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Thanks to TechCrunch for this humorous look at the banking economy. Basketball fans who’ve been watching the bank failures and consolidations recently will understand and appreciate this September Madness chart. This is so sad.

more cat pictures One of my mom’s favorite stories about me: I was probably almost a year old and had learned to climb. Mom left me alone with Daddy so she could run an errand. She included a warning something like, “if she’s quiet, something is wrong.” I helped myself up to the tank on [...]

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Quick, someone tell Grammar Girl! Our local TV station ran a quick story about a shooting in College Station. Unfortunately, their mis-use of quotation marks around the word accidental implies that there is more to the story—that perhaps the shooting was intentional or made to look like an accident. Shame on you, KBTX! Unless you [...]

We went to bed on Friday knowing the storm would come through in the middle of the night. At 6:30am, we woke up and watch the trees sway for a few minutes. We looked out of each window of our home and saw no evidence of any damage. We went back to sleep. At 11am, [...]

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http://www.businesswritingblog.com/business_writing/2008/09/the-beauty-of-e.html Lynn Gaertner-Johnston’s article, “In Praise of Email” highlight an example showing the biggest reason I like to conduct business by email. “…we overuse email….we should pick up the phone more often…. But sometimes email can be better than a phone call. …when busy, we can forget a crucial step such as typing or recording [...]

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I looked all over for the source for this, but couldn’t find where it originally appeared. It’s all over the ‘net, now. I can’t believe I never saw it.