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Comment on Chick-Fil-A Labor Day Giveaway: FAIL! by knutson

knutson — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:51:12 +0000

Michelle,
Got my wad o’ coupons and then systematically gave them away to students as little thank you’s or rewards. I personally never ate one of the free sandwiches, but the report is that they did.

Comment on Chick-Fil-A Labor Day Giveaway: FAIL! by Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:01:17 +0000

So Chick-fil-A is at it again. They are giving away free spicy chicken sandwiches this week, however you must have an appointment time and a a personalize coupon.

I signed up for mine on May 21st for a June 1st time slot of course they sent the confirmation email with a link to my coupon. The coupon however doesn’t show up when you click the link. I’ve tried both mozilla and IE to no avail. I’ve also checked out the coupon page’s html coding and do see there should be something there but am not having any luck forcing the push on the page.

Ah well, no surprises here.

Did you ever get your free sandwiches?

Comment on CBC Radio — Ideas: How to Think About Science by William Tomlinson

William Tomlinson — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:04:40 +0000

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Comment on iPhone screen capture by Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:26:06 +0000

I’m drooling, both over iPhone coolness and over Nic’s deliciousness.

Comment on All your blog spam are belong to us… by Krit

Krit — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:59:26 +0000

I got one that said “Howdy, Jumper can fly to home.” I’m not sure what it meant, but it made me smile.

Comment on Bose QuietComfort 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones by hillary emmanuel

hillary emmanuel — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:46:31 +0000

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Comment on Text messaging is not the devil by Christian Bird

Christian Bird — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:01:33 +0000

I totally agree with your post. Since my extended fam has gotten on the texting bandwagon (and facebook) we’ve become closer and more aware of what everyone is doing. I get at least two to three texts a day from fam members whereas I rarely ever called my cousins or even my sister on a regular basis. Texting can be less intrusive and less time demanding, but like most things, can be bad if abused. But it’s been good for our fam.

Comment on All your blog spam are belong to us… by Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:30:32 +0000

I get loads of beautiful spam since one of the most common 419 emails was from a fake person sharing my name. Sometime I ought to go through my Gmail spam folder and see what gems I can find from my scammer compadres

Comment on Chick-Fil-A Labor Day Giveaway: FAIL! by Halie Decker

Halie Decker — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:24:03 +0000

i actually work at a chick-fil-a and we didnt run into this sort of problem, our management would have never sold you chicken sandwhiches but said we were out of the free ones. i agree that is very ridiculous, we gave plenty of free chicken out thast day and im sure if we ran out of the sandwhiches we would have given away other products. i totally agree that it was a stupid part on the managers there.

Comment on Capitalism: Fail? by David

David — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:57:48 +0000

I think what we’ve seen is more a failure of the government trying to regulate capitalism more than a failure of capitalism itself. Freddie and Fannie are a big portion of what got us into this mess. And bailing out industries short-circuits the corrections in the markets.

Of course, allowing peoples’ retirement savings to be wiped out is not politically popular. Hard to get re-elected on that platform. But is that a failure of capitalism, or a failure of our government to allow capitalism to work?

I’ve never seen pure capitalism in my lifetime. And I doubt I will. I don’t think government interference will end any time soon.