OK, this is a little off-topic, but still pretty funny. Last Friday night I went with my wife, brother-in-law, and a friend to Barnes and Noble for the release of the last Harry Potter book. I’ve gone with the wife before to these releases and although I’m not a Potter fan, I always thought the [...]
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The web is always a fascinating place, and what people are searching for is equally as fascinating. Apparently among the ranks of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears is a celebrity of equally great stature. Yes, I’m talking about our old friend Hammy the Squirrel from Over the Hedge. For whatever reason over the last week [...] OK, not really personal finance related, but I thought this site was pretty cool. There’s some other crap there too, but the cool feature is that you can create a customized map showing what states and countries you have visited. Mine is below. The site is www.travbuddy.com . My map here! I posted previously about a sweetheart deal where the City of Houston was leasing 6 acres of prime real estate valued at $26 million to a non-profit for a whopping $1 per year. Mayor Bill White and city officials began reviewing some of these leases and had decided that this particular lease was no longer [...] I posted a little while back about my brother-in-law’s adventures with Northwest Airlines trying to get from Houston to Gatlinburg Tennessee. In summary, he missed his original flight due to unusual traffic backups, a fender-bender in the airport parking garage, a change in gate to a different terminal, and a broken metal detector (none of [...] OK, this may seem very cold, but this story just rubbed me the wrong way. Here in Houston, there is a big controversy because the city wants to terminate the lease it holds with the Houston Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation. The issue is that the center sits on a six acre piece of [...] |
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