Black History Month Facts

Here’s something for the ‘SC folks.  I’m pretty sure this is all right.

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“Cheap” Drink

If you’re addicted to Starbucks, maybe you should buy a share of Starbucks.  They send out a free drink coupon to their shareholders so buying 1 share might be worth it if you plan on holding the share for more than 6 years (or you could buy a share before they send out the materials [...]

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RSS

I finally figured out what the heck RSS is.  And since Yahoo!Mail supports RSS, I’m having a blast with it.  I was able to get rid of some bookmarks and it’s really a timesaver to read up on blogs when you know there’s something new to read.  So far, it’s been wordpress/typepad blogs & my [...]

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My Semi-MacGyver Moment

Trying my bit to save the environment, I attempted to re-format a dvd.  What I didn’t do was take off the post-it that marked it as a dud dvd.  Everything seemed to be going okay until I heard some weird hissing noise and the disc drive stopped.  The disc ejected and the disc didn’t have [...]

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Inflation (not that Bernanke cares!)

My expensive brownies went better than I expected (according to people who ate them besides me) so I thought maybe I should keep making them until I use up all the muffin liners (which is about 40 liners now).  What I hadn’t count on was the price of cocoa being so high.  The previous $3.49 came [...]

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Sun madness

Check out this story about neighbors up in the Bay Area.  It’s tress vs. sun.
And this editorial from LAT about the skirmish:
But it seems that neighbors, even hemp-wearing ones, will always having trouble mending fences.
I was expecting some kind of a snarky editorial about this case but can anyone say people in Sunnyvale are wearing [...]

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Giving Money Away, Not!

Not something I advocate under any circumstance but a few weeks ago, I seriously contemplated giving money to the Obama campaign after CA went to HRC.  Then, cooler heads prevailed, as my rough 2007 tax filing showed that I would be forking over $ to US on 4/15/2008.  I figure that my taxes, $ would be [...]

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Subway Manners

I came across this post on WSJ about how hard it is for pregnant women to get seats in US subways/trains and it was illuminating to read how ill-mannered Americans are from the comments.

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Waiting, part II

Who knew people conduct job interviews on weekends?  Actually, I take this back as I do remember going on an interview on a Saturday many moons ago…and the interview was @ a hotel.  Nothing weird happened, though I didn’t get the job.
Here’s evidence of more job interviews @ the local Coffee Bean this weekend.  Nothing [...]

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Expensive Brownie

At least I think it’s expensive.  I recently spent a tidy sum on an assortment of tea and in order to accomodate the large quantity of tea now at hand, I foraged around for containers. (I don’t consider this purchase as breaking my NYR as the item is edible and is slowly thrown away everyday.  Also, [...]

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