Alaska Airlines is not doing much to improve its image with passengers. Denying a man a seat delayed the man from getting to see his daughter before she died of burns from a house fire.
Alaska Airlines spokesman Jack Evans said the airline has the right to remove passengers from a plane to make room in such an emergency and would certainly do so in the future. Sounds like to little to late to me.
Why hasn't this happened yet? I know I would dig working at home in my pj's on a regular basis.
(I did figure out that is WAS cheaper to buy the auction than from Old Navy's website due to ON's shipping prices, but it is still cheaper to just go to the store - since I doubt your local sales tax is 100%.)
From an article about some interesting journalistic bloopers:
After a major snowstorm, this caption appeared beneath a photo of busy shovelers:
"Though a s---load of snow fell Saturday, snowplow crews had most major streets cleared by Sunday."
To which a regular reader replied:
"Being a Crystal Lake Herald reader for over 12 years, it is one of the first times that I saw your paper print the truth in such succinct and concise language, easily understood by the average reader."
(there are some more funny stories here, and at the site listed in the story, slipup.com - I love this stuff)
Sometimes it is nice to be reminded that you have really good friends. You're a good man, Charlie Brown!
Why? Why? Why?
This movie doesn't even need to be made. The fimmakers of the original movie aren't even involved in this one, and it isn't about the 3 missings people, but about Rusty Parr and the 7 kids he killed. So, does that make it a sequel or another movie all together? But, at least they hired a true documentarian to direct this, Joe Berlinger, who made the two documentaries called "Paradise Lost". I saw those on HBO and was spooked, so maybe it might be a scary movie, I just hope it is not a Scream 3 type of scary. That was crap.
With the Stock Exchange dropping and the NASDAQ not showing signs of peaking again any time in the near future, dot.com IPO's are being withdrawn faster than you can say Venture Capital.
This site seems to take pleasure in seeing which dot.com bubble will burst next.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of this lollipop?
Be sure to abide by all of the traffic laws in Argentina, to avoid an accident, or this might happen to you.
From Napster press release June 5,2000:
Napster and The Offspring have come to an agreement
to expand the Napster line of merchandise. Profits
from this venture will go to a charity determined by
Shawn Fanning and Dexter of The Offspring. Shawn Fanning
said, "The Offspring have been great supporters of
Napster. We are looking forward to working with
them." Dexter said, "T-shirts....GOOD!"
Today I made someone feel bad, and I didn't mean to, since she thought she was empathizing with me about something that just makes me mad, and I told her so.
I live in Oklahoma City, where we now have the "Oklahoma City National Memorial" - the park (or is it a garden?) that memorializes "...the worst terrorist attack in on American soil." And, this lady was telling me that someone had sent her photos of the memorial, and she was fighting back tears and telling me how sad it was to see those chairs in the garden. She then said that she felt so sorry for me, and just knew I had to be devastated every time I saw the memorial. It was then that I had to explain my feelings about a few things:
1. I have not been to the memorial, no do I plan to go to the memorial. Not because I don't feel sad that people were killed and injured in the bombing, but because I have some very strong opinions against the memorial. Like, why did it cost $29.5 million dollars to create it? And why did the State have to take $2.5 million dollars out of the State's Rainy Day Fund to complete it?
2. I firmly believe that the memorial is for people not from around here. If you had a friend or loved one that died in the bombing, you would probably go to their grave and mourn them there, not where they were killed. Bailey Alman's (the baby girl who was in the photo where the fireman was carrying the child from the rubble) mother said, on the day of the dedication, that she had never come back to this site until that morning because this is not where she visits Bailey, she visits her at the cemetery. When I explained to my friend that there are road signs directing traffic, and I do mean the tour buses that do come to town, to the memorial, she was appalled and couldn't believe that the city would be encouraging sightseers. Well, they may not be encouraging, but they sure aren't discouraging it as the rise in hotel occupancy has grown since April 19th.
