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Emily Post, please pickup the white courtesy phone

Thursday, October 23, 2008

So when your neighbor calls to let you know they will be away for a couple of weeks on their annual elk hunt, how should a sympathetic vegetarian respond? “Good luck” seems to be counter to my beliefs. “Have fun” less so, but still not good.

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way to go, Fred Meyer

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Good morning, I wanted to let you that your decision to block customers from claiming their own reusable bag refunds at the self-checkout is one of the most short-sighted and wasteful things I have seen in some time. So where once anyone could simply claim a refund by keying 1075 on the number pad and [...]

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clumsy hacks, if that’s what it takes

Friday, August 8, 2008

I haven’t yet figured out what makes my system here get so sluggish under load: I realize it’s memory-starved, but I don’t yet know why. In the meantime, I am running this script out of cron.

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