Wifey and I were watching the early news, bleary-eyed, at 5 AM a few weeks ago and they were talking about bargain hunting the morning of cyber Monday (the Monday after the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday shopping extravaganza) and they interviewed the creator of this website, cheapcheapcheap.com. I've been following it, and they've had some great deals on things for christmas and not for christmas, blog-style on the front page with forums.
Now, Yahoo has a
few articles up on the phenomenon of using coupon codes at your favorite retailers, whether they be internet-only or have a brick&mortar presence as well. Mentioned are:
RetailMeNot.com,
FatWallet.com and the
Budget Fashionista.
Labels: economy, effluvia, free stuff, shopping, yahoo
This composite image provided by NASA Wednesday Dec. 3, 2008 of the Tycho supernova remnant combines infrared and X-ray observations obtained with NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space observatories, respectively, and the Calar Alto observatory, in Spain. The image shows the remnant of a supernova that was observed in 1572 by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. The explosion has left a blazing hot cloud of expanding debris (green and yellow). The location of the blast's outer shock wave can be seen as a blue sphere of ultra-energetic electrons. Newly synthesized dust in the ejected material and heated pre-existing dust from the area around the supernova radiate at infrared wavelengths of 24 microns (red). Foreground and background stars in the image are white.
Labels: effluvia, energy, science, space
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New Investment Strategy...
This is making the rounds on the internets today:
Crucial investment information.
Retirement Plans compared..
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.
If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment is to drink heavily and recycle.
This is called the 401-Keg Plan
Labels: economy, effluvia
Yahoo! is getting in on the act...maybe they need to clean up before Steve Ballmer and Rupert Murdoch come walking through with white gloves to see how much dust there is??
As an aside, here's our previous
green posts and to a
local paper's article on green cleaners...
And here's another yahoo article about smarter, "
I shoulda thought of that" engineering...
Labels: chemicals, effluvia, engineering, green
Been Off The Air Mostly Recently...
My surrogate employer has decided to re-formulate it's firewall and block all blogger (at 1st) and then just the components that allow you to log in - something about social networking or some such thing...anyways, couple that with one non-sleeping baby and you've got a toxic mix of no time nor opportunity to blog...so my blogging about Hillary outrage regarding her personal bimbo eruptions will have to slow down a bit...
Labels: effluvia, RBE
Apparently, the Sox coaching staff are not being paid to go to Japan - the players are all pocketing
$40,000 to go! This has Larry Lucchino written all over it.
Labels: baseball, effluvia
Friday Quick Hits
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, effluvia, energy policy, engineering, ethanol, global warming, green, Hillary Clinton, Jewish, science
According to the UK study, antibiotics do nothing for 14 of 15 cases of sinusitis, even when it has been going on for 7-10 days!!!
Labels: BBC, effluvia, medicine, science
Thursday Quick Hits
One post v. many today...just because...
* Great post by
Kos on Clinton's strategy of turning Obama into just another black man and discredit the caucus system. Could not agree more.
* A
great great post on the Burnt Orange Report about stopping with the stupid in what is supposed to be a humerous editorial, but really eviscerates the stupid Hillary talking points strategy in yet another way...one key point is that McCain won CA and NY, so does that mean Hillary and McCain will BOTH win them in a general election fight? Come on, end the stupid, Hills.
* AMERICABlog post on
Ferraro leaving the Hillary campaign now that she's done the dirty work - and we know that she's been race-baiting for several seeks now (see the
Olbermann Special Comment). Speaking of comment,
a comment on the Comment here...and how
Howard Ickes tells a group of supporters that she can only win thorugh SuperDelegates...
* Some
Mark Penn YouTube moment of him doing something Ferraro-ish...
* Two TPM posts about the ugly way that Clinton is slogging her way
through to losing the primaries by throwing all these
harsh bombs, including mailers about Obama's supposed support of Farrakhan because Farrrakhan came out in support of him...?
* A great
Robert Reich post about the coming recession and how it could spiral in to Depression and the coincident nature of our current situation to that of America in 1929-1932...
* the
Space Shuttle docks with the space station...
* Spitzer's , er,
ladyfriend, and Red Sox pitcher Clay Bucholz's
new special ladyfriend...
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, baseball, Bill Clinton, computer, Democrats, effluvia, engineering, Hillary Clinton, Keith Olbermann, science, space
Like your grandmother used to use - vinegar, water, baking soda, to go along with the newer formulated cleaners that use citrus (probably
d-limonene) as their basis.
Labels: chemicals, climate change, economy, effluvia, engineering, environment, fluid properties, global warming, Masachusetts, media, RBE
Could not resist...
Labels: blog, effluvia, free stuff