My friend was also surprised to find out that the city's District Attorney, Bob Macy, still intends on trying Nichols and McVeigh for 168 counts of murder. What makes me so mad about that is that it will take $6 million dollars each to try two individuals who are already serving life sentences in the highest security prison in the US. All Macy would succeed in doing is spending tax-payer money like a sieve and reopening wounds that haven't even fully closed yet. Why? Why drag the families through more trials? Why drag the city through the media circus again?
Believe me, I feel terrible about all of the death and injury that occurred April 19th, 1995, and I do believe that there should be a memorial to those that died, just not a $29.5 million one. I had a distant cousin who died in the blast, but if I choose to mourn her, I will go to her grave site, and mourn privately, not in the town square with the next bus of tourists coming through.
I also know people that were terribly devastated by this tragic event, and I do not want to ridicule their feelings about the memorial, but each person attaches a different meaning to different things. I am sure people find comfort there, but my feelings about how this memorial was handled have tainted my opinion of it.
I remember reading about company that was offering specialized searches for people who didn't know how or didn't want to surf the web for themselves. (yeah, those search engines can be soooo difficult to navigate...) I joked then that that would be the perfect job for me, giving me a reason to surf the web all day.
Now, I am wishing that I did have a reason to surf. I am having "surfer's block". Is there such a thing, or have I created a new phenomenon? My definition is "the desire to surf the web, but unable to think of topics to look for due to overuse of the internet". Heh, that's pretty good.
I do know that if I have a specific thing to look for, I am able to find out plenty of information. I just need to have a direction, a certain thing I am seeking. So, if you have any suggestions, or need something found, let me know and I will give it a shot. I don't mean for this to be like "The Great Blog-Off" (which I don't think that Wendell ever fully recovered from), this will have no time limits or trying to get the most links, just interesting links on topics. The worse that can happen is that I overload my 80 gigs of available space, and even then, I will just burn it to a CD, do a memory dump and start all over again.
......mmmmmmm....chocolate milk....ummmm.....and I don't just mean ready-made, pour out of the carton, chocolate milk, I mean, 90% Hershey's Syrup with just enough milk to dissolve the syrup away. Now that is a glass of chocolate milk. I remember getting addicted to drinking it this way back when the only way you could buy the syrup was in the can that you had to open with a church key and it didn't have a plastic lid, so you had to use the can up very fast before it spoiled - hance the large quantity of chocolate per glass.....yummmmmmy!
I see this commercial for this new channel that Cartoon Network is starting called Boomerang. Basically, Cartoon Network created to many original cartoons and doesn't have room for all of the old 'toons from 1958 thru 1976, so Boomerang was born.
Now, I know I used to be a t.v.-aholic (is that a word? oh well, it is now...) when I was a kid, but I thought I was a bit older, say 6 or 7. But when I checked out the listings for Saturday Morning Line up in 1974 I remembered everything that was listed. And since I was born in November, '70, I was 3 most of 1974, same age my kid is now. But the funny thing is, he is watching the same stuff I was - the kid must have inherited my good taste. Okay, stop laughing now, Beau....
My kid likes 'toons - ALOT! Someone should sell a tv that only gets one channel, Cartoon Network. It would be cheap, since there is no need to have all of those extra, unused channels just sitting there going to waste.
Today, for instance, Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, was on. It was an episode B.S.D. - Before Shitty Doo (and you know what little bratty pup I am referring to), but during the campy 70's Hanna-Barbera time frame, not the cool 60's eps. (I was gonna link to H-B, but when I went to the site and all I got was info on Warner Brother's cartoon's and character's - what's up with that?) Anyway, those meddling kids go into an office, that they had never been in before, that had been thrashed by a "monster", and Daphne picks up a book of matches and says "Hey, guys, I found a clue." WTF makes her think that it might be a clue?? Maybe it came out of one of the smashed desks?? Maybe it fell out of the pocket of the guy who got beaned on the head?? But, I guess that is why they get to roam the country solving mysteries and I am back here just watching it happen.
