Bacon! - Mmmm… The foods you can make out of bacon…
What font says ‘Change’? - The Boston Globe - You know, at this point, selecting your Presidential candidate based on their campaign signs’ font makes as much sense as anything else.
My day started when I accidentally deleted 40 days worth of messages in my email inbox. I run Thunderbird, so this shouldn’t have been an issue, according to numerous articles, such as this one, on the Internet. However, I also had compression turned on. Which meant that as soon as I hit the shift-delete key, my inbox compressed itself, getting rid of all those messages to save a glorious 10MB in disk space.
Note to everyone: Run Thunderbird. Turn Compression off. Back up your email anyway. Save yourself the agony that I’ve had today.
A few months back, I had a link to a P.O.T.U.S. quiz, that matched up your ideology with one of the candidates. Of course, since taking that quiz, the candidate that I was the closest match with dropped out of the race (Thanks, Fred).
Today I found a different quiz online. If you took the other quiz, please take this one as well, and let me know if your results were the same. My #1 match was not in the top 5 at the other place, even with candidates that have bowed out of the race removed from the equation.
When I was in college, I had an Economics professor, Dr. Charles Leathers, give the most succinct summary of Economic forecasting that I’ve ever heard. It went along the lines of, “If you want to gauge how the economy is doing, forget all about forecasts, leading indicators, and reports. Just look at prices in the vending machines.”
That piece of advice is forever ingrained in my memory. Having that in mind, I have watched, over the last 8 months at work, the price for a bag of chips go from $.45 to $.85, and the price of a Snickers Bar increase from $.50 to $1.00. So today, I was not shocked when I heard that Hershey is raising the prices of its wholesale chocolate, citing increases in raw materials and transportation costs.
Forget GDP & Jobs Reports. Watch the CPI (Chocolate Price Increases) instead.
That ole checkered hat,
Rock granite face,
Those eagle eyes roamin’ the field,
No football fan alive,
Ever saw the sight,
Whose spine didn’t feel a little chill.
(Chorus)
Bear of Alabama - Hero of little boys and their Dads,
Thanks for all the memories and the victories we shared,
We love you and we miss you, Bear.
The Number One Teams, Number 315,
John David Crow, “The Snake”, and Broadway Joe”,
You turned boys into men,
Taught ‘em how to win,
And the games’s just not the same without you Coach.
(Chorus)
Bear of Alabama - Hero of little boys and their Dads,
Thanks for all the memories and the victories we shared,
We love you and we miss you, Bear.
Every time we look down at a goalpost in the fall,
We’ll see you standing there, Bear you’re the greatest of them all.
(Chorus)
Bear of Alabama - Hero of little boys and their Dads,
Thanks for all the memories and the victories we shared,
We love you and miss you, Bear.
Bear of Alabama…
(Hey… Don’t be so shocked! I grew up in Tuscaloosa, you know!)
