What does 180 bucks buy these days?
How about a 22-inch monitor? Perhaps, 100 plum tree seedlings or a single mother, 4 rabbits and rabbit feed for 3 months plus transportation to sell rabbits at market in Butembo. If you know someone who lives in New Hamsphire, you could buy him or her an hour of […]
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Feb
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Feb
We’ve never been real good with numbers but the way we figure it, 220 (teams) multiplied by 15 (players per squad) equals 3,300. Add to that 220 (teams) multplied by two (parents per player), which is 440, and you get 3,740 (people).
Roughly speaking, that’s the combined total of players, coaches and parents who will be […]
11
Feb
Scanning the fishwrapper last week, we found this bit of local color printed three pages deep above the fold. Monday, February 4, 2008 must have been a slow news day for this thing to make it past the local section, yet we haven’t been able to stop mulling it and we think we’ve finally figured […]
6
Feb
We’re over this whole recession debate.
Every business guru with an opinion and a hole to express it seems obliged to answer whether we are, are not, or soon will be in a recession. As debates go, this one is strictly between people with incomes immune to economic gravity. That would include media mavens and business […]
30
Jan
We appreciate things that simultaneously make us feel smart and obscure tangible evidence of the reality that we really aren’t.
Example: KeePass Password Safe.
Many thanks to Rich Niejelski at RoyalSaltMedia for tipping us off to this invention. He always finds cool stuff.
KeePass lets you stop worrying about remembering a different blasted password for every login in your life or, conversely, worrying that […]