Archive for July, 2008

Rosebush Watch Ends

Rose­bush Watch offi­cially ended July 1, when I received an apol­ogy for the van­dal­ism of my rose­bush. I for­got to tell every­one. Sorry. The cam­era is gone, as is the Rose­bush Watch page. The bush is now in its sec­ond bloom cycle and is cov­ered with new flowers.

Aggregation Aggravation

I got a let­ter today from the City: Click to read it. At the bot­tom of the page is a tear-​​​​off form that I’m sup­posed to fill out and sign in order to opt out of the pro­gram, but my scan­ner won’t scan legal-​​​​size paper, so you don’t get to see it. It’s not all that excit­ing; you aren’t miss­ing much. Appar­ently, before I moved to Lesser North­east Key Mid­west­ern Swing State City (just 20 min­utes South of Greater North­east Key Mid­west­ern Swing State City), the city res­i­dents voted to do this aggre­ga­tion thinggy to, allegedly, get cheaper elec­tric­ity. From what I gather, the gov­ern­ment picks which [ . . . ]

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Incompetent Industrials II

Here’s a par­tic­u­larly bad one from a com­pany by which I once was employed.