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News and goings on.
In having lousy drivers, that is.
Not surprisingly, Greensboro came in #97 out of 100 cities when it came to good drivers. I’ve known for a long time that the drivers around here are just bad. Tailgating, no signals, running red lights, speeding, ignoring lane markings, it’s all normal around here. It’s amazing that car insurance is as cheap as it is.
The best cities? Des Moines, IA; Jersey City, NJ; and New York City.
Or get attacked, I guess…
Susan forwarded this bizarre story from CNN on to me today.
A panda was found in a fight, it ended up losing part of a limb. So doctors in China want to help the panda by giving it an artificial limb.
There’s at least four disturbing things I’ve seen so far…
As I was looking at the Google Zeitgeist for 2006, I was saddened to learn that the most popular search term was for something I had never heard of. (It’s bebo, a site like myspace.)
After looking at that, I thought of looking at some of the searches on Google that brought people here. Here’s a few of the search terms that somehow landed someone here:
Well, sort of.
If you’re on the Outer Banks, and don’t mind going to the beach to pick some up. A container on a ship fell off, and the Doritos washed ashore.
Now I’ve got a few questions.
My favorite part of the article:
David Dixon, an Avon attorney and amateur videoÂgrapher, wasted no time in taking video footage to make a 30-second commercial. Doritos is running a promotion that invites fans to post their own homemade commercials
It’s probably not the kind of publicity they are looking for.
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It’s official. We’ve known for over a month now that Sharon was pregnant, but have sat on the news until we went to the doctor for an ultrasound to make sure everything looked okay. Sharon went to the doctor today for an ultrasound, everything looked fine, and she’s nine weeks along. The due date is tentatively set for July 3, 2007, but with the issues that came up with Julia, we’ll be scheduling a c-section a week or two before that.
Ideally, we wanted a little bit more time between having kids. There will only be about 17.5 months between and we would have liked it closer to two or two and a half years. This still works, at least they won’t be several years apart.
So here’s to starting off another baby on this site. I hope I still have time for writing to this site after July…
It’s a little bit dated, but I wanted to throw it out there anyway. I used one of those touchscreen voting machines last Tuesday, and it went incredibly smoothly. While I was making my selections, there was a roll of paper behind plexiglass on the left side that would print every choice I made.
So that was that. No controversy, no nothing, just a very orderly process. Hope it’s like that the next time around.
[tags]Election, Voting, Touchscreen[/tags]
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Christmas Already?
I ran across an article about a mall in Chicago that is all decked out in it’s Christmas stuff. Wal-Mart has decided to start cutting prices on all sort of junk already. (I still wouldn’t go there, regardless of the sales.)
Today, we shopped at Target, and the Christmas section was already full of stuff. In fact, it was crowding in on the Halloween stuff over a week ago. Then at Office Depot (side note, they have a 50 pack of DVD+R and DVD-R for only $13, it’s a great deal!) the Christmas music was already playing. We’ve even seen the Christmas tree places starting to set up their shops. At least they know when to start selling trees.
Is it just me, or did [tag]Christmas[/tag] start way too early this year? I fear that people will just be sick of it when we finally do get there, two months from now. I’m perfectly content with waiting until the day after Thanksgiving to start the season, and have a month-long sprint to the big day, instead of this two month marathon.
There might be one upside though. If they are cutting prices this much already, just wait for the sales that we are bound to see in the coming weeks.
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Spammers in Greensboro
Earlier this week, I ran across an article where someone in Greensboro was sending out spam messages from a local cafe.
I didn’t necessarily find that the interesting part, but the article itself. It seems to assume the reader has almost no knowledge of many basic principles. Examples: it explains what spam is, that spam is annoying, and that Wi-Fi lets you “tap the Internet without wires.” I guess I figured that anyone reading the article would know about that.
One last thing I took away. The owner thinks the spammer was up to mischief. I disagree. They saw an opportunity to send millions of messages without paying for the bandwidth and they took advantage of the situation. No mischief there, just pure greed.
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Oil Cheaper Than Coke?
An oil exec claims that oil is cheaper than Coke.
So?
Oil is cheaper than a lot of things. Like a house, or a car, or bottled water. Well, fancy bottled water. Maybe it’s even cheaper than Pepsi.
I see an important distinction between Oil and Coke. I don’t have to (and I don’t) drink Coke, or any sort of soda for that matter. If I want to work, I need to drive to work. And since nearly every car out there runs on some sort of petroleum, I have to buy gas.
Statements like these just attempt to confuse the matter. But in reality, it makes the exec look quite foolish.
[tags]Oil, Coke, Coca-Cola[/tags]
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