Archive | June, 2007

21 June 2007 0 Comments

Greenspan Going After Dow Jones

I gotta give him credit, he’s got balls.
Greenspan: I’d like to purchase your company.
Dow Jones: Certainly. May I ask why?
Greenspan: For spite.
Dow Jones: Spite?
Greenspan: That’s right. I don’t care for the company that is bidding for you.
Dow Jones: I don’t think you can buy a company for spite.
Greenspan: Well So fine then ..then I just [...]

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18 June 2007 1 Comment

Bonds At Fenway

Got a chance to sit in some great seats to see the Sox play the Giants this past Sunday at Fenway Park, even got to see Bond’s toss #748 over the right field wall. Not surprisingly, Bonds was booed heartily each time he came up, but the sign of the day goes to the guy [...]

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14 June 2007 2 Comments

Raising Money For Charity: Extortion Style

Single Life In The City is dead on regarding charity walks.
Boston held another “walk for charity” in which thousands of pedestrians clog our already crowded busy roadways (i.e. Beacon Street and Kenmore Square to name but a few). Really? cuz, it’s not like it’s hard to get around this god forsaken city as it is [...]

14 June 2007 0 Comments

Somerville Whores

Here at work we were fiddling with the Yelp.com search and doing some usability research, and for fun, we threw the word “whores” into the search field, and left the city as Boston.
One of the top results was “Tufts University-Medford Somerville Campus”.
I didn’t say it, Yelp did.

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