Ever since gas prices started started being treated like monetary exchange rates, UPS has been charging something they call a “fuel surcharge.” In fact, they’ve created an entire webpage that explains their surcharge in excruciating detail. I understand the concept, the price of fuel changes rapidly and they want to make a profit. Understandable, but [...]
This Friday’s What-If is about following directions. The NYPD officers involved in the shooting and killing of a man back in November of 2005 have finally ended their trial and were aquitted on all charges. Of course, this will probably result in several riots and further unrest in NY.
Once again, I come across something that makes me shake my head in disbelief (no religious pun intended). How some people think this stuff up is beyond me. It seems that one Reverend Adelir Antonio de Carli decided it would be a good idea to hook himself up to over a thousand helium balloons and [...]
A recent break through in audio technology gives us the ability to directly access each individual note on a track. Take a guitar cord for example. In the past, your audio editing software would allow you to alter the tone, tempo, or let you apply affects to the entire track (all the notes in the [...]
The Ben Stein movie (and I say movie not ‘documentary’) that’s out is yet another stab at showing “Intelligent Design” as a science. It’s not science, it’s faith. You can’t argue with faith, you either believe it or you don’t. Science on the other hand, has a physical method that is applied and can be [...]
Sometimes, even though I live in Oregon, I’m still amazed at the BS that comes out of this State. Having a Governor who seems to do nothing but sit around and come up with new ways to try and tax us to death, it seems is not enough (recent ones include everything from a cigarette [...]
We blogged a bit ago about red-light cameras not producing revenue anymore for some cities, and now it seems that a few of them rather than just turn them off have opted to increase revenue another way. The National Motorists Association posted an article about six cities since 2005 that have been busted for having [...]
Ok, not quite, but recently I’ve discovered it’s coming ever-closer. I’ve found an HP laser (not inkjet) printer on sale at Office Depot for $99.99; call it a hundred bucks. I figured that this low of a price for a full laserjet printer, would mean the toner cartridge refills would probably cost more than buying a [...]
As a followup to the April 1st post “Grocery crunch has us rethink what we eat”, msn.com ran an article talking about how the restaurant business is in a slump. One of the causes they point out in this article is that stay home moms are making more meals at home this year verses last. [...]
This Friday, we’ve been discussing about the rising fuel cost, the consumption of food resources to fuel our vehicles, and the oil industry in general. Having spent $45 dollars on 13 gallons of gas this morning reminded me of a question; how come we don’t make our cars like we make our trains?
