Wise Words:
When life gives you lemons -- PUCKER UP!
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Monday, August 25, 2003
Just more proof that the Europeans really know how to live:
http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/72/81854.htm
20:52
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
More afterthoughts, this time about WMT:
I know that like Office Depot, WMT too gives to charity... even giving more, monetarily speaking. But to me it seems that the "low price leader" needs to donate to help keep its image clean, what with all the sexual harassment and abuse cases the company has seen in its history. Now of course the other big companies out there have their share of shame; I'm sure they have bad records somewhat, somewhere, somehow -- but none so much as the monster of them all. Trust me, I know that that company has seen its days in court... I would link up to all those articles and sites I found one day, seeing what dirt I could dig up on that pesky yellow smiley. One wonders if it would've had so many problems if it had kept itself small, instead of trampling throughout the country, leaving footprints of pavement and empty stadiums in its wake.
A bona fide post coming soon...
(Before I forget: I found this link mignon and this one, ridiculus.
Et Harrius Potter?!!!
Dorkus sum. So sue me.)
22:16
Monday, August 18, 2003
An appendix to my most recent substantial post:
I would very much like to give this blog a face-lift; hopefully, I will do so someday. During His Hineyness' visit over Christmas break this past year (see December 22 posting for details), His Royal Pain in the Butt decided to pester my poor PC with a stack of CDs he had brought down with him (his electronic treasure trove, no doubt), stuffing them into the E: drive as he would my parents with his homemade treats (if he didn't cook so poorly). Among the many programs he installed on my baby -- none of which I actually use, may I add -- is Macromedia Fireworks, a program I can use to schnazz up the website with some eye-catching graphics.
Even if not, I have a trial software copy of Dreamweaver somewhere among my own data CD collection... How I found and downloaded it, I'll never know.
Speaking of CDs: I'd like to say I appreciate the alternative Office Depot provides next to the irrevocably present, undeniably economy-destroying Mart. (I'm sure you know which megaMart I mean.) I stopped by OD this afternoon to get some blank CDs, hoping that they would have a back-to-school sale on them. Not only did they have a 2-for-1 deal on some already rather inexpensive discs (read: discs that won't work, that'll spend their lives as coasters on the desk), but they also support local schools. When the check-out clerk (the only one in the entire store, I may add; considering how few customers were there, it's no wonder the world is unemployed these days) finished ringing up my items, she proceeded to ask me, in that quiet, barely-comprehensible-over-the-odd-squeak-of-a-shopping-cart voice of hers (and I quote):
"And what local school would you like us to donate five percent of our earnings to?"
I had no idea that Office Depot does that; it reminded me of a program some grocery stores have (had?) in which they too would donate money to schools. This clinches it, folks: if I need to buy something office-related, I'm bypassing that freakish yellow face with its eternally deceiving smile.
I could go on about WMT (recognize those stock symbols, anyone?) -- I could even talk about my first (and hopefully only) time in the brand new Supercenter on this side of town, the very same one that bulldozed both trees and businesses to make its way there. But I think I've blogged enough for one day.
Besides, today has been all right and I don't want to end up fuming while the night is still young...
19:27
Saturday, August 16, 2003
Alice Dwight Cooter Pedrolina Scarlett Temperance Yekaterina DuBois reminds me of
Sophia Agrippina Lorraine Felicity Saffron Humphries Mahler
and I wonder what happened to her, after buying bottles of milk from the Wildcat Land Union Cafe explicitly to feed her. I remember seeing a few black strays senior year...
20:16
OK, this blog was getting a face-lift. I know now that my archives didn't exactly go anywhere, just that dear ol' Blogger chose to delete my archive links when I played around with the template. Ya see, what happened that fateful day was that I got bored and decided to have a little fun with the template, and from there one thing led to another, with one new idea birthing a newer one until I had gone so far as to even change the address of the page. (No, I wasn't on hiatus, and if I was I most likely would've let you know -- that's my style, ain't it?) But now, things are pretty much back to normal.
Speaking of normality... although the lack of electricity in the Northeast is nothing short of terrible, at least it reminds the rest of the country something: without wheels, we can walk. A good thing to remember when we seem to deem the automobile a necessity.
Oh yes, and it was nice that people remembered to be courteous, kind and generous as they passed each other on the highways and when they plopped onto the sidewalks for the night.
(I also liked how the news networks made a point to show that the "Blackout of 2003" would be an uncommon affair in other parts of the world. They specifically looked at Iraq -- I'm guessing because reporters were already there.)
And another thing about this "Blackout of 2003" -- even without the air conditioning, the mass transit, the artificial light, isn't it good to have a day off from work?
But anyway... good luck, my Big Apple buddies. Hope you survive the hikes home.
19:42
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