There’s trouble at the North Pole. The Amalgamated Order of Real-Bearded Santas are experiencing a power struggle that resulted in a coup d’état.
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Maybe you’ve heard of StumbleUpon. I vaguely knew of its existence for quite a while but never took a close look until earlier this week. I read an article a couple of days ago about the flaws of Digg’s front page and how Reddit is attempting to improve on the idea of user submitted news, sites, Socialist screeds, etc. What caught my attention was the description of how StumbleUpon was different from both Reddit and Digg.
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Just when I thought Wikipedia couldn’t be any more useful, I found more information that was not easily found elsewhere. One of the events I’ve been trying to stay informed about is the Sirius and XM merger. Thanks to the slowly grinding wheels of the needless and meddlesome government bureaucracy, the process has taken over a year so far. It’s not easy to find the latest news on a story that moves at the pace of our monolithic federal government. I would like to get a satellite radio, but I don’t want to do it before the merger… that is, assuming the government permits the merger. I can’t be sure the current radios will be able to receive the combined networks once the merger is complete.
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We recently made a purchase for Gabe from Amazon. Whatever we bought (I can’t remember what it was), had a special offer of a free one-year subscription to a magazine named Cookie. How great is that? I would really enjoy reading a magazine dedicated to the science and art of making cookies. It’s hard for me to stay current on the current trends and new discoveries in the world of cookies. The magazines logo didn’t suggest much about the magazine either. I guess I should have been suspicious when the Os in “Cookie” weren’t cookies.
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When I was a kid, my dad had these things that looked like pieces of chalk that he would use to stop the bleeding if he cut himself shaving. I hadn’t really thought about it until recently when I was in the shaving section at the grocery store and found something called a styptic pencil, a product “For Minor Cuts and Insect Bites.” It contained two pencils. I’m not sure why you’d need to buy more than one, they seem like they would last at least a decade. That is, unless you were an extra clumsy shaver.
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