While at work today, someone left a bunch of books and CDs in the breakroom. Picked up some musical treasures. Check it out.
Snap’s Rhythm is a Dancer. Loungin’ (the proper remix version) by LL Cool J. Classic Coolio in Gangsta’s Paradise, and the Cranberries with Zombie.
While on the lookout for young man candy to oogle, Coco Bean came across this tidbit about UH basketball lifer, Bobby Nash, going pro in Japan, signing with the Shiga Lakestars.
Congrats Bobby! And Coco Bean, stop staring at Blaze Soares.
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Help the Army find its stolen laptops and get $10,000. Someone(s) managed to steal $118,000 worth of Dell laptops from an Army storage facility, and now a $10K reward is being offered for any leads,
This past Father’s Day featured swimming at the recently opened Mililani rec center and a trip to a very crowded Cold Stone featuring a 2-for-1 special. Here’s a picture of a shorter line that was out the doorway.
New and notable releases in the iTunes Store this week.
New and notable outside of the iTunes Store is the release of FireFox 3 which is blazingly fast!
On my way to work, I’ve seen this landscaper/gardener guy doing his thing in the morning. He’s an older guy who is a boldly dedicated worker, especially with his leaf blower. To collect up all the fallen leaves, he goes out on a busy road to blow the debris in to a nice big pile. And I mean, he goes out on the road, walking past halfway of the lane and often times blocking oncoming traffic.
He doesn’t scurry out of the way either. He keeps blowing the leaves from the road towards the sidewalk as the cars backup. How can you fault such dedication!
Do you think Hawaii drivers are bad? Now there’s some evidence validating your hunch. In a small survey taken nationwide, Hawaii drivers ranked 45 out of the 50 states on a written DMV test. Hawaii’s average score was 76.3% and I am sad to say that I brought down Hawaii’s score.
I took the 20-question test and got 70% (now really, who knows how many feet before a turn should you use your turn signal?). How about you? Take the National Driver Test and see how you score!
And before giving me smack about my lower-than-the-Hawaii-average score, be sure to reference the CourtConnect Judiciary Information Management System that publicly shows traffic violations. My middle name is not Kenji!
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Yeah, the drug Viagra is there to help men “perform,” but who knew it could help you on the baseball diamond? Seems like The Rocket and other MLBers pop a purple pill to enhance their on-the-field performance. Just how do you throw a fastball while ragin against erectile dysfunction?
Those post-game locker room interviews must get a little (t)horny.
Ever shop at the Disney Store for a gift and got a gift receipt? Do you know the gift receipt is just about worthless? If you return the gift with gift receipt, the Disney Store policy is to give back the sale price of the item, not the value paid for and documented on the gift receipt.
Here’s a transcript learning of this policy:
Cashier-“According to the gift receipt, the swimsuit was purchased at $14.50 but is on sale for $9.99 now so I can only give you merchandise credit for $9.99”
Customer- “Whaaattt???? Aren’t you supposed to give me credit for the purchase price?”
Cashier- “No, that is the store policy.”
Customer- “So what is the purpose of the gift receipt?”
Cashier-“It’s just to prove that it was a gift.”
Customer- “So why do you have numbers on it?”
Cashier- “That’s so that the person who bought the gift can return it with the original receipt.”
Customer- “That doesn’t make any sense. Have you ever shopped at Macy’s and returned anything? You get back exactly what you paid for it.”
Cashier- “That’s because Macy’s is a high-end store. This is the Disney store-we aren’t high-end like they are. All the stores like us have similar policies.”
Customer- “What??? I shop at a lot of different places and they all give me merchandise credit at the purchase price if I have a gift receipt.”
Cashier- “Let me get the manager.”
Manager comes over.
Customer- “This return policy with gift receipt doesn’t make sense. This gift receipt says that this swimsuit was purchased at $14.50 but I can only receive a merchandise credit for the sale price now?”
Manager- “Yes-that is our policy.”
Customer- “So why does it say at the bottom of this gift receipt that the merchandise credit will be issued at purchase price.”
Manager to cashier “Just give her back the credit at the purchase price.”
Oh and the original price the item was bought at is actually on the gift receipt, encoded by high end computations. You divide the numbers for a particular line item by 12. In the example above, the gift receipt showed 17400. Divide that by 12 and you get 1450 or $14.50 which is the actual purchase cost. So you can tell if you’re getting your fair value back if you need to visit the Disney Store. Or you can just stay away and avoid this store altogether.
I don’t visit YouTube enough to notice when they started providing stats and analytics for your personally contributed videos. Here’s a screen shot of my stuff over the past two weeks.
The Demographics is pretty revealing. My stuff is popular with more females and attracts the young (0-18), peaks with my peer group (35-45), and is popular with those a little older (45-55).
Hey, you two, be sure to come to our workplace on July 1. Our bosses and their bosses want to shake your hands.
Special thanks to Coco Bean who I got to work with over the past few days. Her work and effort had some interesting outcomes that paved the way for some change, slight as it might be. When I first brought up her work, the bosses were puzzled. Then as they understood, they were convinced and defended her work against questions by other management staff. Was fun to see.
Thanks Coco Bean! For your next move, it’s time to revive the Angry Asian Girl.
