Posted by Laura on January 9th, 2009 at 6:00am
Our Free-For-All column runs on Fridays and is just that-a potpourri of the strange, the unusual, and whatever strikes our fancy.
Here are reader favorites from 2008 (feel free to reprint the links on your own site):
Laura’s Revolutionary Biz Card List-Making System
http://heblogssheblogs.com/list-making-system/
New Luxury Airline: Weigh Less. Pay Less.
http://heblogssheblogs.com/derrie-air/
‘Alexandria Impolite’: Spell Checker Mangles Names in High School [...]
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Posted by Laura on December 30th, 2008 at 8:14pm
Have you ever had to use the toilet and couldn’t find one? That’s what the 150 children who attend school in the Haitian village of Les Fonds face every day. Their school does not have any kind of toilet facilities.
The cost to build a quality latrine (aka, outhouse) for the school is $3,000 (USD). We [...]
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Posted by Jim on December 24th, 2008 at 5:00am
Science!
You want to know if Santa is real? We must use hard scientific data to prove or disprove the existence of the the big fat fellow.
Let’s start with the Santa atheists. (This is my condensed version so you’ll have time to wrap that last present. Full version here.)
1. No known species of reindeer can fly.
2. [...]
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Posted by Laura on December 19th, 2008 at 6:00am
Do you ever get fed up with the health gurus who spoil the holidays by advising you how to eat right and stay fit during this oh-so-tempting time of year?
The author of the following e-mail took it upon herself or herself (it didn’t include a byline) to help us assuage holiday-food-binge-guilt by suggesting a new–and [...]
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Posted by Jim on November 28th, 2008 at 2:39pm
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” Annie Dillard.
Before we stuff our faces on Thanksgiving my family and extended family gathers in a circle and tells a few things we’re thankful for from the previous year.
Among other things, I mentioned my youngest son’s choice this [...]
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Posted by Laura on November 7th, 2008 at 12:24pm
I was going to leave a comment on Jim’s post, How Not To Treat Potential Customers, but decided it merited a more thorough response.
She says:
Jim’s a chick magnet, and wherever we go, women follow adoringly in his wake. So when I spotted Jim across the (Seattle Auto Show) convention floor, sitting in a convertible and [...]
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Posted by Jim on November 7th, 2008 at 5:00am
Laura and I dropped by the Seattle Auto Show yesterday. We’d like to do for them what we’ve done for the Seattle and San Fran Flower & Garden Shows.
Laura got there first–about an hour before I did. Guess how many auto manufacturers reps approached her before I arrived. Yep. Zilch. Zero. Nada.
Once I got there we (I) heard plenty about torque, zero to sixty, horsepower, [...]
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Posted by Laura on October 17th, 2008 at 5:00am
Here at HeBlogsSheBlogs.com, we function as a virtual office, with each member of our team working from home computers scattered throughout the U.S.
Jim and I live about 10 miles apart, so we’re able to carpool to meetings with clients in the Seattle area.
One of the biggest surprise benefits of managing a virtual office is its [...]
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Posted by Laura on October 3rd, 2008 at 8:29am
The vice-presidential nomination of Sarah Palin has re-ignited the “mommy wars.” Moms everywhere are spending countless hours debating–and fighting–about the candidates. Less than half an hour ago, one of my friends dropped by and we spent a few minutes jawing about last night’s VP debate and our general dissatisfaction with the way ALL the candidates [...]
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