Netflix Credits Customer Accounts 15% – Is It Enough?

August 18, 2008

If you are not one of the 8 million subscribers that Netflix currently has, you may or may not have heard about the DVD rental giant’s disaster last week when their shipping system all but died. It all started last Tuesday when Netflix reported a technical glitch that prevented them from sending out DVDs to [...]

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20 All Time Most Memorable Movie Characters

July 30, 2008

I have seen a lot of great movies in my time. Interesting story lines, amazing cinematography, incredibly suspenseful, out of this world funny and the like. One thing I really enjoy besides these elements is intriguing characters that are acted out extremely well. With that, I give you my all-time top list of favorite movie [...]

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Arizona Public Service (APS) – You Suck!

July 22, 2008

I am always afraid to open my electric bill in the summer. It is typical to have electric bills in the $500 range but this month’s bill of shocked me a bit. I’m not going to disclose the exact amount but let’s just say that in my seven years at my current residence, I have [...]

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Bye Bye Kitty – We Will Miss You

July 22, 2008

I knew the sad day would come and now it has. We have given up our “Kitty” whom we took in as a kitten and have had as our feline pet for some 8 years now. Despite all the things we have enjoyed about our cat, my wife has always complained about the hair she [...]

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Baby Andy Professional Portraits

July 19, 2008

Seeing that our first grandson has hit the ripe age of 6 months old, we decided to finally get some professional portraits done. It was quite an interesting task, waiting for the two screaming and very unhappy babies that were before us, as well as getting Andy to smile at the photographer he did not [...]

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David Wallace For President

June 27, 2008

Note: Looks like Flash movie no longer works. Sorry but it was pretty funny. People who create stuff like this should leave links in place but all to often move stuff around or discontinue things. The cat is out of the bag, I’m running for president. Will you vote for me? News story below. If [...]

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Past Predictions That Were Way Off

June 25, 2008

A good friend of mine sent me a list of predictions, some which are several years old, that are quite off. I’ll say nothing further about but simply allow you to enjoy them as I did. “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, [...]

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Carpet Cleaner Telemarketing On My Cell Phone

June 12, 2008

It has happened twice now. Some nameless carpet cleaning company calls my cell phone (a no no in the first place) to try to get me to schedule service with them. It is a computer that actually calls which then prompts me to select the number 1 to schedule appointment. I am then sent over [...]

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Difference Between Men and Women

April 25, 2008

This is a humorous look at what our interior control panels might look like. What is this picture trying to say? That men are simple and women are quite complex? I would say so. Actually I think the man’s control panel should have three switches, labeled as follows – “Food,” “Sex” and “Ataboy.” Of course [...]

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Baby Andy on Easter

March 31, 2008

It’s hard to believe that our new grandson, Andy is almost three months old. During the first eight weeks, it didn’t seem like their was much change. Now, it is obvious he is getting bigger and smarter. He laughs regularly, tries to put together words (I could swear he says “ma ma” often), has pretty [...]

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