Our office tower is having the windows cleaner so there've been window washers ascending and descending for the past few days. Today we decided to cheer them up a bit by positioning the Carrotine Kid so he faced out the window. Now they get to see his smiling visage every time they go by and they always grin at us.
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Subject: I'll Bet You're Wondering Why Your TopatoCo Order Number 39195 Hasn't Arrived
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:11:13 -0700
From: The Topatoco Shipping Experience
To: Antonio D'Souza
Hello Valued TopatoCo Customer whose first name is Antonio!
You bought merchandise from us. We shipped it out. The next logical step is that you receive the package, but you didn't. It has been sent back to us.
Something has obviously gone very very wrong.
In this case it was the fault of the Post Office. Evidently, The post Office decided to let K9 trainees and an angry robot play with your package.
After a valiant effort, the package succumbed to a somber cottony heaven.
So we thought we'd let you know what had happened so that you aren't waiting diligently by your mailbox, eagerly awaiting your time
travelling aid. The shirt is currently reprinting, otherwise we'd send you a new one today. But we promise that when it arrives (sometime next week, we're sure) You will be at the top of the cue to receive one of those sweet little items.
Again, we're so sorry about the inconvenience. Feel free to yell at your local post person. We will be doing the same.
Sincerely,
Holly, Kaliis, Jeffrey and whoever else shows up.
Topatoco.com
Thinking Of The Children So You Don't Have To.
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When you have a newspaper handy?
Seen on the NYC subway at Graham Ave stn in Williamsburg.
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At a party last night I overheard somebody say "excuse me for asking but are you a guy or a girl?" Curious, I turned to look in the direction of the speaker. In response, the recipient of the question took the questioners hands and placed them on her chest, thereby settling the issue. I thought that was very clever but found myself wondering if there would have existed an equally clever response had the person of ambiguous sex been male instead. I couldn't think of one. Can you?
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A biker royally pissed me off today! He was going the wrong way up a one-way street in the bike lane at night with no lights and almost smacked right into me. I swore after him but he just kept on going as if it were no big deal. I'll admit I take liberties with the traffic code periodically but this guy was just asking for trouble!
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The total global energy needs are on the order of a few dozen terawatts. The maximum potential energy from Hydroelectricity, wind, geothermal and biofuel put together wouldn't even come close to giving us half of that. Solar energy, on the other hand could supply the entire world's power needs using a pretty small amount of desert landscape. The problem, however, is that solar energy currently costs about 5-6 times as much as coal, which is the dominant source of energy today. New approaches to creating solar cells are showing some promise at bringing the cost down to be competitive with coal, however, although it will take a few more years of research before they are sufficiently efficient to make it worth putting them into production.
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I've been struck in the past few days by the frequency with which I encounter fire trucks with their sirens on. Sometimes they try to get through crowded streets and barely make it. Although I recognize the vital importance of giving right of way to emergency response vehicles, it strikes me that the urgency with which people treat them is inversely proportionate to the frequency with which they encounter them. San Francisco is not that big, with scarcely over three quarters of a million people. Are we just filled with pyromaniacs?
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Normally having GPS powered bus tracking is extremely helpful. In the past 2 days, however, nextmuni has outright lied about the 9 San Bruno outbound. If we can't rely on that service to provide accurate data then we're right back to the guessing and waiting game that makes taking buses a pain.
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