It’s time for the annual “Why the fuck did I move to Boston?” snow post!
View from my apartment!
It’s so beautiful!
The tops of buildings are all white….
Heh, poor sucker…
Trying to clean off his car…
Oh, crap. I have to do that too.
Ugh….
From the front
Finally getting the door open…
Halfway done…
After this, my hands started feeling really cold, so I stopped taking pictures. But yeah, living here is “snow” good. (I’m kicking myself for that pun.)
Crocs, those ugly shoes that have even earned the hate of Maddox, have apparently worn out their welcome. Shares of Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) are giving back over 25% on weak earnings. In other words, if you bought a share of CROX yesterday, that share is now worth 75% of what you paid for it.
Of course, if you bought a pair of Crocs shoes yesterday, your life is worth about 3% of its original value. So go figure.
Turns out that there’s a sweeter reason than just “saving energy” in Congress’s move to extend Daylight Saving Time by one week:
The candy lobby also played a significant role in pushing Halloween into daylight saving time, believing that extra hour of trick-or-treating in daylight would spur more candy sales but arguing that it would decrease deaths, according to Michael Downing, the author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, an amusing book about the myths and realities behind daylight saving time.
Color me impressed. The talking M&M’s have more power than we could have ever imagined.
“When they ignore Veterans Day and Memorial Day, I think they’re telling us something about the way they view America,” said Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative website that has criticized Google’s logo decisions.
Boo hoo hoo, WorldNetDaily.com. You’d be in a position to talk if your website was full of American Flag GIFs and weeping bald eagle JPEGs. Instead, your website is full of 1997-era GIFs that just make me weep.
Sometimes I think I could be a hotshot Hollywood producer. Though I usually come to the realization that my talents would be totally worthless and wasted.
Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”. This Neanderthal thinking comes after both Jodie Foster’s The Brave One (even though she’s had big recent hits with Flightplan and Panic Room) and Nicole Kidman’s The Invasion (as if three different directors didn’t have something to do with the awfulness of the gross receipts) under-performed at the box office recently.
From Brandeis University’s Library and Technology Services:
Second, we develop the “vaporware” that allows robust and maintainable interaction between core systems like PeopleSoft, myBrandeis, library systems and others.
Phoenix is the city most at risk for identity fraud, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Their new survey shows writing a check is not safer than banking online because of a scam called “check washing.” The thief erases the ink on a check and fills in whatever he wants.
Fairly obvious, but it doesn’t mean you should never write a check. Only write checks to people and companies you trust (making a photocopy of the check if you can), and for other transactions use credit/debit cards.
If you’re making a deal with another person (say, for items from Craigslist), be sure to use cash.
From the Division Series in Major League Baseball: If the Philadelphia Phillies (playing the Colorado Rockies) and Chicago Cubs (playing the Arizona Diamondbacks) each win one of their next two games, then we have a rare quadruple-playoff-header on Sunday.
That’s 12 solid hours of meaningful games. Rockin’.
View from my apartment!
It’s so beautiful!
The tops of buildings are all white….
Heh, poor sucker…
Trying to clean off his car… 
Oh, crap. I have to do that too.
Ugh….
From the front
Finally getting the door open…
Halfway done…
Turns out that there’s a sweeter reason than just “