I have tried to convert everyone I know over to this little gem. If you have ever forgotten one of your passwords, then this app should be an easy sell. It’s one of the best apps I have ever found and it’s open source. If you need a password manager, try it. You’ll like it.
… and you don’t have to leave your house! This Saturday in Blacksburg don’t forget to leave a couple of those can goods that have been sitting in your kitchen cabinet for months, the ones you bought and swore you were going to eat but haven’t, by your mailbox. Your friendly neighborhood postal carrier will pick them up and deliver them to the food bank. Free of charge. Can’t beat that. Help feed the poor and you don’t even have to leave home!
Is she really going to try to make this a black and white thing? I’m white and I’d still vote for Obama if he sprouted horns and started carring a pitch fork.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
Twitter spammers not long for this world. I didn’t get many when I first started using it but they are coming in on a regular basis now. I don’t use twitter for shopping so don’t bother following me if you are only out to sell a product.
Sodahead poll on my web site is showing that most people shop at Walmart. Could it be? Is this another example of those that make the most noise represent the minority opinion?
Ok, someone give me their take on the whole “Big Box Debate” because from my perspective it just seems like a bunch of selfish property owners and their “not in my backyard” attitude. I find it very hard to believe these people have never shopped at Walmart and they were fine with it being near someone else’s home in Christiansburg but now that someone wants to build it near their homes here in Blacksburg, suddenly it’s “Walmart is the Evil Empire” and “they will destroy our town!” Very convenient, is it not? I love that about these armchair activists. They were completely content to do nothing until it personally effected them. I never heard these people talking about the evils of Walmart before they decided to build one here in Blacksburg.
Another thing. Has anyone in Blacksburg taken a minute while in this part of town and stopped and really took a good look at this project? It’s huge! I took some photos this afternoon and my first thought was what difference did one big box store matter in the grand scope of things when it would be next to this sprawling complex? Take a look at the site plan above and the pictures I put up on Flickr below.
So, I ask you? Is this about Walmart being an evil corporation? Is this about allowing a big store into the town of Blacksburg? Or is it something else entirely that I am missing? Personally, I don’t have a problem with big box stores. They sell me products I want or need at a cheaper price than smaller “Mom & Pop” places can. If I save more of my hard earned money do you really think I am going to miss the Mom & Pop stores? Here’s a prime example. Across the street from the proposed Walmart site is Eats Natural Foods Co-Op, the classic Mom & Pop operation. They will sell me a bag of pre-popped popcorn for $3.30. I can get the very same bag of popcorn across the street for $1.00 from Kroger. Where would you buy the popcorn? Granted, organic food store prices are ridiculously high, but that’s another story. To some degree it still comes down to the size of their respective operations.
To offer us these cheaper prices Walmart outsources to third world countries because they employ a cheaper work force and people say this is bad for the US and the Chinese worker. Has anyone asked the Chinese worker their opinion? They just might like their new factory job making dust pans and it wasn’t a job I was doing here in the US. Yes, I know. Now I am being selfish but then again I aspired to a little more than a factory job making dust pans when I finished my schooling.
Ok, I have been ranting long enough. I want to hear someone else’s opinion. Please enlighten me to the real story behind all this hub bub. “The Great Big Box Debate“. I’m all ears.
Welcome to the last page on the Internet. This has to be the last page because I don’t think you would be here if it wasn’t. You have browsed to every other page on the Internet and now you are here because you have read everything else. Well, as long as you are here I will try to entertain you as best I can. Some of the things you might read about on this site will deal with computers, photography, gaming and rescue but I will undoubtedly rant on some off the wall topics every once in a while. So, sit back. Do a little reading on the minutiae of my life and hopefully you’ll get a good laugh out of it from time to time. I’d thank you for stopping by but we both know you didn’t have any where else to be! :)
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