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When Fish Fly

Pike Place Fish is a major tourist attraction in Seattle.  Fishmongers skillfully toss a purchased fish from the front display  to the back side of the counter.  Crowds gather and cheer.  It’s quite a show and is often on TV for local interest on national broadcasts of a major sports events. According to the Seattle Times,  these [...]

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Metric to Measure Lameness

Put any variation of the word lame in a headline and I can’t pass it up:  ‘Tumblarity’ A Metric to Measure Lameness on Tumblr Microblogging platform and lazy book deal factory Tumblr introduced a “feature” yesterday called Tumblarity, a single convenient number that lets users know exactly how many terrible blogs are better than theirs. Alas, my interest in [...]

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Cyberspies! Hackers! Russians! Chinese! Oh My!

I’m a sucker for a story that uses the words “spies,” “hackers,” “Chinese” and “Russian” in the same article. The WSJ ran an interesting article about cyberspies penetrating our electrical grid (despite the fact that the article did not live up to its alarmist headline “Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies.” Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. [...]

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Why Salmonella Recalled Products Still On Store Shelves?

Why is a local upscale grocery store still selling products that are on the FDA’s expanded list of recalled products for salmonella?  Even after I pointed out the problem?  Likely not grubbing for profits.  I’m guessing it is confusion over the list of recalled products. That list grew fast and kept changing as supply chains were [...]

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Hurray for Jon Stewart for Taking on CNBC

Hurray for  Jon Stewart, comedian who has emarged as the best journalist around after taking on CNBC business cable channel.  Traditionally trained journalists have been throwing “fat pitches” — easy to hit baseballs served up to a batter to blast out of the park for a home run.  Stewart, thank goodness, asked tough questions. I like the U.K. [...]

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Oopsie Microsoft Overpays Severance

Microsoft overpaid severance to some of the workers it recently laid off.  Now it wants the extra money back. This letter is to inform you that an inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment of severance pay by Microsoft. We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to you Some [...]

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Super Bowl Euphemisms Time of Year

Super Bowl. Super Bowl. Super Bowl. There I said it: “Super Bowl!”  Ha. The NFL so closely restricts the use of the words Super Bowl that companies resort to using euphemisms in place of the real words “Super Bowl.” Wikipedia notes that one use of euphemism is “to avoid revealing secret, holy, or sacred names to the uninitiated.”  In [...]

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Bailout Bowl – Football Bowl Games Sponsored by Bailout Recipients

Tax dollars have been hard at work  play.  Some of those high profile sponsors of college football bowl games were big recipients of TARP bailout money.  Who is enriched? Follow a simplified money trail.  Your tax dollars … to the government … to banks in the form of a bailout … to ad agencies … to [...]

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E-Commerce Sites That Close During the Night

 I do my Christmas shopping online while the rest of the household sleeps and the house is quiet.  Now, it’s 1:15 am. I need a gift for my dad.  A HomeDepot gift card would be just the thing.   He really would like it. It’s not just me being lame.  He’s that kind of dad, a real [...]

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Feeling the Pain

Lehman No. 2 Joe Gregory Lays Off Household Staff of 29 and won’t be taking the private helicopter or seaplane to work.  

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