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March 30, 2008
Traveling to China on business anytime soon and looking for a neat-o conversation starter for use between the afternoon meetings and drunk in the hotel? Here you go.
China is going to have trouble in the coming years during this Chinese Century™®©. There are a large number of reasons (1.4 billion to be exact); and […]
March 28, 2008
Hey, you, walking ahead of me in the parking lot. Don’t hold that door.
You see, at this point I’m JUST far enough away from the parking lot door but not THAT close that when you stop at the door to hold it open for me I instantly feel guilty about it and have kind of […]
March 27, 2008
We were talking with a friend the other day who just happens to have a last name that starts with a letter that occurs very late in the alphabet. She was complaining that her entire life she’s had to be last “even when it comes to jobs. I bet I get shafted because by the […]
March 26, 2008
Hey, did you hear that Wal-Mart is trying to murder some brain-damaged woman?
Seriously though, Wal-Mart won a suit to recoup health care payments it made to a woman who was hit by a truck. As she settled with the truck’s insurance company, Wal-Mart requested, and was rightly awarded the payments it had made to her. […]
March 25, 2008
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JetBlue has revealed that they will be adding extra-legroom rows to their flights to accommodate taller passengers. The seats will add four inches (from 34” to 38”) and be available for approximately $40RT.
If you’re a taller fellow like myself then this is great news. For flights over a couple hours I would gladly pay a […]
March 24, 2008
How many of you like me? I mean, really, really like me? ‘Cause all I need is a thousand.
At least that’s according to Kevin Kelly. And after reading his long but well-reasoned explanation 1,000 True Fans I’m inclined to agree with him.
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March 23, 2008
Ok, so they’re telling me that the economy is, like, the worst economy ever in the history of time and space and we’re all gonna’ die from like, some blood-borne sub-prime thing and I know it’s all true because the AP is reporting that we’re all moving back in with our parents. Yeah, even the […]
March 21, 2008
Saturday, April 22, is World Water Day, “an international day of observance and action to draw attention to the plight of those without access to safe drinking water.” This year’s theme, Sanitation!
NPR of course has been all up in the hizzat this week about it with Science Froday host Ira Flatow quite literally, maybe, peeing […]
Hi there. You know it’s been a hard Friday for me and I’m a little stressed out and I don’t want to come across as a jerk or even worse, conceited, but… look, let’s be rational about the free food that’s in the kitchen.
I know you don’t all make king’s ransoms. I don’t. And I […]
