Archive for August, 2009

The Mac and the PC

So I’ve been using my MacBook Pro for a few weeks now. Here’s what I’ve learned:
Windows laptops are the uncouth construction workers at the job site. MacBooks are the classy, beautiful woman the workers whistle at when she walks by.

Phoenix 21 comes to Glendale

Today, we were the fortunate recipients of one of Tyson Crosbie’s images from his Phoenix 21 exhibition. We’re displaying the image in our home for a month as part of Tyson’s Home Exhibit social experiment (vlog posts here and here). Although we weren’t initially selected, Kevin Spidel bequeathed his image to us, since he’s in [...]

Twitter + inflight wifi = ???

I was reading this article from MSNBC (Frustrated tweets new headache for airlines) and I wondered what will happen when airlines finally move inflight wifi from the trial stage into full rollout. How will airlines react when passengers can tweet, blog and e-mail their frustrations while in the air?  Are the airlines are prepared for [...]

What "original" do they mean?

I was looking at my can of Coke today and I realized that it proudly proclaimed that it’s “original formula”. I got to thinking, “What exactly do they mean by  original?” Obviously not the actual original, as cocaine-laced soft drinks are generally considered by law enforcement to be illegal narcotics. Also, they probably don’t mean [...]

Get working!

I just learned (from my amazing trivia fact calendar) that Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents, 424 of which were for electric light and power. Seriously. The guy’s electrical patents alone would have amounted to an incredible body of work. But that was less than half of his total patents!
Some of his hundreds of inventions have [...]

The awesome customer service rolls on!

Last week, the Petro household ran out of our fantastic carpet cleaner. You’re probably thinking, “You guys don’t have kids, why do you need carpet cleaner?” Well, we have cats. Two of them. They’re great cats, but they tend to hack up hairballs at interesting locations which are almost always carpeted.
In order to combat the [...]

Golfing across the generations

This past week, I was golfing as part of my summer golf league. My dad and I are on the same team in the league, so we were golfing together. Rounding out our foursome were a pair of guys from another team.
One of the guys from the other team told us that he’d been golfing [...]

More customer service done awesomely

Apparently I’m on a crusade to highlight good customer service. I didn’t really intend to set out on such an adventure, but I recently was on the receiving end of more awesome customer service, so I had to let it be known.
Larry is our landscaper guy. He was recommended to us by our neighbors and [...]

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