Warning!! Very Big Rant Ahead!!
Large companies amaze me sometimes. Sometimes they will go out of their way to help employees that have a substance abuse problems by sending them to treatment facilities, giving time off to deal with family situations, maybe even advancing them on their pay if they seem to be strapped for cash. But, if an employee is stressed by a specific job, has asked to be reassigned to another job, or just asked for some time off (unpaid) after the job is completed to get over burn-out from said job - that is a liability. They would rather help someone who takes drugs than someone who is stressed about a project. Fucking stupid.
I know that nothing is ever as simple as one would like it to be - always shades of gray - but I just don't get it. My life has been affected by one such company this past week, and I am still trying to come to terms with it. It wasn't to me directly, but to my husband. So, I get to be supportive to him and be positive, while I am seething inside. (I vented shortly one afternoon, but this was after he had spent the night before with friends ranting about it, so he had already heard everything I had to say.)
I know that it had been discussed, him leaving, but it is just so shitty to have life decisions taken out of your hands - makes you feel like you have lost total control of everything, which isn't necessarily the case. I have had a new attitude for the past couple of months (since my amazing trip to NOLA) and I know that everything happens for a reason. This occurrence is to make him shit or get off the pot and get on with making himself happy. I know this, it is just a bit scary until it all gets going again.
I have a good friend that says I am always an optimist, and this is not always the case, I just happen to be the one people look at to reassure them that all is going to be okay. Otherwise, I would just sit around and be in a piss poor mood all the fucking time. Okay, maybe I am in a mood most of the time, just not around everyone. Well, okay, maybe around some people...oh well, you get the picture..
I can't believe it happened this way. And I hope that this "new direction" bites them in the ass and they lose lots of money. I really do. Which is a shame to say, because I still have friends that work there and their livelihood would be in jeopardy, but I know that they are talented enough to go just about anywhere and make a comparable salary and might even be in a happier environment. So I don't really worry about them in the long run. I would especially love it if they all found jobs outside of this company and all left at the same time - proving that no matter how much money that gets thrown at them, it is not just about the money - it's the working environment, too.
And don't fucking tell me that is was such a hard decision to make between a "Senior" member of the team and someone that has only been there a month and a half (I know this is not her fault, so no bad feelings towards her), but that is a crock of shit. It is because he questioned the "new direction" and because he was on a shit job that they wouldn't take him off of, so he wasn't "shining" in the department at this moment. Please, please don't look at all of the other shit and ass saving around there, because that surely doesn't count. Only that the fucking daughter of the fucking president of the company wasn't getting her way - guess she fucking got it now, gets to fucking start from scratch with a new team. Wa-hoo...I am so sure it will be a smooth transition.
Man, I could go on and on, but I have already for far to many paragraphs. Maybe, I shoulda just said, “It’s all just such fucking bullshit” and been done with it, but I just couldn’t stop there. Anyway, these are my opinions, and my opinions alone. If anybody feels like being pissed off about anything I have said, feel free to let me know here, because I sure would be interested in hearing your opinion, and you know, I have such an open mind right now I am sure I would take it ever so constructively.
So, this model, who already has a tiger tattoo on her shoulder, goes to get another one, a rose this time, on her butt, and the guy tattoos his portrait instead. There are so many things wrong with this picture:
1. When he told her not to look at it until she got home, that would sound a few warning bells in my head. "Hello, why don't you want me to look at it now and compliment you on your good work?????
2. Why would he put his face on her ass? That ranks up there with the Doctor that carved his initials in a patients stomach. What's with all the "branding" of people lately?
3. He offered to try and change his face into something else. I am sure that will be just as seamless as all of those other tattoo changes, ie. Pamela Anerson changing "Tommy" into "Mommy" and Johnny Depp's "Winona Forever" into "Wino Forever".
It's just too much.