Archive for December, 2003

Digital Music Store round-up

Wednesday, December 24th, 2003

Just in time for that last minute dig­i­tal music gift you’ve been want­ing to give your­self, BBSpot has put together review of all the major Dig­i­tal Music down­load stores. From Itunes to…uh…Wal-Mart. Inter­est­ing read­ing…
And also, for those of you who like to drive around and cringe at some of the illu­mi­nated dis­plays of hor­ri­ble taste […]

Christmastime is here

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003

Carla and I finally got our tree tonight. We usu­ally take a day-long extended fam­ily trip to “Bob’s Choose & Cut Christ­mas Trees,” a huge lot where they hand you a plas­tic sled and a saw to bag your own arbo­real hol­i­day sym­bol, but our crazy sched­ule wouldn’t allow us to do it this year. […]

My idea for a new bestseller…

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003

I want to cre­ate a book about over­com­ing the effects of cor­po­rate down­siz­ing by fol­low­ing the lead of a lit­tle known char­ac­ter from the Old Tes­ta­ment.
I’ll call it:
Who Moved My Prayer of Chee­bez?
Break­ing through to the unem­ployed life

Welcome to Winter

Monday, December 8th, 2003

Accord­ing to the Port­land Press Her­ald, our area got 14 inches of snow this past week­end, and that’s not even the worst in the state.
If noth­ing else, a bit of forced her­mitry did us good. We got to fin­ish up some Christ­mas shop­ping in a rel­a­tively deserted Maine Mall, sleep in on Sun­day, and hang out […]

Deface the Music

Friday, December 5th, 2003

The most inter­est­ing thing about this site is not the fact that some­one is mak­ing stick­ers protest­ing the RIAA’s law­suits and the pay­ola prac­tices of major record labels and slap­ping them on CDs at major retail­ers, but the fact that I’ve been in every one of those stores and shop­ping cen­ters.
It’s not often you […]

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