Category: Snark

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    Will Offset Carbon Footprint for Air Miles

    Freelance reporter Bigdino sent in a dispatch from the Great White North ™ today referencing this bit of environmental foolishness news. AirCanada travellers can now purchase carbon offsets to assuage their guilty conscience. Now travellers can kick back in cushy business class seats, sip chardonnay and munch on warm nuts without guilt. For instance, it only takes a mere $6.01 USD on a…

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    Had To Read This One Twice

    Catching up on the week’s financial news with David Morrow in this article and had to read this quote twice: Bullish IT spending trends stoke a huge tech rally. Emphasis mine.

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    And Then There Were None

    This is the last known photograph of the late great Dallas Mavericks and their eccentric billionaire owner taken last night at Oracle Arena in Oakland. As former NBA MVP candidate Dirk Nowitski and uberowner Mark Cuban look to the heavens for guidance and the answer to the Mavs sudden fall from grace, as the clock clicked down to zeros, there…

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    Who Moved My Cheese Channel?

    I’ll admit to being a little resistant to change. But thanks to a 28 year career (and counting) in a yo-yo industry I’ve come to grips with change in the workplace and even somewhat in the big wide world. When they quit calling trailer houses trailer houses and started calling them mobile homes I was OK with that. I was…