Thrifty is nifty

I was surprised earlier today when my mother pulled out three “empty” bottles of Gold Bond hand lotion (the pump style) and cut them open with a knife.  I asked “what in the world are you doing?”  She replied “salvaging hand lotion.  There’s a lot of lotion left in these bottles!  She ended up getting [...]

“X”-Mart is a bad place to work - Case #3

Thursday, 2 October 2008, 20:16 | Category : Business, Community and/or Society, Education and Personal Growth, Family and Friends, General living
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Sorry for the delay - here is the promised third case of why “X”-Mart is a bad place to work:
I’ll call this relative “Y” to protect her identity.  “Y” is a very shy, introverted person, who tries her best to be a team player and do her job to the best of her ability.  She has [...]

Tricks of the trade

Over the years I’ve learned some interesting things about tricks restaurants use on their customers.  A long time ago I read some literature about how different colors effect different moods.  For example, red, yellow and orange are “high energy” colors and are often used in fast food restaurants because the restaurants know that those colors [...]

Substance abuse rehabilitation in Malibu

Cliffside Malibu is an exclusive rehabilitation center for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts in Malibu California. As an Alcohol Rehab Center and Drug Abuse Rehab center, their programs include Alcohol Rehab and Drug Detox, along with drug rehab.  They also treat eating disorders and depression.  In addition to state of the art treatment methods, they [...]

13 million-digit prime number

I was reading on the Yahoo news website that a new Mersenne prime number has been discovered by UCLA mathematicians last month. It has 13 million digits! They discovered the number by using a network of seventy five different computers running Windows XP. (Take THAT Vista!) (I don’t like Vista!)
The discovery makes them eligible for a [...]