Victoria’s Secret used Kanye West and Jay-Z as their musical entertainment on Tuesday. Edgy. Popular. The beat was great for runway strutting but their lyrics are soooooooooo angry I wouldn’t use them to sell my merchandise.
Turns out Mr. West got 7 Grammy nominations last night including one for his joint venture with Jay-Z, Watch the Throne. I now understand why he and Jay-Z wanted to perform together on the Vicky runway.
I just don’t understand why Vicky wanted them.
Why is the Brother HL-2170W printer Quick Start Guide 12% larger than the entire Brother HL-2170W User’s Guide?
No new taxes, right? The acting administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced a new federal tax of 15 cents per tree on Christmas Trees to pay for a new Christmas Tree Promotion Board. Tree farmers sell about 25-30 million real Christmas trees in the U.S. each year
Radio guy said we should call our Congress Critter and Senators. I would but they are all ultra liberal drinkers of the Obama Kool-Aid.
The Board will run a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industrys position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the Christmas tree industry … [to] enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States.”
THREE POINT SEVEN FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
I guess we should thank our lucky stars it isn’t $3.75 Billion.
The local Solid Waste District bought and closed the Burlington, Vermont, “Intervale” compost facility because that operation was unable to meet the costs of state compliance.
Flocks of gulls have moved to the St. Michaels College compost area since the Intervale closed. That puts planes flying into and out of Burlington International Airport at risk. I fly into and out of BTV. The Green Mountain Boys fly into and out of BTV. Hitting a goose is one thing but to be brought down by a frigging sea gull?
I spent an hour or so in a client’s office moving a DSL modem from the single online computer in that office onto the LAN. Had to call Fairpoint (nee Verizon) a couple of times to get some support because I couldn’t talk to the modem via a browser interface.
Fairpoint finally told me that the circa-1492 DSL modem has no addressable firmware and can only be installed directly to a computer; it won’t work when plugged into the router unless I want to reconfigure the router (manually) every time the power goes out.
“That’s a dumb design,” I thought peevishly.
But it’s more than that. This client is a busy office that has grown over the years. Why on earth didn’t Verizon know to sell them something with the ability to grow back in the Dark Ages when they first went online?