bombarding me with e-mails that start, "As a country music fan, you might like..." followed by stuff I definitely would not like? Yet they will allow new books by authors I've bought multiple books by, albums by bands I've bought multiple albums by, etc, totally slip by until I find out about them six months later? Can't they work on their recommendation system, or at least realize that all Johnny Cash fans don't automatically love bullshit like Toby Keith or Rascal Flatts?[/quote]

Amazon's recommendation system is screwy. There is a box somewhere that you can check that says something like "don't use this item for recommendations". For a while it kept recommending all sorts of SW POTF2 and EP1 figures. I don't know why because I never bought Star Wars figures from Amazon.

[anarky]

I wouldn't mind it using Johnny Cash for recommendations, but I don't know how many people really listen to the "old dead guys and dudes in their 80s" sort of country and the bullshit that is played on the radio nowadays.

[Bizarro The Grin]

the phantom manhandler (did i just create a new forumite, or was it just bizzarro the grip?)

wASN'T ME. tHIS GUY HAS NO KIDS. i ONLY HANDLE THE nAVY KNOBS OF KNOWN FATHERS, AND THEY KNOW i'M COMING. i KNOW WHEN THEY'RE CUMMING, TOO, AND i MAKE SURE TO AIM AT MY MOUTH!

[Zaphod]

explain this to me: why would any man living today not aspire to create time travel simply so he could go back and fuck madonna in 1983?

[anarky]

I do not know.

Back to an earlier point in here: I got an e-mail telling me that, as someone who's shown interest in Peter Gabriel in the past, I might like to know about their "great Peter Gabriel sale."

Over a year ago, I clicked on his album because their stupid Gold Box setup often lists an album without any indication as to who it's from.

And, yet, they can never tell me when a new John Hiatt album is coming out, despite my ordering most of his albums that I have from Amazon because no one else carries the damned things.

[jjreason]

In 1983 (or at least when the Holiday video came out) I used to try and look down her top by staring at the TV from above. Sadly it didn't work.