Category: Background
03/01/10
Girl Scout Cookies Getting 'Toyotaed'
It's Girl Scout Cookie season. If you like Thin Mints - as I do - and want them during the off season, Keebler makes a similar product, the Fudge Shoppe Grasshopper mints. Now the news is telling us that - just like no one expected Toyota to have safet… more »
01/14/10
It's been quite a year
I thought that maybe 2007 - when I moved out on my own for essentially the first time - or maybe 2008 when I had to move a second time, would be big years for me, but I think 2009 was the biggest.
I moved, ended up in a place that was foreclosed, had… more »
08/21/09
I is now officially a member of the homeless
On June 28, the mortgage company got an "order of posession" (the equivalent of a court-ordered eviction) for the property I was living at and was paying rent until the landlord got foreclosed upon, whereupon I was then paying utilities and repairs on th… more »
07/31/09
Lexmark isn't as expensive as I thought it was
I decided to split this entry off from the one about the Office Max catalog as I realized this is really a totally separate article.
Looking at the Office Max catalog, I see that they are selling Lexmark laser printers, basically at the typical full p… more »
07/30/09
Esperanto: A solution in search of a problem
There are some people who "complain" about how the invented language Esperanto never took off despite the supposed advantages that it provides over other existing languages.
I can, to some extent, agree with that point. I am a native (and exclusive)… more »
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