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Do Central Ohioan’s have bad taste in pizza?

A Central Ohio pizza shop owner comment spammed on my The Best Pizza in Columbus is in Philadelphia?:

“Columbus, Ohio traditionally has had terrible pizza and what is sad about that is that the residents aren’t even aware of that growing up on it. Well that has now changed because _____s Pizza in ______ serves a outstanding East Coast style pizza loved in Pennsylvania, New York and anyone that truly loves authentic Italian taste. Be sure to check them out.”

April 22nd, 2007 at 08:36 pm

written by the owner of the joint.

Did he say he was the owner?

No.

I did not notice the spam comment on my blog for most of the day Monday.

My Askimet (spam filter) has taken care of over 2000 instances of comment spam on this blog, most of it does not even show up. Thank goodness for Askimet. Lots of it is insurance spam… I don’t know why insurance companies hire spammers to send out links, after link after link of comment spam. Some gambling spam, some porn spam.

Real Living HER has had bad email spam for a couple of weeks. Noticabley worse. I had about 240 emails that were spam between 9 PM Sunday night and 6:00 AM Monday morning, in addition to the 533 spams that my email spam filter ate. I can barely find incoming mail for all the spam.

I talked to our Real Living “Help Desk” Thursday April 13, after a couple of days of hundreds of spams a day coming directly into my mailbox and mingling with the real mail. After a 12 minute lecture about spam, I threw my cell phone at the wall and we were somehow disconnected… Imagine that? Yesterday I got an email. “Yes” there has been a problem with our spam filter…. This morning there were only two spam emails in my mailbox.

Spam, spam, spam. In the midst of all this spam I notice this Central Ohio spammer posted an ad for his pizza parlor as a comment, complete with address and phone number, not identifying himself as the owner of the establishment he was touting… there’s something in the tone of a spammer… Googling I think they have a website but only find other bogus reviews by the spammer. SNP did a story about them back in February when they opened.

According to the person who answered the phone the spammer owns the place with his brother and his brother’s fiance. I hope the spammer makes the pizzas. I hope the brother or the brothers fiance is in charge of public relations, advertising and business in general.

We have an administrative assistant in our office who is from NYC. She’s got the accent… she’s got the attitude, she has said some unforgiveable things about Columbus pizza over the years… but I forgive her.

I was just going to edit out the contact info from his spam comment but I deleted the whole comment. I’ll be watching the foodie blogs to see if they are raving over “outstanding East Coast style” spam pizza anytime soon.

Stay tuned I’d doing a pizza poll of Central Ohio soon….. gosh I am hungry for pizza, good old Central Ohio pizza and that makes me angry.

I was at Scramblers at Polaris for breakfast yesterday and saw a home inspector I know and like. The one thing I don’t like about him is he has big shoulders.

In an article in In Contract Magazine about home inspections James Zeitsman a Columbus attorney writing to REALTORS® wrote:

“Of course, the report is only as good as the person doing the inspection. The inspector needs to be qualified and experienced. Look for professional association memberships. Talk to other agents and brokers to get referrals. The best inspector is not necessarily the one that never finds a problem so all of the deals close.”

Zeitsman missed small shoulders…in his list of what to look for in a good inspector. Small shoulders is one thing I like in a home inspector. I had a deal fall through (not close, thank goodness!) a few years back because of an excellent inspector with small shoulders.

A few weeks later when a house in Worthington came back on the market and another client needed a home inspector we asked for the engineer with the small shoulders (I know his name ) because of a concern with a small opening to a crawl space… the inspector with the small shoulders was tied up (could it be demand created by small shoulders?)

Both inspectors work for the same organization, they are members of a professional organization, they are both engineers… only difference is in the shoulders.

The inspector I saw yesterday did the inspection for my other clients… I thought of him as rather compact but when he arrived that day, I noticed he’s built!

He did a great inspection I am sure but he could not go into the crawl space. Drat!

If their shoulders are small home inspectors will fit into crawl spaces and other tight spots that other inspectors won’t fit into. Do all home inspectors go into crawl spaces, attics? Not if they can’t fit. It would become a problem if home inspectors became lodged in small places.

In Real Living’s advice on finding a good inspector….they say:

And if the inspection unearths catastrophic problems that can’t be resolved to your satisfaction, Real Living’s purchase agreement protects your interests.

As Zeitsman said: “The best inspector is not necessarily the one that never finds a problem so all of the deals close.” Lots of good advice about the home inspection process from Real Living but no mention of small shoulders….

I have a list of home inspection companies on my website

Animal, vegtable or mineral?

Habitat Hollow at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has year round green gardening tips on their website:

“Whether the sun is shining or snow is flying there are always gardening tasks to perform! Be a green gardener and make your yard a friendly place for wildlife with Habitat Hollows tips and projects.”

Saturday, April 21 - Bodhi’s Earth Day Celebration

“Celebrate Bodhi’s third birthday while learning what you can do to help the earth!”

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