At the Field Museum, there is a display on “African Genius in the Americas” at the end of the Africa exhibit.
It reads:
African-Americans have created technologies, philosophies, religions, political movements and artistic expressions that have helped shape every culture in the Americas. By doing so, they’ve made all our lives much richer. This list […]
For years, my father worked as the warehouse manager for Ethan Allen furniture. I don’t recall how long he worked for them, but I believe it was 10 or 15 years. Whatever it was, it was a fairly long time, and he had put in a lot of hard work for them.
One day […]
I am consistently amazed at how bad customer service can be, but I am especially amazed at how bad it can be around the most basic functions.
Beth’s wallet was stolen a few weeks ago, and the credit card we had associated with the Comcast auto-deduct was replaced with a new card. For some reason, […]
When GMail first went invite only for the beta, I was lucky enough to be an early subscriber to get the easy to remember and extremely applicable username of scottv. Apparently, I am not the only scottv in the world, and occasionally I will get misaddressed email as an unintended recipient. Most of […]
What a cute commercial. From what I understand though, the proper ending should have been one baby stuffing the gas pump down another baby’s throat and pumping toxic sludge and ammonia into his stomach.
I read from the Tribune.
The massive BP oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., is planning to dump significantly more ammonia and industrial […]
My alternate title to this is How Diann Daniel Completely Misses the Point.
So this morning, I am reading this article on CIO.com. It is close to being the biggest piece of trash I have ever read. I will save you some time, here are the main points:
1. Sell the benefits of […]
A couple of years ago, when the .tv domains launched, I tried to get the perfect domain. It turned out that 4 letter .tv domains were premium domains and they wanted a premium price for it. I couldn’t pay, and scot.tv would not be mine.
It just stabbed me in the heart, but this […]
