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Thursday, 1/1/2015Received an email from Jessica at Sears Blue Ribbon Service, which included a case number and a friendly offer to personally assist me in resolving my issues. I'm not sure whether it was prompted by one of the various callback promises, the FaceBook post, the online feedback, or the certified letter, but I'll ( Read more... )

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Submitted online feedback via Contact Us on the Sears website with the short version of the issue, and a statement that I would be sending a letter to corporate.

Sent a letter of complaint via certified mail to Sears Holdings Corporation. ( Text reads... )

[Originally posted on FaceBook]

I have now spoken with four separate people at Sears Home Repair (and, I think, one contract subsidiary) with ZERO resolution ( Read more... )

The below-embedded video is Diane Savino speaking yesterday in support of the Marriage Equality bill before the New York Senate, and I think everyone in America should hear what she had to say. For the first time, I feel that a politician's views on a subject actually represent my own, and I wish I lived in her district, just so I could vote for ( Read more... )

From The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Trans. Lionel Giles, 1910):
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

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"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers." -- Father Mapple, Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute." -- George Bernard Shaw

I was recently Friended by , which appears to be nothing but an ad. While I'm sure the account's creator was very careful to keep within your technical limitations on such things, I would like to express my displeasure with this account even existing ( Read more... )

Sky -- 1993-2008 -- In Memoriam

Even though she was always a bit camera shy, I sometimes caught her.

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I've been rather enjoying Schlock Mercenary, though so far I've only made it to March '04 in their OMGHUGE!!1! archives. The funniest bits are the occasional author's notes. This one had me snickering for about twenty minutes.

Then there's Head Trip, which doesn't update as often as I'd like, but has some pretty good gems like this one, this one ( Read more... )