Archive for the 'Weird' Category

Dane posted this first. We found it of interest this morning!

Dan Fuchs operates a small mall kiosk in Johnson City, Tennessee. His business, Graphic Edge, prints slogans and graphics on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers. Unfortunately for him, more than half of his business came from anti-Obama merchandise, sos the mall has decided to [...]

This is just weird. It’s the story of a Sydney Australia man who makes up to $50,000 per year begging.
It’s really unbelievable and makes me question giving anything to anyone these days, even though I’m pretty much a sucker.
But at least you know you can always fall back on this when the internet get rich [...]

Next time I go to the jail to lead a workshop, I’ll have to take this “resume” with me.
I think this person might have “rephrased” some of their experience.
Certainly there’s a lot of practical business experience here, but somehow “security” expert doesn’t cut it … obviously there was a critical failure there!

From ImageVat

I was checking out my Magic Jack lens a few minutes ago. When I got there it was under 11,000. Not too bad.
But then seconds later, it showed this: 486 in Tech & Geek and 0 overall!
Weird.  Squidweird you might say.
Then a few minutes later it went back to normal … this one:

Oh well. Back [...]

California uses more gasoline than China.
If California were a separate nation, they’d be the leading fuel consuming nation in the world.
So while the rest of the country is being told to conserve, to pay higher gas prices, switch to hybrids, etc. it appears the really disproportionate consumer of gasoline in the US (and the World) [...]

When we were trying to get high speed internet for my wife’s transcription business, people kept asking us “Can’t you get Verizon’s high speed wireless internet?”
For one thing the local reps could never GUARANTEE we’d have access where we live. Knowing phone companies like I do, I didn’t even want to take a test drive.
Then [...]

I notice weird headlines. At least this wasn’t on an ad someone paid to run!
“Tennessee ranks 30st for children’s health care”
I can’t figure out (even after reading the story) if that means 31st or 30th.
Does the state rank 50st for “readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic”?

From the Business Opportunities Blog
Associated Press:
Before she lets them shoot her little pink stun gun, Dana Shafman ushers her new friends to the living room sofa for a serious chat about the fears she believes they all share.
“The worst nightmare for me is, while I’m sleeping, someone coming in my home,” Shafman tells the group, [...]

I couldn’t tell if I was delirious from the flu and imagined this headline or if it were for real.
It is a real website, but I’m too sick to really even begin to try to wrap my head around it.
Maybe it’s better that way.
Basically it’s about hydrogen on demand but is it really so simple?
One [...]

The kind, loving people who make Craigslist such a friendly place to visit online (NOT!) have now ransacked a man’s house in Oregon.
Oregon man’s property ransacked after Craigslist hoax
The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, [...]