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A bundled deal would impress me more

Business Opportunities Weblog fetured this pajama party business last week. As someone who lives for working in her jammies loves a good spa day, I had to check it out.
It turns out that you buy a ticket to enter the party, and then you pay for each service you want to receive at the party. […]

I feel like a particularly lucky rat

I grew up in the Episcopal church. Nope, true story. You’d never actually guess such a thing if you knew me.
Walking out was unintentional. I wasn’t fulfilled spiritually, and I couldn’t take being part of a highly politicized religion. The sad part is, I don’t even have to explain myself because we tend to air […]

The mythology of friends

I participate in sites that have social networking aspects to them. Personally, I don’t network with many people on these sites, sticking to the people I already know in real life. I’ve actually recently considered purging one of my sites of people I’m no longer close to.
These sites define those you choose to connect with, […]

Goodbye, Biosphere 2

When I was in eighth or ninth grade, I was utterly fascinated by the BIosphere 2 project. Originally proposed as an experiment in creating a mini-Earth for those living on worlds we colonize, the project quickly became something of a joke.
The idea was a good one- create an enclosed version of many of the biomes […]

Oh, spammers, how I don’t love thee!

I’ve sent more spoofed emails to eBay/PayPal over the past three years than I care to think about. They’re usually fairly obvious because they always try to look like emails form one or the other, except they ask you to click on a link. They even have the disclaimer to only log in to your […]

Pink lids are back!

It’s public knowledge that i am anti-pink, except for one thing.
I like pink ribbons. I like them because I support breast cancer research!
I love to support companies that donate part of their proceeds to breast cancer research! One of my favorites is Yoplait’s annual Save Lids to Save Lives campaign. Traditionally, this is a fall […]

The appropriate way to IM me

Yesterday, I decided to give AIM Pages a shot and filled out a basic profile. Apparently, this gave the world permission to randomly IM me. As of early this morning, I have received messages from two (now-blocked) spam bots and had an almost unintelligible conversation with what I assume was an otherwise charming Scotsman.
I don’t […]

Hollywood Career Day

No, this isn’t a chance to debate if you’d rather be on screen or off screen. Apparently, Hollywood is now being used to seduce students into pursuing careers other than acting, directing, and the myriad of technical positions needed to create today’s movies.
Apparently, students can now be lured into the unexpectedly waning careers of science […]

There’s PC, and then there’s…

Apparently, if you went to Amazon and searched for “abortion”, you were prompted with “Did you mean adoption?”
Now, I personally am one for abortion only in cases where it’s a threat to the mother or baby’s health, be it physical or emotional. But I also understand those who feel otherwise. Is it fair to shove […]

MySpace is not the end of the world as we know it

I think if I read one more post on how the blogosphere sky is falling because of MySpace’s existence, I’m going to hurt somebody. If I have to hear one more time how surprised people are when teens are assaulted or brag about their idiotic plans, I’m going to start going around slapping parents of […]