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Benefit Cosmetics, suck it.

The email address *they* use?  no-reply@benefitcosmetics.com.   Honest to @#$ing God, I will never buy one of their products again. If one of their employees happens by, I’ve tried: The unsubscribe link..it didn’t work I tried politely asking…that didn’t work … Continue reading

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A thought for Target

Target often doesn’t mark the prices on anything and you’re lucky to find the correct price on the shelf. I wonder how they’d respond if, when it was time to pay, I handed them a blank credit card and the … Continue reading

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Benefit Cosmetics, WTF??

They’ve sent me ads again.   This time they’ve gotten the message below.  Next time?  I’m going to spam THEM every single day via their site.   Let’s see how they like it.  @#$holes. I’ve unsubscribed, I’ve complained when that … Continue reading

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I finally got it done!

**UPDATE**  I’ve taken the set off of sale for now; the black king has developed cracks in the glow.  Again.  Assume (and rightly so) there’s a lot of cursing implied here. It was a lot of trial and error I … Continue reading

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Why I’m annoyed with public television

The kids woke up earlier than I might otherwise have liked this morning, so I was nice, let my wife sleep and got the kids around to go downstairs to watch cartoons. We’re not a Thundercats, GI Joe, or Spiderman … Continue reading

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Hmmph, Disney hates the handicapped

Interesting, Disney is shunning deaf people. http://consumerist.com/5405145/disney-removes-closed-captioning-from-up-rental-release

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I’m famous. Sort of :)

A while back I got a call from Marketplace’s Alisa Roth asking if I’d be willing to help out with a story about Hyundai.  Given we’ve owned 3 now, I said sure!   Well, a little while back they sent … Continue reading

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Help stimulate the US economy

A while back, I was introduced to Margaret Swain, the owner of a shop located in Cherry Valley, MA that features only American made items.  After a brief chat, she agreed to carry some of my glass through her shop. … Continue reading

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Torch Bugs!

If you’re like me, you have several glass haunts online.  One of my current favorites is Torch Bugs, one of the latest lampworking sites, and a pretty mellow place to boot. What sets Torch Bugs apart from the other sites? … Continue reading

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Smash ‘em in effigy!

Fed up with the twits running Twitter?  Kicked out of your space on MySpace?  Faced on Facebook? Well you can’t really smack the engineers behind social networking sites around, but now you can smash them in effigy. I introduce to … Continue reading

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