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I don’t know what to call this passport photo business, so I am just going to stick with “stupid ripoff” for now.
During the weekend, we went into a CVS Pharmacy Photo Center to get some passport/ID photos. We wanted a specific size (as they say “from chin to crown”), so we asked the dude […]
One of these days I am going to throw up on watching/reading testimonials from “real people”. I haven’t really understood the fundamental purpose of these testimonials. Do they really impress people into buying shady stuff? Are people really so dumb uninformed that they easily get suckered into emptying their pockets after hearing testimonials from […]
Add to: del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo MyWeb | Google | Netscape | StumbleUpon This past week, a faculty member casually asked me about my recommendation for a MP3 player for her son… so I casually asked how old her son was. “He is nine years old” was the answer!! Man.. I never felt more outdated in my life… I still don’t have a MP3 player.
Here […]
Very soon, I am going to add words like “sale”, “discount”, “deal”, “clearance”, etc. to the list of the most abused words in the US … right after words like “values”, “children”, and “integrity” (watch for gross misuse of the latter set of words in the upcoming political debates).
For me, the words sale or discount […]
Notice the plastic cover on our laptop:
The laptop looks absolutely brand new under that shoddy plastic cover (which came with the original packing) and which is now old enough to warp itself out after more than a year of use - although, I am still not inclined to remove it completely.
In the past, I […]
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