Thanksgiving We ate approximately 5,000 pounds of food over the weekend which came from about three separate thanksgiving dinners, plus countless reheating of leftovers. Sweet potatoes, you do rock. The homemade relish my mother-in-law had also rocked.
Canada Daze 1. Honky Cracker and Pony have thanksgiving dinner in Canada is so awesome. 2. Mrs. Robot met Pony's Mom last week.
RIP Tuesday morning the phone rings at 8am while I am in the shower and minutes later Mrs. Robot pads in to say that her mom just called and that her grandmother had passed away that morning. She was a sweet, little grandma who made quilts. So, our thanksgiving plans were thrown topsy-turvy.
Bereavement Fare Plane tickets had to be bought. I had always heard about that almost quasi-urban legend that you can get discounted airfare when a member of your family dies. Maybe I am late on this, but we used a special travel agent that the funeral home had set up and they rocked in regard to getting a really cheap ticket and car rental for us. Kudos to them.
Funerals OK, I have had enough of these for 2004. No more.
You Rock The Republicans have convinced people that there's a greater risk of a plane hitting their place of work than you actually losing your job Chris Rock - Onion AV Club
Blog-vertising There has been some noise in the blog-groan-sphere about bloggers doing product placement.
"On Monday, a squad of around 15 independent bloggers will begin inserting mentions of Marqui's hosted communications management services into their blogs for money. The bloggers will get $800 a month to mention Marqui with a link once a week in their blogs and post its emblem on a page. They'll get an additional $50 per qualified sales lead they send to Marqui."
Anyone smell a google-bomb? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement">Marqui</a>
My new favorite funny-because-it's-crazy website "Center for Consumer Freedom" It's a lobby organization that works to "protect consumer choice" on behalf of fast-food and chain restaurants like Cracker Barrel, Hooters, International House of Pancakes, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Red Lobster, Steak & Ale, TGI Friday's, Uno's Restaurants, and Wendy's. Bascially, they are fighting the anti-fast-food / junk-food movement.
Steak & Ale. Ha. Are they still in business? Links...
They also run a right-wing anti-activist site as well (ooops, sorry, I mean "anti-consumer activist groups") (that's all good and well, unless you remember who they are funded by)
Consumer Rights Would Jesus be a big supporter of corporations? By voting for Bush, are you also voting for big business? Does Big Business act in christian ways?
Quoting Eric (w) summarizing Roger & Me: The purpose of corporations is to make a profit. It's NOT to look after the well-being of it's employees.
