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I thought this was an ironic email to receive from a “Quality Control Manager”: *********************** Dear Nicholas Loper Firstof all, thank you very much for choosing us &for sharing with us your feed back. Your comments and suggestions are veryimportant for us, and are tools to grow and improve as a company. Weappreciate your reviews; [...]
Microsoft’s browser detection tool could use some help. “Your browser is not compatible. We recommend Internet Explorer or Firefox.” Right. -Nick
There I was, rounding first like I do several times a week without incident, when my cleats hit a hard patch of ground and come out from under me. Instinctively I put my arm out to stop the fall. In hindsight, that was dumb. I heard a “noise” … snap, crackle or pop, and limped [...]
This list of ugly cars is highly subjective. For instance, the people who bought them probably didn’t think they were ugly. But then there’s the rest of us. What do you think? 1. Chevy HHR. A blatant ripoff of the PT Cruiser, only uglier. Total unit sales through 2010: approx. 489,000. Did You Know? HHR [...]
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Earlier this month I accidentally “donated” a couple of audio books to the library. They were sitting with a pile of library items that needed to be returned, so I returned them. What’s worse, we were borrowing from them from one of Bryn’s co-workers. D’oh! After several phone calls, emails, and in-person recovery missions to [...]
Last week I got a large envelope in the mail from the IRS. Never a good thing. But then once I opened it, I realized it was just a copy of the form I requested they send me. Via snail mail. In 2011. Here’s the backstory. Apparently forms 1096 and 1099 use a magical special [...]
