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Even if it is a little forced, I have to give Hillary Clinton props for this video. I love it when she says “Unless I win!”

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The final trailer for the upcoming Transformers movie has just been posted.

Check it out!

Carter at Millennium Brew Ha Ha in the Gayborhood yesterday.

I just lost a whole lot of faith in ETS (Educational Testing Service).

I received my GRE scores in the mail today, and noticed that there is a free basic diagnostic service they offer that tells you what kinds of questions you got right and wrong, how hard they were, etc. Pretty cool, right? Well, it’s not if you can’t get into it. Though I followed the directions very closely, even trying several combinations of ways of entering my registration number, test date, and date of birth, I couldn’t get in. Lovely.

I clicked on the help link, and eventually found an email address to contact for assistance. I composed a quick message, sent it off, and what do I get?

Reporting-MTA: dns;rosnt106.etslan.org
Received-From-MTA: dns;mg2.ets.org
Arrival-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:11:05 -0400

Final-Recipient: rfc822;grediagnostic@lan.ets.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

grediagnostic@lan.ets.org

WTF, ETS?

So I went to the main ETS site and found a general contact link, which took me to a web form. One of the fields asked for Social Security Number. I look up at the address bar of my browser… no https, just http. I go so far as to view the HTML source of the page, on the off-chance that perhaps the page which processes the form is secure. No such luck.

WTF, ETS?

I submitted the contact form, sans SSN. Moments later, I receive a “Thank you for contacting ETS” email message. Take a look at the third paragraph:

For up to date information on the GRE Program, please visit our web site at: http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.435c0b5cc7bd0ae7015d9510c3921509/?vgnextoid=b195e3b5f64f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD

WTF, ETS?

Not only does half of your crap not even work AND you’re asking people to send their SSNs over the internet in clear text, but you have the ugliest mother f&#$%@ing URLs I’ve ever seen. How about www.ets.org/gre? Would that be so hard?

Calgon, take me away.

It’s ironic that the very first time Eric beat me at Monopoly (at least as far as I remember) was playing the recently-released Transformers version of the game. In fairness to me, though, we had to end the game prematurely. All I know is that I owned both Earth and Cybertron (the Transformers equivalents of Boardwalk and Park Place), and I would have kicked his sorry ass from here to… well… to Cybertron! (I’m sorry, I had to.)

I bought this shirt today. That’s all.