Archive for 2003
Baptist Hospital East in Louisville, KY has a billboard that states simply: “Friendly operators are standing by.” Now that’s funny.
In Woburn, MA there is a car dealership. Lawless Chrysler. Like many car dealerships they give out license plate holder with their name on it. An like many other states, Massachusetts has part of it’s state motto on the license plate. So, nowing the status of Massachusetts drivers it was no small surprise to look [...]
In the cafeteria at work there are several TVs which play CNN thoughout the day. I figured they had a satelite feed into the building. Nope. It’s streaming through Windows Media Player. I noticed this today when the TVs weren’t playing…and the WiMP window was instead, with an error message on the screen with the [...]
According to a report on the radio: 25% of Massachusetts Tourism occurs during the Autumn months. Next up: researchers amazed that 25% of days in year appear during the Autumn months.
I stopped at Circuit City on the way home from work to take advantage of their 110% Primematch Guarantee. Staples advertised the same 25 disc Memorex 4x DVD-R media I had bought a week earlier for $20 less. The first Customer Service person I talked to said no, they were not the same item. (The [...]
Sometimes spammers make me laugh. Like this selection from RBC Offers for LogoSaur: Many companies brand their email solicitations as Opt-in. However, RBCOffers believes in true permission-based marketing. When a subscriber joins our network and provides us with his/her demographics and areas of interest, it’s just the beginning of our Opt-in process. The second step [...]
As I was looking for an article to link to Dat Phan, I found an site on Asian American Empowerment which had comments on an article about Dat Phan winning Last Comic Standing. The comments pissed me off enough to take the time to create an account just so I could post a reply. Posters [...]
When my sister visited Maine a few years ago (she was working at a summer camp) she called the rotary (or round-about, if you prefer) the spawn of satan. And she is probably right. If people a not paying attention the rotary can become a very dangerous place to be. Since I grew up in [...]
I have been watching all of the Last Comic Standing episodes (on NBC) and have to say that the showdown at the end of the series was a big letdown from the rest. Only Ralphie May seemed to come to win. Most of the rest I would have turned off just a couple minutes into [...]
Quite often I hear that motorcyclists don’t get respect on America’s highways. Perhaps it is because many of their bretheren don’t deserve respect on the highway. I was on my way to work today and stuck in a 6 mile backup (for an accident up the road), but the only two cyclists I saw concerned. [...]