Entries Categorized as 'Offbeat News'

Just when you’d like to go hit the gym…

Date June 14, 2008

I wanted to go to the gym today - it would have been the first time in several weeks - but when I got there, I noticed that some fire trucks had pulled up and apparently the whole place had been evacuated. There seemed to be some sort of power outage at the gym. I [...]

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A little peevish this morning

Date February 25, 2008

I must say that I’ve been a little “peevish” this morning and it all spanned the time it took from me leaving my house to get into work today - a total of about an hour’s commute.
So I leave my house and it takes me about 30 minutes to get to the nearest Metro station, [...]

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Finally, someone telling how to properly do a PowerPoint presentation

Date December 24, 2007

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Burger King wastes money on commercial

Date December 9, 2007

There’s a point to every commercial and obviously it appears that Burger King’s latest commercial is to point out that IF they stopped serving the whopper, then loyal customers would be mad. Now that’s a perfect point, but did they need to waste a lot money (perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars) just on a [...]

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“Save Manessa”?

Date December 1, 2007

It appears that Manessa Therese Donovan has disappeared from her home and her parents from Florida. There’s a blog that was started yesterday that talks about the trouble that happened in this girl’s life and how she may have been deceived and tricked into going with her “boyfriend” and hanging out with “his homies”. Her [...]

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