Archive for February, 2009
While driving past the liquore store earlier, I found the sign out front interesting:
Liquor Depot Drive Thru Now Open We Cash Pay-Govt Checks
Which leaves me a couple of questions:
Why should a liquor store need a drive thru window? Is it really a good idea to have a liquor store cashing paychecks?
One way to judge how popular an application is on OSX is whether Apple goes out of their way to let you know there are problems it when they release new software. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was a technote regarding the Safari 4 Beta: Mail may unexpectedly quit with Safari [...]
If you get a bill for a service you are not paying for, you should contest the charge immediately.
So I went back and checked my records, and found I’d been charged for at least as far back as a year (I was in the bummer tent after that, so I didn’t look further.)
How [...]
There was something interesting in the president’s speech to congress last night:
I will do whatever it takes to help the family that has saved and still can’t get a mortgage. It’s about helping people. Because when credit is available again, that young family can finally buy a new home.
I find this interesting, because [...]
My workplace is fielding a team for Race for the Cure coming up later this year. One employee volunteer also noted in a company email newsletter that we could also “’sleep in for the cure’ by pledging support for the team, but not attending on race day”.
That is my kind of race.
When we kicked off a proposal at work a few weeks ago, the head of the division was invited, and he is serious about winning:
It’s not just about writing a good proposal. It’s about crushing the the competition.
Excellent.
Question: Do you think teachers should be given guidelines for homework assignments?
I think most teachers have enough sense to follow the guidelines that had been accepted by the school board–10 minutes per night per grade. I just don’t think most students have the capacity to actually do the work. Like the example cited in the [...]
I am almost finished reading Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan (which I downloaded free a while back). I won’t say it has been a waste of time, but there is nothing really new in the book. Here is my summary of the valuable information found in the book:
Reality has changed. It is all of our [...]
When I first heard a rumor that Tricon (owner of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC) was changing it’s name to “YumWorks”, I thought that was a horrible name. Then they came out with the announment changing their name to “Yum! Brands” I thought, “Yeah, YumWorks sounded pretty good.”
I’ve been meaning to write about my feelings on the current real estate “crisis” for a while, but I think what I have to say is better summed up by Suze Orman in her 2009 Action Plan (which I downloaded free a while back):
I have a moral problem with bailing out homeowners and [...]