When I saw this product at the grocery store...


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Yes, they do! A couple of my local grocery stores have eggnog on the shelves.

The packet I received from TD with my new credit card is headed: "Thank you for consenting to your TD [blah blah] Card." Though I know that that's based on recent scandals involving people being signed up for bank services without their consent, it still seems like a remarkably negative way of putting it ( Read more... )

A different version of print-on-demand publication sleaze: Ronald Cohn and Jesse Russel are listed as authors of more than 200,000 books in the Amazon and Indigo catalogues.  What these "books" actually consist of is print-on-demand trade paperbacks of Wikipedia articles.  You order a book, they print off the W'pedia article and bind it, and it ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago, Steven McNulty from Edward Jones financial advisors stopped by our house.  mentisiterinvit gave him our phone number.  (I don't know why, but that's up to her.)  Since then he has been calling every few weeks.  This afternoon he called again, while I was busy and unable to pick up the phone, and left no message.  I called him back ( Read more... )

I find it disturbing that the upcoming Hunger Games movie is being heavily promoted by a tie-in campaign by Subway.
There's a new chocolate cereal product called "Krave".  The name (and its spelling) make me twitch from the start.  Then there's the advertising ( Read more... )

I'm trying to install a new bathroom fan.  The spinning part of the old unit gets loose on its axle and develops loud and complex beat patterns.  ("RA-ta-ta-TA-ta... RA-ta-ta-TA-ta... RA-ta-ta-ta-TA-ta-ta-ta-RA-ta-ta-ta-TA-ta-ta-ta...")  The new unit is much more sturdy and appears to be better constructed, with a more solid motor ( Read more... )

Rogers One Number is a service provided by Rogers which allows one to make phone calls from a computer or other similar device with a microphone, sending data over broadband.  It's essentially a VoIP system that can be associated with a Rogers phone number, to make calls as though they were coming from that number.  One can regard it as a way of ( Read more... )

Don't make long-distance calls from a pay telephone using a credit card. Seriously ( Read more... )

I've noticed that a lot of the ready-to-cook food items now carry warnings about how well-cooked the food has to be to be safe.

But how do I measure the internal temperature of, say, ravioli immersed in boiling water, to make sure that it's at least 74°C?  (Just 73° wouldn't be safe.  Or just waiting until it floats and has a reasonable texture for ( Read more... )