In case you aren’t up on the local news in the Detroit area, the Detroit City Council, (one of the whiniest gaggle of politicians to ever waddle into politics) voted down a proposal to fund the Detroit Zoo with $4 million in state dollars, and move the day-to-day operations to the non-profit Zoological society. Their [...]

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Important tip: If you’re a cell phone user, and you have a Bluetooth ™ headset, here’s an important health tip. If you are wearing a Bluetooth ™ headset, and aren’t talking on it, and JoDee sees you, she’ll shove her shoe through your ear. So, please, take off your Bluetooth headset if you’re not using [...]

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Slashdot has an article about how the RIAA is declaring that ‘Fair Use’ is not ripping CDs to an iPod. And I’m sure that the motion picture industry wanted so much to declare that recording television shows to VHS tape isn’t fair use either, but, alas, it is. Oh, and BTW: Generation Y called… they’d [...]

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Hope you have a wonderful time celebrating JoDee’s birthday. Y’know, with those heart-shaped doo-hickeys you pass around. (Yeah, these doo-hickeys). Wouldn’t you just rather wish JoDee a happy birthday instead? I thought you might.

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Hope you have a very happy birthday, Erin!

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While waiting in the checkout lane at Meijer: Daughter (to NASCAR mom): Ow, he hit me with a Slim Jim.

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Found on the back of a magnifying glass. what disturbs me is they printed the “Using handtools can be dangerous…” warning directly on the package, and then put the “Keep away from direct sunlight…” on the package as a sticker, as though it were an afterthought. “Oh, gee… you can use a magnifier to burn [...]

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Payola scandal reaches hundreds of stations. When you think of the music business as a business, it all makes sense. FCC Commissioner: “This is potentially the most widespread and flagrant violation of FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting,” Adelstein said. “We’ve never seen evidence of such a systematic betrayal of the responsibility of [...]

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Music Tastes swayed by peers, or “you only like Kelly Clarkson because you think other people do too”.

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This morning I felt like a lead weight when I got up, so I decided to try and sleep for a little while longer. When the alarm went, I instinctively hit the snooze bar and went back to sleep. Unfortunately I did that for several iterations. When JoDee finally woke up, she mentioned something about [...]

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