A recent Friday was like an old fashioned field trip. I got to take a break from my normal routine. My normal routine is delivering panels of concrete to buildings under construction. I have four trucks working this job on a steady bassis. The construction of these buildings is precise, accurate and fast.
Delivering units to Havre de Grace water treatment plant
Delivering wall panels to apartment building in Bronx
I received an order that got my interest to assist in the retrieval of a commercial satellite. It seems that the launch facility was a little rough in handling the satellite and banged it around so much it was now an insurance job. I can’t understand how this could have happened.
This morning, my mother was in the process of paying her bills when she noticed an extra $50 tacked on to her home-line phone bill. The phone company told her to contact Johns Hopkins Hospital, where the billed calls had been charged to her number. When she contacted the hospital, she was told that someone claiming to be a family member had charged calls to her number while staying there recently.
A family member? Who in the family had been in the hospital? No one we knew of, and we have a pretty tight knit family. Something happens and everyone knows about it within an hour. Even so, how was someone other than her or my father allowed to use that number for billing purposes?
If it really was a family member, it was someone with my mother’s maiden name, under which ...Continue Reading
Just wanted to share a list of blogs that I check everyday for the latest news, whether local or national. What sites, besides The Dagger of course, are you checking out regularly?
I’ll first start off by saying I use Google Reader as my rss feed reader of choice. Here are a few interesting feeds I have subscribed to: (yeah, this is for my geeky side)
BuzzMachine – Jeff Jarvis’s look at the media industry
PaidContent.org – All about the economics of digital content.
Wired – a daily technology news website
Onto the news:
Local
HarfordNow.com – want a place to find all the local news feeds from Harford County on one page? Harford Now is it. Of course, I designed it.
Will giving the Big 3 automakers in Detroit (Ford, GM and Chrysler) $25 billion dollars help turn around the downward spiral they have been in for the past 25 years? Should the government be in the business of bailing them out at all?
To tell you the truth, I haven’t made up my mind about this issue. I was, and remain, against the $700 billion bailout of our financial industry, but the auto industry is so rooted in a specific area of the country. Markets can correct themselves, towns and families cannot.
On the other hand, it is clear that their current business model is inefficient and just doesn’t work. Why is that? Is it because of poor management at the executive level of the companies? Is it because of the UAW (United Auto Workers) union and ...Continue Reading
Two families have dominated US politics over the past quarter-century. The Bush family, with “41″ serving as Vice-President for eight years, then President for four, and “43″ in office for the past eight. Then there is the Clintons, with Bill serving as President for eight, and wife Hillary getting elected to the Senate and making an unsuccessful run at the Presidency.
Along comes a new shining star running on the promise of change. He soundly defeats both families on the way to the white house. Now the word is he wants to name Hillary to his top Cabinet post.
Some change. Someone wake up Jeb. He might get his chance in four years…
Delivering units to Havre de Grace water treatment plant
Delivering wall panels to apartment building in Bronx
To tell you the truth, I haven’t made up my mind about this issue. I was, and remain, against the $700 billion bailout of our financial industry, but the auto industry is so rooted in a specific area of the country. Markets can correct themselves, towns and families cannot.
