Back in the late 20th century an accomplished economist was buying some vacation property out west. The real estate agent picked him up from town in an antique ox-drawn cart, hoping that he could tempt the businessman into buying the animal as a pet to complement his new rustic estate. “Yes shes a beautiful animal”, the [...]
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Getting Ready to Impale 2010
Scribd, the website where anyone can publish their own documents, is an often overlooked resource. These documents can be, like, political-tirade pamphlets, unpublished (unpublishable) books, business-school homework, whatever. The whole boat-and-parade is like a rowdy, misfit Google Books. Check it out sometime. I’ve discussed Scribd before of course, but the specific case I’m going to make for [...]
FYI…
Here is a sampling of usenet groups that currently have only one member, in case anyone was looking for a new hobby. Im not going to riff and ramble about all this, just wanted to enjoy the ol’ slice of life:
All About Peafowl
A group for all those people out there wanting to know more [...]
Neighbors
I didn’t actually leave this note, it just occurred to me to write it up for comedy:
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