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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.

Comment on Capitalism: Fail? by knutson

knutson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:47:30 +0000

Ok, fair is fair… If you’re going to claim that Ahmadinejad and Michael Moore make good points in dismissing capitalism, you have to at least identify what those good points are…

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

Nikki — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:41:58 +0000

Those are classic! Gotta love the funny translations.

Comment on Capitalism: Fail? by hm. . .

hm. . . — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:53:05 +0000

This is probably why you don’t post about politics. Although you should. But regardless, here we go:

Two quotes from the articles that you circled:

“Ahmadinejad, wearing a dark suit and an open-necked shirt, took aim at unbridled capitalism for bringing about the conditions that have led to the world economic crisis.”

“King: Are you saying capitalism is a failure?

Moore: Yes. Capitalism. Yes. Well, I don’t have to say it. Capitalism, in the last year, has proven that it’s failed. All the basic tenets of what we’ve talked about the free market, about free enterprise and competition just completely fell apart. As soon as they lost, essentially, our money, they came running to the federal government for a bailout — for welfare, for socialism. And I thought the basic principle of capitalism was that it’s a sink-or-swim situation. And those who do well, the cream rises to the top and, you know, those who invest their money wrongly or, you know, don’t run their business the right way, then they don’t do well.

And if you run your business the wrong way, where does it say that you or I or anybody watching this has to bail them out?

I understand why everybody seemed to get behind it, because a lot of people were afraid, because these people down on Wall Street had taken our money and made bets with it. I mean, they essentially created this invisible virtual casino with people’s money — people’s pension funds, people’s 401(k)s. They took this money and they made bets. And then they made bets on the bets. And then they took out insurance policies on the bets. And then they took out insurance against the insurance — the credit default swaps.”

While not an Ahmadinejad fan and not a very big Michael Moore fan, I think they make good points.