| a dried rose in the parkinglot |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|09:09 pm] |
I found this really pretty dried out rose sitting in the middle of a Target parking lot. It was very nicely intact! I'm very sorry to say that by the time I'd gotten home many hours later most of the petals had fallen off (I realize now I should have left it in the car), but I had them all so I put them all together and tacked the whole thing to my wall. :)
Luckily I took a picture before I put it in my messenger bag. Which I still regret greatly.
This picture is actually taken once I picked it up, and I was inside. I didn't take one in the parking lot for various reasons.
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[Jul. 12th, 2009|06:26 am] |
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found on 3rd and 's' streets in sac. i hit a sign, and when i got out to retrieve it, this was on the ground nearby. its a toolbox lid or something. the back says 'made in germany'. EDITED location. it was found in 95818. i am now in 43214. |
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| Let's talk about student loans. |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|01:07 pm] |
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At long last, we stand on the cusp of genuine accomplishment: Congress stands ready to abolish the Federally Funded Education Lending program, or FFEL. With its elimination, we will with the stroke of a pen delete a wasteful, ridiculous program that has since its inception confused students, alternatingly hamstrung and corrupted schools, and cost taxpayers more than $15 billion every year.
Needless to say, the banks that profit from FFEL are upset. Why wouldn't they? Under FFEL, they make loans using guaranteed government funds with zero risk, sell the loans to the Treasury, and take a cut of each loan processed. But how does this help students? So-called "competition" on loans with identical terms? The only competition is marketing to see who scoops up the fees that students pay.
But the cost to students of that "competition" is plenty high. Beyond actual cost - FFEL loans have higher fees, and at least on GradPLUS loans also higher interest rates - the mere existence of FFEL prevents school financial aid offices from being able to provide exact guidance on the loan process (because every lender has its own). In contrast, at schools that use the government Direct Loan programs, everthing is exact, simple, and transparent. It's also cheaper, for students and taxpayers.
Don't believe the frantic propaganda the banks are running. FFEL is and has always been a bad deal, for everyone but the bankers, and they are the last people we should be subsidizing. |
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[Jul. 8th, 2009|09:45 am] |
One of the women I work with is a former language arts teacher, which is why I was pretty surprised when she posed the following question:
"What's an ISBN? Do we use those?"
Of course, the real kicker is that we work for a publisher. Our company's primary goal is to create and sell books.
And she's a high-ranking sales rep for the company. |
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| AM/FM Complications |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|04:43 pm] |
Some time ago I found myself discussing music with an Australian friend via one internet messenger or another. Eventually the conversation slipped to Triple J's Hottest 100 countdown and how she had been listening to it earlier. I tell her that I had been as well. It is perhaps my own fault for not mentioning that I was listening online, but being that she knew I was an American and had not traveled to Australia I can find no excuse for the following exchange.
Her: You've been listening to Triple J?
Me: a little bit earlier.
Her: Oooh, did you buy an Aussie radio on eBay?
....because that's exactly how radios work. And I suppose if I bought an English television set I'd receive all the BBC channels by default. |
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| Sheep |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|08:25 pm] |
Found today in the doctor's surgery car park. It's about 1 inch high.
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| I guess you can't blame them for trying... |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|09:12 pm] |
"Antique" empty bottle of Hendricks Gin being sold at an antiques store
in Cambridge, MA, for about the cost of a new, full bottle. If the ploy is
successful, it pays for the seller's drinking habit as an almost neutral
buoyancy technique (minus shop fees, I guess).
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[Jul. 6th, 2009|11:34 am] |
My 15 year old daughter and I live with my mother. Recently, my daughter went for a physical and I’ve been waiting for the doctor’s office to call with results from some lab work. My daughter is starting a summer internship today (her first job). She’s a bit nervous about it so I decided to treat her to breakfast.
Now, my mother is a bit of a techno-phobe. She has a cell phone that my sister got her for emergencies but she really does not know how to use it. I still have to explain to her - every single time - how to check her voicemail. The only person she’s ever called on it is my sister. So you can imagine my surprise when my cell phone rings and it’s my mom, calling from her cell phone.
“Is there anything wrong, Mom?”
“No, but Lisa from the doctor’s office is on the phone and she needs to talk to you.”
“Ok, find out if I can call her back or you can give her my cell number.”
“That’s what I was going to do but I wanted to make sure you had your phone with you first.”
“Alright.”
There is a moment or two of silence and then…
“So, do you have your cell phone with you or not?”
No, Ma…I’m talking to you on my handy-dandy finger phone. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2009|02:16 am] |
This is a story that one of my managers told me tonight:
One of the guys had a lady come through drive-thru and order a small coffee with two creamers. So he pours the coffee and mixes te creamers into the coffee. He hands it out the window and she asks for two creamers again. He tells her that he already put two of them in the coffee. She then proceeds to tell him that the coffee is still black and points to show him. She was pointing at the lid, which is black. It took him two minutes to convince her that it was the lid and not the coffee that was black.
Is there a fast food resturant anywhere that has clear coffee lids? |
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[Jul. 4th, 2009|12:51 pm] |
When noshing on munchies, will you take the whole container, one complete portion, keep going back for little portions, or exercise self-control and put it back in the cupboard? Or other.
Do you like to keep the lights on or off, if you're in the room or out of it? |
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