Yesterday while removing my address from Direct Mail America’s database, I was presented with this crap:
Important: You have selected to eliminate all mailings from organizations participating in the DMA Mail Preference Service.
Are you sure you want to proceed?
The average household can save $1422 dollars per year from marketing offers. By eliminating all mail offers not only will you miss out on these savings, but you’ll miss out on at least 80% of all commercial offers and discounts!
And you will miss the environmental benefits of shopping at home rather than driving to the mall!
By replacing just two shopping trips to the mall each year with shopping by catalogs or direct mail, DMA estimates that Americans could:
- Reduce the amount we drive by 3.3 billion miles.
- Reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 3 billion pounds.
- Save more than $490 million on gas costs.
$1,422 per year? Really?
I’ve noticed many times on taking my recycling to my floor’s trash room, that nearly everything in the recycling bin is beer bottles, wine bottles, and liquor bottles. And they aren’t all mine.
So I just discovered this cool bit of information: digital cameras (such as cell phones) are infrared sensitive, which means that if you point an IR remote control at the lens, you can see whether or not your batteries work.
As noted earlier, I have started listening to my iPod and riding a bicycle, both with the added benefit that it makes it difficult for panhandlers to approach me. But they have been a little more aggressive recently. They try yelling over my music or waving at me before I bicycle past them. I have started to listen to my iPod while riding, but it is only a matter of time until they adapt and begin yelling before I speed past them.
By use of this photo I am in no way suggesting that Seven of Nine or Jeri Ryan is in any way homeless. I am personally unaware of her current financial and/or housing situations.
This weekend while shopping at The Giant, I saw a man wearing a kilt. Now I’m not passing judgement, and more power to a man who can do something like that, but I thought it was rather entertaining that he obviously wasn’t on his way to or from any pub performance or anything of the sort. His hair was dissheveled and he was wearing a baggy tee shirt and shower flip flops. It was likely the most comfortable thing to throw on or the only thing he owned that was clean.
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