Month: March 2005

The New York Times > Washington > How to Unite Congress: Spend Billions on Projects for Roads: “‘It’s estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created,’ said Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois.” – Am I the only person in this country who realizes that this type… Continue reading The New York Times > Washington > How to Unite Congress: Spend Billions on Projects for Roads

TV TURNOFF 2005 – Adbusters -TV-B-Gone sounds like a fun gadget to carry around in ones purse.

Those are the last words of a character named Lady, arguably the protagonist in Tennessee Williams’ “Orpheus Descending.” The play wrapped up Saturday night, and I was happy to be done with it. We struck the set (which is theater lingo for taking all the props down and putting everything back the way we found… Continue reading The show is over, the monkey is dead

I just sent this note to the University of Colorado Federal Credit Union: Hi, I tried the drive-up ATM at the Lafayette branch last week. The user experience was so incredibly bad as to be laughable. If I didn’t have the patience of a saint, I probably would’ve just given up on the damn thing!… Continue reading ATM user experience from hell