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Category Archives: General
Clearview
The New York Times Magazine has an article about Clearview, a new typeface that is on track to replace Highway Gothic on road signs across the country. I, for one, welcome this change. My somewhat compromised night vision makes some signs nearly impossible to read at night. If the tests are any indication, this should […]
Newsflash: Police shoot at gas-station clerk
At least according to the blurb for a Channel 11 article. Police said they need the public’s help finding some violent criminals who robbed a gas station off Brockett Road, and even shot at the clerk.
Channel 11 makes the English language cry
There has been a major police crackdown at a monthly car show in Midtown Atlanta, which the dangerous spinning and smoking of tires by drivers. So reads the teaser for an article on Channel 11’s web site. The fun continues in the article itself: Last month 11Alive News showed that after dark, a car […]
Small reassurances
The small things in life have the greatest power to change your perception of the world. Today I visited, with my mother and brother, the Tanger outlet mall on I75. A location better known to many as redneck mecca. The office houses the only publicly accessible restroom in the complex. This singular status cemented it as […]
Good Customer Service
I just received an email from a merchant who shall remain nameless: Thank you for ordering from xxxxx. WE KNOW WE LET YOU DOWN. We’re sorry the item you ordered cannot be delivered in time for the holidays. We are taking 20% off the […]
A Charlie Brown Christmas, Scrubs Style
This is just awesome. A Charlie Brown Christmas voiced by the cast of Scrubs.
Asking for a miracle
Over the course of the last 10 minutes I have received 3 calls from the same guy. All three were wrong numbers. The last two times he’s called my “Hello” has been met with “Oh, I still got the wrong number”. I’m curious what the thought process is here… perhaps sometime during the interval between […]
Sony does it again
Sony made a big splash with their last big-dollar ad for their big-dollar TVs where they dropped thousands of bouncy balls down Lombard Street in San Francisco. They’ve outdone themselves with the latest installment in which they turned what appears to be a British apartment block into a giant paint fountain. Watch it.
New beginnings
After leaving my chaptastic.net site to languish for well over a year I decided I needed to give things a fresh start. It’s been a very long time since I’ve written anything at all so it may take me a while to get back into the swing of things. The old URL will continue to […]