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The Dog House Go Woke, Go Broke: Why I’m Passing on Supergirl
Hollywood keeps asking why audiences stay home. My answer to the new Supergirl ad was simple: no thank you. Go woke, go broke.
Out to Pasture QuickBooks Not Windows 10 Compatible
Windows 10 has been in general release since last July, and since that time Intuit has released yet another version of its desktop accounting software as well: QuickBooks 2016. However,…
Out to Pasture Windows 10: A Sys Admin’s Preview
I eagerly await how the actual delivery of these features turns out, but this very well could be the turning point that takes the public scorn of Vista and 8-8.1 out of the public consciousness and replaces it with something business users and managers have been anxiously awaiting over a decade.
Feed Store The fleecing of Idaho: A prescription drug coverage scheme
If you’ve had to get your own healthcare, then you’ve seen Mountain Health Co-op; the newest addition to the Idaho marketplace. Unfortunately, they are playing an all-too-familiar game with their…
Feed Store Free Appliance Pickup: Convenience, or Raw Deal?
If you’ve ever heard those commercials from your local power company urging you to use less electricity, then you’ve heard the plea to use wisely, conserve energy, and they even offer to pick up your old appliances for free if you buy new energy efficiency ones. Sometimes they even offer to pay you a small amount of money to pick them up for you. It seems like a decent gesture on the surface of it, why else would they want to haul away your broken appliances?
Feed Store The Magical Mystery Batch, how bank’s use it to rip you off.
Some banks have changed how they process payables, and by payables I mean those checks or other types of transactions that pay funds from your bank account to other people or businesses. This type of processing, which for simplicity’s sake I’ll call the Magical Mystery Batch...
The Dog House Craigslist Pet resellers: How to stop them cold
There has been a lot of drama about serial pet re-selling (selling a pet you just got for free or cheep on Craigslist) on Craigslist recently, I'll explain how that happens and give you a few basic tips on how to stop from being a victim:
Feed Store China Palace: Masters of disaster
The food itself is average Americanized Chinese fare with the usual staple offerings, nothing outstanding, but not too bad either; kind of a study in middle-of-the-road adequacy if you will. But what we found next will curl your hair...
Feed Store Garden City’s Egg Factory: A study in mediocrity
My wife’s been bugging me to try out the egg factory, so this morning we gathered up the kids and went to see how it was. ...All in all, the experience was somewhat less than satisfying, but Julie, Bubba & Skittles, (our three dogs) were very grateful for the leftovers we brought home.
Out to Pasture My first 10 minutes with iOS 7
Texts are definitely easier to read, so I can see some benefit to the new color scheme in some places, but in others it’s just plain annoying. Themes anyone?
Feed Store When Telephone services become telephony
Technology gripe of the day: Something I found out about my phone service provider recently that I found very surprising: They may not actually BE your telephone service…
The Dog House Shelter-Skelter: A true story of death, deceit and betrayal at the Boise Humane Society animal shelter
I wrote this article a few year back when my wife & I used to volunteer for the Boise shelter… Fostering animals for the Boise Humane Society is at best,…
Other sections
- The Dog House Stories about folks being their own worst enemy
- Pecking Order Politics, elections and who’s running the roost
- Feed Store Tipping, money and what things are really worth
- Fence Line Veterans, country and where we draw the line
- Front Porch Faith, family, gratitude and the quiet stuff worth sitting with
- Out to Pasture Retired tech and old reflections, still worth a read
