Dojo Info 7/28/07

1. Tiny Dog Saves Baby From Rattlesnake
   I hate yippy dogs but in this case, I’ll make an exception.
2. Asterisk Says It Wants No Part of Barry Bonds Record; Suggests Question Mark “Step Up For Once”
   Haha!
3. Coin dealer flies dime worth $1.9 million to NYC
   1 of only 24 created; 1 of only 9 known to still exist. That’s a rare coin. [via kottke]
4. Harry Potter and the Phantom Delivery
   Looks like kottke has the same gripe I do with Amazon’s on-time delivery lag. Him with Harry Potter and me with Guitar Hero: Rock the 80s. Here’s what I wrote:

   I’ve been an Amazon customer for years and I’ve been extremely pleased. In fact, I have an Amazon VISA. So it’s uncommon for me to complain about your service but this past order was different.

   Several months back I put in a Pre-Order for Guitar Hero: Rock the 80s because I wanted to get it as soon as it came out. That date was July 24th. Thinking Amazon does so much business, I thought you would have inventory before (or at least the same time as) most other stores. Boy was I wrong.

   As it turned out, you didn’t even ship the product on the 25th. Today is the 28th and I still don’t have it. Tomorrow is Sunday so I doubt it will arrive then. That means I’m likely to get the item I pre-ordered roughly 6 days after I could have purchased it if I had walked down the street to Target.

   Needless to say this level of service is extremely poor. Even though up until this experience I really liked shopping with Amazon (check my account) I’ll likely use Amazon less because of this issue.

   I thought you would want to know.

5. Bond tries for the Record
   The sports world is about to implode. What’s with steroid-Barry yanking the record; Vick trying to buy his way outta jail; and Stern allowing the dirty NBA ref to potentially take down the Association. What do you think? Is there any reason why we shouldn’t be outraged?!?