fighting the lack of good ideas
Following-on with what my wife wrote last week, we’ve been enjoying going to local auction houses again recently – even on nights when there’s nothing we want, it’s still at the very least entertaining 🙂 The last couple times we’ve gone, we’ve been to the Williamsburg Auction Center, near where my wife grew up. The building…
In follow-up to my post from last week, two members of the Staybridge staff contacted me on Wednesday of this week. Their replies are posted below. Also, a disclaimer: I never asked for anything to be done in recompense for the situation – I just wanted it fixed. Mr. Myers: Please accept my apology for the…
A friend of mine recently pointed me at the newspaper-associated blog of a “recent Appalachian State University graduate and now a freelance reporter for The Charlotte Observer”. Ms Penland seems like a nice person – but her writing is not at all what I would expect for a blog associated with a newspaper – it…
I rarely have good reason to complain about hotels, restaurants, etc. This is one of those rare occasions. And it was made worse because my wife had to go through it, too 🙁 The following is the message I sent to the general manager of the Fishers IN Staybridge Suites location on Tuesday 19 July 2011…
Since I can’t register on Kevin’s blog, I’m replying here 🙂 He asked about where to find “mini” packages of laundry needs. Here’s what I do, I hit the dollar store if I’m going to be somewhere more than a few days – $3 and I have detergent, bleach, and fabric softener.
Wired has an interesting infographic today from WordStream on where Google makes its money in advertising. No surprise on some of the top entries: but the last was surprising (both to me, and the folks who did the analysis): Cord Blood. Seems “rich parents” are wanting to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood for the…
CentOS 6 was released today. So far, I am not impressed. I run a *lot* of virtual machines. So I thought I’d give the netinstall edition a try with the “minimal” install option: when the installer reboots at the end, there is no valid boot image on the drive and starting-up fails. So I switched…