It is really a moot point...

at 07/06/10 9:33AM
I have to admit, while I enjoy Pleo. I am abandoning it for another. For the last few months I have spent much more time on Facebook than pleo. And that will likely be the case for the foreseeable future.

Way to go Stimulus

at 06/02/10 10:25AM


The dotted line shows the moving average...inferring the car purchases were not increased, only moved forward by a month or so.
  • sjean
    It's really interesting to see the dotted line through the cash for clunkers and aftermath.
    by sjean at 06/02/10 10:27AM
  • jabberwock
    Predictably so.
    by jabberwock at 06/03/10 8:18AM
  • adampual
    Yeah, that wasn't predictable at all!
    by adampual at 06/11/10 1:09PM
  • AlanL
    Looks like there must've been another stimulus program in March and April of this year. How else could sales have increased?
    by AlanL at 06/29/10 11:12AM
  • ceoltoir
    We haven't seen any pictures in a while.
    by ceoltoir at 06/29/10 11:18AM
  • jabberwock
    I think you're right about 2.3. I've changed it, and I'll be posting the revision on the Hymnal group (which you should join, btw).
    by jabberwock at 08/03/10 11:33AM
  • ceoltoir
    Pet pig Penelope - nice alliteration.
    by ceoltoir at 10/25/10 10:57AM

Passenger Bill of Rights

at 04/29/10 3:16PM
Does anyone else think it is odd that new "Passenger Bill of Rights" for airline travel can charge airlines up to $27,500 per person on a flight for excessive delays payable to the government? That is right...the money isn't paid to the people who actually suffered...it is paid to the government.

Interesting as well is the fact that many of the delays are currenlty be attributed to poor air traffic control, a government entity.

So let me get this straight...if ATC leads to a lengthy delay...airlines can be fined...with the benefit going to...wait for it...wait for it the ATC.

Great plan. No perverse incentives there.
  • sjean
    Not even surprised any more.
    by sjean at 04/29/10 4:04PM
  • lilsis
    haha, nuts
    by lilsis at 04/29/10 4:44PM
  • wifelet
    Awesome.
    by wifelet at 04/30/10 6:59PM
  • jlmanager
    Why do you think they raised such a stink over Spirit charging for using the overhead bin? The government only gets a cut of the actual fare, so any fees added to avoid increasing fares means $$$ the government doesn't get a cut of.
    by jlmanager at 05/01/10 7:29PM
  • frogkisser
    All the more reason to take ridiculously long cross country trips in my car.
    by frogkisser at 05/04/10 4:36PM
  • adampual
    Ditto.
    by adampual at 06/11/10 1:10PM

A piece of music I enjoy...

at 04/20/10 4:41PM
  • ceoltoir
    The song's okay and all but what I really want to find on here is the story to which your mom alluded on your wife's blog. :-)
    by ceoltoir at 04/21/10 5:06PM

Baby Malone, the sequel...coming to a theater near Smyrna, TN in October

at 03/15/10 10:51AM
  • wifelet
    You might want to plan to have the baby in a hospital, rather than a theater ...
    by wifelet at 03/15/10 11:30AM
  • sjean
    That would be a very non traditional childbirth.
    by sjean at 03/15/10 11:53AM
  • jlmanager
    So dramatic.
    by jlmanager at 03/15/10 7:01PM
  • girl_husted
    Are you selling tickets yet?
    by girl_husted at 03/15/10 7:09PM
  • adam_m
    You guys have a weird sense of humor.
    by adam_m at 03/16/10 8:40AM
  • candesmama
    "An operating theater (or theatre) was a tiered theatre or amphitheatre in which students and other spectators could watch surgeons perform surgery. Today the term is sometimes used synonymously with operating room (OR) or operating suite, the room within a hospital where surgical operations are carried out today."

    ...it could happen especially if a cesarean were the case :)
    by candesmama at 03/16/10 4:25PM
  • lilsis
    Part of the reason for the layoffs was that AT&T has been trying to work with the union since last Dec. The union has refused to budge and keeps demanding more pay and better benefits on the new contract. The company came back and fired a bunch of people to make a "statement" to the union. My dad was afraid of that and actually voted for the contract, against the union. Stupid union... don't they realize what the economy is like?
    by lilsis at 03/23/10 4:39PM