Archive for September, 2005

Sep 15 2005

Why Cedarglen Homes Sucks

Published by superfunkomatic under general rants, humour

(Update Sept 27) - Check out a local news report and video interview CFCNplus Interview with Leah Williams-Doherty - Consumer Advocate
i have a friend from past employment, Jeff Mottle (his last name is important in the context of the story), owner of cgarchitect.com who has recently purchased a house. he chose to build a house […]

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Sep 13 2005

business lingo

Published by superfunkomatic under general rants, humour

years and years of meetings in an office environment and i still cringe when i hear the following -
“we’ll use a two-pronged approach”
“we’re really working outside the box on this one”
“when the rubber hits the road…”
“it’s all about shifting paradigms”
“getting our ducks in a row”
ugh, sentence after sentence goes by in these meetings full […]

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Sep 03 2005

ridiculous to the sublime

Published by superfunkomatic under general rants, music

canadian media made an announcement today, one that i’m sure will never reach the united states, they will no longer play “new orleans is sinking” by the tragically hip until the situation improves.
first i must say, i’m devasted by the complete chaos i’ve witnessed on the news. it’s an awful situation for all of the […]

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Sep 01 2005

sting of gasoline prices

Published by superfunkomatic under general rants

should it come to anyone’s surprise that oil companies are taking advantage of a bad situation - hurricane katrina. blaming low supply as a factor for increasing prices north america wide for gasoline prices. apparently nearly 500 million barrels are socked away in texas for a situation just like this - more than enough to […]

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Sep 01 2005

rationalizing an “appropriate” killing

a report today of a reuters journalist being killed in iraq. apparently hanging out the window of a fast moving car, holding “something” is just cause for american troops to kill someone on site. the horrible thing is they claim a soldier’s reaction to shoot and kill them was “appropriate”. the journalist was middle eastern […]

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