When buying a car, I’ve become accustomed to having to research pricing until smoke billows out of my ears because I hate finding out that the “special deal” I received wasn’t very special. Multi-level pricing has oozed into the retail software industry and is especially rife with companies selling direct. After a couple of (expletive) […]
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(for maximum humor value, mouse-over the dashed lines.)Long ago, before the mists of the dot com era wafted down upon the masses, I worked at a company that made bananas. I traveled to a customer site with Tim, the company’s top salesman to observe his crafitness. After we met with the Zookeeper and Primate Custodian,
I was at Costco this weekend, waiting in line for gas behind a Hummer. My God, what an ostentatious vehicle. I wondered why anyone would want something — beyond the tax deductiblity aspect. (Don’t get me started on this one…) I was going to write a sarcastic top five list speculating on why people buy
There’s a week left to go on my cell phone billing cycle and I’m within 60 minutes of blowing my allocated minutes. It really shouldn’t be a big deal, I mean it is a frickin hour, and the worst that happens is I get a huge bill. Still, the sense of dread is strong, as
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My wife and kids are in Chicago visiting her folks. I’m home, hoping to take advantage of the time to finish various projects: refinish the hardwoods, spray toxins on the carpenter ants, edge the lawn, trim the hedges, clean the kitchen, excavate my study enough that I can move back into it, etc… and maybe
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I was cleaning out my study and found a copy of a report I worked on while doing my MBA: the dry pancake mix market. I had a lot of fun doing the market research, scanning through IRI data, and the user surveying. It’s be a shame not to share with you, what I learned
As mentioned a few weeks ago, I had been using the Carl’s starter mix. Well, I managed to deal it a crippling blow after stirring in milk and started anew. One theory, which is actually kinda scary, is the antibiotics in the milk wiped out my yeastie beasties. This recipe is a light sourdough from
I was feeling more social than usual and did a Cascade Bike Club ride yesterday. Tom and Sara’s Southend Saunter starts at Ft. Dent park, in Tukwila, doing a 77-mile, counter-clockwise loop through West Seattle, Des Moines, Redondo Beach, Browns Point, and Kent. Over the river andthrough the woods?! Microsoft Streets and Trips failed abysmally
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