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UPS Sure as Hell Doesn’t Want My Business
Not if they’re going to make shipping a package online so flaming impossible. I used to have a UPS account years ago, but apparently they purge them after a year of inactivity. So I went to their...
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The 1967 Aftra Strike
Images below found in Stand By! – February/March 1967. My mother can be seen in the first picture at top right, second from left. Anchors Away: Huntley, Brinkley, and Cronkite and the 1967 AFTRA Strike...
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Am I Charlie? Or am I just paying lip service?
“The Untouchables 2″ – You mustn’t mock us! In light of the recent tragedy in Paris at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a discussion sprung up on Facebook when a friend of mine, in reference to this...
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The Myth of “Administrative Leave”
Every time I see an article posted about bad police behavior, someone chimes in about the officer being given “paid vacation” for his or her transgression. It is not “paid vacation.” Below a comment...
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Sketches of Life in the Uintah Basin
Alice Bartlett Woolf, 1916-1997 Alice Bartlett Woolf, a painter, writer, master teacher, horse breaker, and story teller, was also a dear friend of my mother. While working on scanning my mother’s...
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Funniest code comments written by programmers (without the ads and commentary)
Originally found at itaxsmart. /* When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, God only knows */. /* I dedicate all this code, all my work, to my wife, Darlene, who will have to...
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Global Travel Network in Salt Lake City: Avoid these ripsters like the plague.
Around December 20th, I entered a drawing for a $2,500 mall shopping spree. Of course, I didn’t win – but what I got was a call from representatives at “Rewards Fulfillment,” letting me know “we had...
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Der German is Gebroken
I’ve written about making fun of the German language before, which included references to Fraulein Bo-peepen And More Tales Mein Grossfader Told, by Dave Morrah, and John Hulme’s Mörder Guss Reims –...
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Why tipping is a bad idea.
This will be a short post, with a good video to watch. I’ve written before about why tipping is not optional. The video below addresses that, but provides a good overview of why the example provided by...
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Passwords: Squeal like a pig!
Passwords are the bane of computer users and IT administrators, and – for the most part – an open, beckoning door to hackers, scammers, and Russian Viagra spammers. But until someone comes up with...
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The fruits of ignorance: Spell Casters
Today’s email: Good day everybody, I’m Flora from U.K. Today has being the most happiest day of my life after 6 months of sadness and sorrow without being with the one i love. I tried all my possible...
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Climate change can’t be real, the earth is so *big*!
Well, it’s not as big as all that when you look at how it’s constituted. This image shows all the earth’s water, all the fresh water, and all the water in lakes and rivers represented as spheres...
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How to save money – in 1949
This ad featuring artwork from Chic Young, the creator of “Blondie,” appeared in a 1949 edition of “Theatre Arts” magazine. Despite fluctuating interest rates, regular savings plus compound interest...
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Scam: “Edmond Homo Benjamin”
OK, this one made me laugh. Subject: Attn;My Dear, From: “Mr. Jerry Moore.” <western.unionservice13@gmail.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Attn;My Dear, I write to inform you that we already...
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That’s No Rebate
The world is a big place, and it has gotten big enough that many unscrupulous companies have realized that they can do business in an unethical way, pay out significant settlements to regulators, and...
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Tutpoxy (or, never give a repair job to an incompetent)
If you’re not familiar with the infamous attempt at restoration of a 19th-century fresco by Spanish artist Elias Garcia Martinez, done by an elderly woman at the the church of Santuario de...
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Beware the Merchant Cash Advance
I had a missed call today from some number in Florida – I assumed it was from “Kelly from Credit Card Services,” since I get a couple of those each day (and I wish that our legislators could clamp...
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Never “Verify your account” as the result of an email.
Emails of this nature are almost guaranteed scams. If you click one of the login links, you are taken to this URL: http://www.lazershow.ind.br/assinaturas/paypal/b0ebd1cd978575dfe45e7f31c20b2080/...
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It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
In the moving and beautiful video below, Julia Roberts voices Mother Nature and reminds us that from the point of view of the earth, we as humans are not needed. Humon, the pen-name of the artist who...
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No Hamburger Tuesday.
I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. But during WW 1 and WW 2, Tuesday was a day of rationing. I originally thought this sign had something to do with Thimble Theatre, but it turns...
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