Entries from September 2007

On healthcare

Posted 09/30/07

So I’m learning first hand what a frakking mess the American health-insurance situation is. And I’m not just talking about [...]

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Things to say in an elevator

Posted 09/27/07

When you’re riding in an elevator (or anything that has people coming and going), it’s inevitable that you’ll hear chunks [...]

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Nurses you’re glad you don’t have

Posted 09/26/07

The title of the entry from VaDocWatch says it all: “If you puke again, you’ll have to eat it.”

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Quick question about bullets and golf balls

Posted 09/26/07

For you physics people (or inventors): If a golf ball flies farther because it’s dimpled, why don’t bullets and hunting [...]

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More on the blog redesign

Posted 09/25/07

A little thanks, a few changes, some background, and some waxing technological. First, thanks for all the suggestions; keep ‘em [...]

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Ch-ch-ch-changes

Posted 09/25/07

I finally got the redone site up. Hope you like it. Things are probably still broken, but it’s about 2 [...]

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It’s not an overreaction…

Posted 09/22/07

…it’s — oh, wait, it is an overreaction. Yet another one from America’s screwed up public schools. From the Northwest [...]

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More packaging nightmares

Posted 09/21/07

I wrote a while ago about how Amazon.com shipped me 18 towels in 18 separate boxes. Now comes another horseman [...]

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A commercial I would do #2

Posted 09/21/07

The other idea I had was for Heinz Ketchup. You know how Hallmark had a brilliant marketing campaign a long [...]

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A commercial I would do

Posted 09/21/07

Have you ever gotten an idea for a commercial that you know would do wonders for the product? Me, too. [...]

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Government database of Americans’ travel is compromised

Posted 09/21/07

If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear, right? Ha. “Federal Agent Indicted For Using Homeland Security [...]

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The stupidly simple reason not to buy books from Amazon.com

Posted 09/20/07

One of these days I’ll go off yet again on how the homogenization of America is ruining so much. But [...]

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Living with obesity

Posted 09/18/07

My wife bought us a new bathroom scale, and it came with one of those body mass index charts that [...]

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Nicknames that fit

Posted 09/18/07

Hmm, here’s an interesting story… bizarre kidnapping, three men charged, mm-hmm… [keeps reading] Oh, “Greco said one of the men [...]

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A different plan for spam

Posted 09/18/07

I have a couple of pretty decent spam filters at work, and they catch about 90-someodd percent of what comes [...]

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Shibakou finally beaten

Posted 09/15/07

I finally won this stupid “Grow” game. I just needed to share that. If you have no clue what I [...]

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Feed not working

Posted 09/14/07

My RSS isn’t RSSing. Don’t know why. If you care, it’ll be fixed soon, I hope. Update: Fixed. Apparently it [...]

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Newspapers, competition, and the bright future

Posted 09/13/07

Newspapers, the conventional wisdom goes, are a dying breed — dying in the face of competition from the Internet (e.g., [...]

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Offensive? So what?

Posted 09/13/07

I’m offended! I’m offended! It’s the rallying cry of the whiny set. Two news stories of note today. First, Virginia [...]

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Too much time on your hands

Posted 09/11/07

Some people have it.

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