Most excellent article on SiliconValley.com on the suckage that is Comcast, “Vindu’s View: Our love-hate relationship with Comcast”
My favorite:
“Most industries and most companies have much lower rates,” said Claes Fornell, who oversees the American Customer Satisfaction Index at the University of Michigan. “There’s only one industry that I know of that has a failure rate [...]

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After watching Modern Marvel’s episode on whiskey last week, I test drove a couple glasses of Canadian Club and Coke. Turns out, all these years I was looking down on Canadian whiskey as “not really whiskey,” it turns out that…I misjudged it.
Canadian Club is a most excellent mixer. Nice hints of vanilla and spice, and [...]

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I got a response to the EECB I dropped on AA a couple week ago regarding the absolute worst flight I’d ever been on with them.
It was basically larded up with “we take this seriously” (ObConsumerist: when a company takes something “seriously” it means that you ain’t getting squat for your trouble) and “you’re a [...]

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And I need to be a cousin of Todd Stroger. This just makes me sick (”Stroger’s cousin cashes in“)…so I need to pay 9.75% sales tax so this woefully underqualified cousin of his
can get a 12% raise?!?!?!
I should print this article out and hand it to my boss when he tells me what my raise [...]

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Dammit, PayByTouch has just disappeared from Jewel. I didn’t realize that they (Solidus Networks, the group behind PayByTouch) actually process the payments, and not Jewel. If you RTFA, the “lady on the street” makes a good point…what’s going to happen to the biometric and payment information provided them. And here’s a lawsuit waiting to happen, [...]

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The ad for the new Hopper exhibition is kinda wrong…they really jacked Nighthawks:

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Hola loyal tarpification readers from the Purple Line. I’m test driving a Sprint EV-DO card, and wanted to take it ’round the block, as it were.
So far I’ve been able to IM (’sup Lorna), read email, have NewsGator grab headlines, and write this entry…all the while not having anything take egregiously long for load times.
ObPhotoForUploadSpeeds: [...]

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Look at what came yesterday…my precious…(god, I need to get out more)

The welcome packet was nice; had the card, two Platinum luggage tags (with the 1MM medallion), 8 AApplause certificates, and a rather overly flowery letter regarding my “achievement.”
That being said, I promptly ordered 6 more luggage tags (so as to re-tag everything I own [...]

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Seriously, this crucifix on St. Peter’s in Chicago reminds me either of a South Park episode (not sure which one, but any of the Catholic ones) or Eddie Izzards, “Cake or DEATH!” bit (awesome legomotion of it).

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Turns out the new incoming-head of Eli Lilly may have the ethics of a slug:
“[W]e are losing scripts to Risperdal for treatment of disruptive kids, because Johnson & Johnson has the data and we don’t.”
-Dr. John Lechleiter
The only problem with this…turns out Lilly’s product is kinda bad:
Because of Zyprexa’s physical side effects, many psychiatrists now [...]

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