General Misc.

Can one call it a “questionable” use of quotation marks?

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

A photograph of a sign in a Pottery Barn Kids store at Burlington Mall in Burlington, Massachusetts:

Are they sure it’s “”their” space” and not “their “space”?”
…as long as it isn’t a spelling bee
Here’s a sign from a CVS store in Winchester in Massachusetts:

A question mark would have been in order in place of the mysterious [...]

Easing under-crowding

Monday, December 29th, 2008

305 million people plus!

Little Baby, Big Building

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

My son, impressed by the new W hotel in downtown Boston.

Christmas Tree

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Bass Pro - known from the famous jingle “The Best Gillette Can Get” - has a tremendous Christmas tree at its Patriots Place store. That store is a great shopping experience.

ALCS wrap up

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

What did the Iraqis find after America left their country?
A Red Sock on every base.
[Uh, wait a minute, the Sox just tied the game. Holy cow.
And fifteen minutes past midnight they won the came! Quite a turnabout. On to Game 6. Wrap up Tampa Bay's world championship hopes and send them burning down the Charles [...]

Together we can hope for sacrifice

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Whenever I hear politicians or pundits talk about the American people making sacrifices I think of store parking lots and the enormous sacrifice shoppers routinely choose not to make. I’m talking about returning one’s shopping cart to a shopping cart corral. Sometimes it’s an arduous six feet journey, sometimes it’s a 100 feet death march [...]

A life more exciting

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Senator Hillary Clinton’s blatant lie that she had to contend with sniper fire or the threat of sniper fire when she landed Tusla in Bosnia in 1996 could be seen as an example of her rotten, devilish, say-anything, no-good soul. That’s not how I think of the Senator, and I that’s not what I think [...]

Born to fly free

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Here are a few pictures my dad took last summer in the Old Country. A couple of birds were released into the wild by Nordens Ark, an organization that works to preserve and strengthen endangered species.

County data update

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

The United States Census Bureau announced yesterday that the data has been quarterly updated on USA Counties where you can find
5,900 data items for the United States, the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia), and all of the nation’s 3,141 counties and county equivalents.
Have fun.

If it weren’t for drinkers there would be no bottles to recycle

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

De’ fanns plenty of brännvin när kom
men när vi gick
då var det slut.

Amanda gångar sig ut i lunden
där får hon se att en ko står bunden
Amanda gångar sig hem igen
slår upp en nubbe och tömmer den