A weblog about stuff and junk by Jake Sutton
For the record, Po Bronson’s book by that title doesn’t really provide any answers. It just tells you about some of the lucky bastards who have figured out an answer to the question.
So, yeah… This is something I’m thinking about a lot these days. Unless something changes drastically and some switch gets flipped in my head, I don’t see myself doing what I’m doing now for more than, say, another five years.
So what do I want to do instead? I have absolutely no idea.
Good news for inmates who aren’t already tattooed
“The program has advantages in that we can take a practice that already occurs, and make it safer,” said Holly Knowles, a spokeswoman for Correctional Services Canada. “We’re trying to reduce the amount of make-shift needles.”
Isn’t that nice? Now the boys in the joint can get their prison tattoos without fear of infection. Yay!
I wonder if the authorities will try to censor content at all.
Oh, and since when are Canadian dollars almost neck and neck with US greenbacks?!
Prisoners are allowed a one-hour controlled session with an inmate tattoo artist for C$5 (US$4.25).
Wasn’t it almost two-to-one a couple years ago? Looks like the Loonie has been on the rise as of late, while the green stuff has generally been sliding. So much for that “act like a millionaire gansta” vacation to Canada, eh?
According to this chart, gasoline actually costs less, on average, in Los Angeles than here in Denver.
That’s a first!
Especially considering LA gas cost almost 40 cents more than Denver only a month ago. Denver prices have jumped about 45 cents in the last week. Gads…
Safe and sound. Had tons of fun. Big write-up will have to wait, though.
In the mean time, the place where I work was bought!
The End of the Rainbow — Ireland is now Europe’s second richest country.
… In a quite unusual development, the government, the main trade unions, farmers and industrialists came together and agreed on a program of fiscal austerity, slashing corporate taxes to 12.5 percent, far below the rest of Europe, moderating wages and prices, and aggressively courting foreign investment. In 1996, Ireland made college education basically free, creating an even more educated work force.
The results have been phenomenal. Today, 9 out of 10 of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies have operations here, as do 16 of the top 20 medical device companies and 7 out of the top 10 software designers. Last year, Ireland got more foreign direct investment from America than from China. And overall government tax receipts are way up.
This is fascinating. Yet we can only wish that leaders of other countries (Like maybe, the USofA) would/could use this as a model.
DSW Data Theft Much Larger Than Estimated
DSW Shoe Warehouse said Monday that it has contact information for about half of those people and started sending letters notifying them of the thefts, which happened at 108 stores in 25 states between November and February. A list of the stores is available on the company’s Web site.
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Besides the credit card numbers, the thieves obtained driver’s license numbers and checking account numbers from 96,000 transactions involving checks, the company said. Customer names, addresses and Social Security numbers were not stolen, DSW said.
Suck. I’m a total show whore, and I love me some DSW. This doesn’t give me good feelings, though.
Luckily, we haven’t seen any untoward activity on our credit cards. Judging from the DSW site, though, it looks like we should keep watching:
… if you shopped in one of the following stores between mid-November 2004 and mid-February 2005, and you used a credit card, debit card or check to pay for your purchase, your information was most likely included in the stolen information …
Yep. We’re on there.
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