Merry Holidays and Happy Christmas and all that. I considered writing a really heartfelt message of peace, love and happyness (which is how Will Smith spells it, and if it’s good enough for the Fresh Prince, it’s good enough for me). I considered a message like that, but then I figured… nah. Messages like that [...]
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Random Ramblings
When is a deal a great deal? When you trample a Walmart employee to death to get it. Last year, I wrote a short piece called Black Friday: More Insane Than Ever. My chief complaints were that stores were going to be opening at 4am and that Lowe’s had their Christmas displays up in early [...]
1. For about a month or so leading up to the election, I had the graphic you see to the left in the sidebar of this site. Of course, I’m not so foolish as to believe that the tens of visitors I get on a daily basis would be influenced by it enough to change [...]
There’s a principle in poker that says it is best to determine what your opponent wants you to do, then disappoint him. This very neatly explains why Obama did not choose Hillary for his VP running mate. Simply put, the Republicans wanted Hillary.They have 16 years’ worth of material worked up on how to take [...]
I had quite a pleasant experience with Southwest Airlines today, and since it’s understandably rare that people post anything nice about the airline industry these days, I figured I’d share this. Earlier this morning I booked a flight to San Diego for a trip coming up next month. I used Southwest’s “Ding” service to get [...]
I spend a lot of time online. I wake up daily between seven and eight, and I’m usually at sitting on the couch with my MacBook Pro within 30 minutes. During the day, I alternate between work and playing with Winter (who is super interesting these days, having hit the 3 year old mark). In [...]
It’s been a while since I last updated Modest Opinions, but I’ve been swamped with getting The Big Book of Spam ready for publication (which is a lot more complicated when you throw in the website revamp that it requires and the changes to my core domain). Modest Opinions just isn’t very high-priority for me [...]
My package arrived today – January 16th. It took FedEx, one of the leaders of the shipping industry, three weeks to get a package from Dallas to Albuquerque. Pathetic. Simply pathetic.
Ordered a pizza earlier tonight. Thought this was interesting – the Specials list at the bottom of the page after logging in: Hm. I’m thinking about ordering a large one-topping pizza. I wonder how much that would cost. I can’t help but wonder how many people choose to pay the extra buck. papa johns, pizza, [...]
