Here are some pretty cool pics from Iraq… minus the blood and gore and the spins and slants on the progress over there.
Thanks Sarah
New Yamaha Exhibition Models
Some cool new bikes from Yamaha including a hybrid. Too bad their just prototypes — for now.
Anti-Marketing
Warning these are not approved or endorsed, but they can be a fun way to get back at the man…
Tips for Tele-Marketers
(1) If you don’t have a lot of time or if you’re not -uh- assertive, try this: Just say “Hold on, Please…” Say this while putting your phone down (to keep from getting hooked into a conversation) and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) will increase the Telemarketers average handle time. Longer calls mean fewer calls per worker and therefore increased costs for the Telemarketers. Then when you eventually hear the phone company’s “beep-beep-beep” tone, you know it’s time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
(2)If you DO have a lot of free time and some hutspah try this: When the telemarketer asks if you are the man/woman in charge of the house/phone bill/whatever say “yes.” Then let them go through their entire spiel until they finally give you a real chance to talk again — this is typically when they are wanting you to give the green light for whatever product they’re selling. Continue reading
Hydrofoils Anyone?
So take your pick… you've got the Pump-a-bike that can go 20 miles per hour or the Flyak which lets you play in the human-powered hydrofoil arena without, you know, looking like a dork.
Congressional Investigations A Sham
So the United States Congress has started an investigation into the lacking governmental response to Hurricane Katrina. Now that, on face value, seems great — until you realize who will notably be missed in such an investigation. That's right: Congress! We have heard a lot of lamenting about the error of adding FEMA to the huge bureaucracy of Homeland Security — by the very people that voted to place FEMA under HS. Who is it that created the regulations of how the various pieces of government interact? Congress. Who is it that controls the purse strings of the Federal budget? Congress. Here is a more specific example. One of the congressional panel to question Brown, the Former Head of FEMA, was Rep. William Jefferson. Jefferson used the National Guard to retrieve things from his home after Katrina hit. And it actually gets better: apparently there FBI is currently investigating Jefferson, and some surmise he may have been removing evidence from his home. Oh yeah. Let's let that guy question Brown about how he was deploying Katrina resources.