Christopher Giggling, originally uploaded by pfilias.

This is pretty fun, too!

TASTY APPLE!, originally uploaded by pfilias.

I love this picture. I just HAD to blog it!

Today Show, originally uploaded by pfilias.

I made it down and got a parking spot right on Woodward!

I really wanted to see Ann Curry and Al Roker… it was pretty cool. I wish I was there a bit sooner to have a closer spot, and wish I had brought a normal camear.

This is hilarious. Thanks Joe!!

I loved this. I heard about this on the the way to work and I came in to find a video clip. I looked at Hotair.com and found it right away!

Gingrich rips the media

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Now that this is finally over, I wanted to share the latest bill I received from Tru Green ChemLawn of Shelby Township, MI.

A few months ago, they did 2 lawn treatments within two days of each other. The first, spray, and the 2nd, granular. I think they spilled something on the 2nd visit and burned a 4 foot in diameter patch in my lawn, near my front door. It’s definitely a horrible mistake on their part, and they never truly acknowledged it saying they goofed. All they did was come back a few days later and lay down some pretty nasty brown pellet looking fertilizer that smelled HORRIBLE.

To add to this, they billed me for the application that burned my lawn and kept telling me they’d remove it from my bill, yet, they kept billing me. They finally broke the camel’s back when I got my bill on Saturday. I filed complaints with local news channels and the better business bureau, as well as Tru Green corporate. I’m not sure WHICH of these entities actually called them about it, but when I spoke with “Kim” today, she said they had applied a credit on the 19th of August, 2008, which was the date of the last bill they sent. I don’t believe them. I’ll share some pictures (when I get them from home) of my burnt lawn as well as this bill, which was pretty over-the-top  of how NOT to handle customer service, if you ask me. Read WHO they addressed this bill to.

While we were excited to see him walking behind his little car, we never expected to see this! The good thing about this is that he didn’t make a peep!

digg story

This jumped up on google.com a bit ago…a link to what Barack Obama and John McCain are reading. I wasn’t surprised by their lists.

Barack:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16774216154071822567

McCain:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/00430365334900592587

To me, DailyKOS is like DailyPOS and Huffington Post is just plain garbage. I won’t even link to them.

I was glad to see that McCain read The Drudge Report, FoxNews, and JibJab!

A few years ago, while in business school, we wrote a paper on Apple’s growth and their opportunity to take their 3-4% market share and turn it into a double digit market share. A few years later (now), it seems they are getting there. The popularity of their Intel-based MacBook Pros and and MacBooks has really made their climb possible.

You can read more about this at ArsTechnica.

I can’t believe this. I’m having an adult (at least I think it’s an educated adult I’m talking to) conversation with my friend from high school. I’ll leave his name out to save him embarrassment.

My friend:

I’ll take it off your bill! Your in BYATCH!!!

Me:

And it’s “you’re” in.

My friend:

Nope, what country did you grow up in?

Me:

Are you retarded? When you say “your in”, that means my “in” is ??? When I say “you’re in”, I am saying “you are in”. Where did you go to college? Oh right…. Geeeez.

My friend:

I believe you are the retarded one. You should learn to speak English like the rest of the country!

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

You’d have to be a real geek to get this one. Thanks to Joe for showing me this. I couldn’t stop laughing for a few minutes.

As I sit here trying to fix this computer that has the buritos and XP Security Center, I figures I’d try this out.

I’ve been meaning to post this on my blog, but had forgotten to do so as I emailed it out to a handful of friends.

Here is the story:

Someone who works at a University in Eastern Washington was reading the CNN/Money article about the top 100 places to live in 2008.

He went here: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2008/snapshots/PL2672818.html and saw my picture and remembered meeting me and remembered that I worked at WSU. He sent an email to the general financial aid e-mail address asking if anyone knew who the man in the picture was.

Best places to live 2008 - Shelby, MI - from MONEY Magazine

I used this the other day when I sent Alex a link. Nice to read about it a few days later!

TinyURL finally adds vanity URLs | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

Paul Stamatiou points out that his internet connection was actually being maxed out with using 802.11g. He had to upgrade his network to 802.11n to get the full throughput his internet service provider offered.

Maybe Comcast will get us DOCSIS 3.0 pretty soon so we can at least have 30Mbit/s connectivity.

His connection speed:

Read his post, link is below:

My Internet Connection Maxed Out 802.11g - PaulStamatiou.com