Posted in Business, Film, Money on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My mom emigrated to country from Thailand over thirty years ago. She is a Buddhist, and yet she has quite a bit of an obsession with money. She invests in stocks and she loves watching the Nightly Business Report on PBS. This morning I talked to her about the possibility of Washington Mutual going under. [...]
Posted in Bush, Business, Economy, Food, Lies, News, Politics on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ah, the good old U.S. of A. where you can buy 5 gallon containers of mayonnaise but you can’t buy more than 20 pounds of rice. For the less than 20 some odd percent of Americans out there that still think George Bush is doing a good job, what do you think of this:
The two [...]
Posted in Bush, Business, Economy, Money, Politics, Seattle on April 18, 2008 | No Comments »
My husband and I are looking to buy a new house. On March 6, 2008 we we’re pleasantly surprised that the cap for regular mortgages would be lifted from 417k to 567k — which is definitely an advantage when you live in Seattle where the average home sells for over 400 grand. Even the headline [...]
Posted in 80's, Advertising, America, Barack Obama, Business, Decision 2008, Entertainment, Food, Mexico, Money, News, Politics, Pop Culture on April 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Forgive me if I’m late to the party on this one, but I just read that Barack Obama is looking to get Teamster support in Pennsylvania when I saw this:
On Wednesday, the Teamsters convoy made its way to Reading, Pennsylvania, where the York Peppermint Patty factory is shutting down, moving more than 250 jobs to [...]
Posted in America, Business, College, News on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s an article that about how young people shun trade jobs.
The average construction worker is well into his 40s, and unless something changes to make the fresh-from-prom set take a sudden interest in framing and drywall, that work force is just going to keep getting older.
In an industry where retirement tends to come early and [...]
Posted in Business, Humor, News on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Your boss asks you to urinate in a bag:
Union officials in Colorado say a Qwest supervisor tried to cut down on lengthy bathroom breaks by telling workmen to use disposable urinal bags in the field.
The manager distributed the bags to 25 male field technicians, telling them not to waste time leaving a job site to [...]
Posted in Business, News, Technology on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In addition to cars that know if you crossed the border into Canada:
Payless, a California based rental car company, settles a suit from their use of GPS tracking of their rental cars. The case was brought by CA’s Attorney General and the settlement requires Payless to reimburse customers who had been fined $1 per mile [...]
Posted in Business, Coffee, Humor, Money, News, Starbucks, Technology on March 20, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I found this tidbit interesting in Starbucks’ plan to re-gain market share:
Late in the two-hour meeting, Schultz revealed that Starbucks has bought The Coffee Equipment Co. of Ballard, for an undisclosed sum. Its product, the Clover, custom-makes individual cups of coffee from fresh-ground beans, using a combination of French press and vacuum techniques.
Schultz said [...]
Posted in Americana, Art, Business, Japan, Photography, Travel on March 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On this small market street near our Ryokan there are signs for businesses which remind me of American Folk Art. In America, these were popular because immigrants often could not read English so businesses used images to convey what their wares were. In Japan, these come in handy for tourists like me. Can you guess [...]
Posted in Business, Humor, Japan, Photography, Seattle, Starbucks, Travel, Washington on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As soon as I saw this in the vending machine in Tokyo, I knew I had to get a picture. Not only is the logo a complete knockoff of Starbucks but the logo and name is Mount Rainier — a mountain near and dear to my heart as it’s located in Washington state where I [...]
Posted in 90's, Business, Entertainment, Film, Humor, Pop Culture, Random on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
That was the movie tag-line for Clerks.
Here’s a blog about a guy who works at Kinkos and some of his stupid customer experiences. I’m not sure if he can sustain it, and if he can it says something about the clientele at Kinkos.
I work at Fed Ex Kinkos, and we have to deal with [...]
Posted in Advertising, Business, Coffee, Money, News, Pop Culture, Starbucks on February 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Starbucks has just announced they will close their stores for two hours to retrain their employees:
Starbucks Corp. will close the doors at nearly 7,100 of its U.S. coffee shops for three hours one night later this month to give baristas a refresher course on espresso standards.
I became a teen before the coffee craze, so while [...]
Posted in Business, Coffee, Food, Money, News, Random, Seattle, Starbucks on January 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I asked my friend Vaughan who I know likes Starbucks if he wanted the remaining balance on my Starbucks gift card. I got one for Christmas, but as I don’t really like Starbucks coffee and I don’t really approve of their world domination tactics against small business owners I didn’t want to finish the [...]
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