Archive | March, 2005

30 March 2005 Comments Off

Pain of publicity intrudes on comfort for the dying

I just heard about this story on Air America.
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Pain of publicity intrudes on comfort for the dying
DAVID KARP and CURTIS KRUEGER
Published March 22, 2005
PINELLAS PARK – As 73-year-old Thomas Bone prepared to die from incurable cancer, he had one wish.
He did not want to die alone, his family said.
So [...]

24 March 2005 Comments Off

Wawa Irony

For those folks not in the Delaware Valley, Wawa is a chain of convenience stores that came out of a dairy near the Pennsylvania-Delaware border.
Wawa’s logo includes a Canada Goose. 

Excerpt from their website:
 Over 100 years ago, our original dairy farm was built on land located in a rural section of Pennsylvania called Wawa, which was [...]

23 March 2005 Comments Off

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Zn… Zinc You scored 33 Mass, 29 Electronegativity, 60 Metal, and 70 Radioactivity!

You have a strong sense of the communal good and you aren’t too
demanding. You know better than to mess with the powers that be. You
value being surronded by the right people, but don’t care too much
about what people beyond your [...]

23 March 2005 Comments Off

sigh

Does this need to happen?

No time to make hot tea? Take a pill
Tue Mar 22, 2:45 AM ET
JORHAT, India (AFP) – Indian scientists said they have developed a “tea pill” which can be carried in the pocket to be chewed when desired for the same refreshing effect as a freshly-brewed cuppa.
The four-member team based in [...]

22 March 2005 Comments Off

//sarcasm//

We need to have corporate sponsorship of our currency. Just imagine if Starbucks could pay the Federal government a fee to have some dollar bills were issued with a Starbucks logo in-place of Washington’s head. 
Those dollars could be treated as regualr dollars anyplace except Starbucks. Starbucks could set its own exchange rates for the StarBUCKS [...]