Does this company respect me? Try the sticker test.

LOL. I got a good laugh out of this one and had to pass it along. Im not sure how many times I have thought the same thing.

Call off the expensive market research and fire the analysts and consultants.

Here’s a great way to find out if a company that makes physical products respects their products and their customers: if there’s a sticker on the product, and it peels off cleanly (and without tearing), then they’re a respectful company. If it tears or leaves sticky residue that you need to scrape off with a razor, then they don’t.

It’s that simple.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium: Giant Octopus Exhibit

You may not know this, but an octopus has a very keen sense of taste and can tell the difference between people just by putting his suckers on you. This is a little fact that I learned while away this past weekend with Amy, Chris B, Sue and Matty at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a fun little field trip we took from San Francisco this past weekend. I asked if I could get the octopus to suck on me to see if we could be friends and somehow that was weird.

Anyway, it cost about $22 a person and we spent a few hours wondering through otters, trout, octopus, penguins and lots of other fish. It was a pretty good time and was only a few short hours away.

Sorry, no photos. The camera batteries died on the first photo.
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Giant Octopus Exhibit

Sending money just got Easier

Sending money just got easier! Send money conveniently to friends and family. Instead of mailing a check, send money by phone with a service that you trust…PayPal.com.

Once your phone is activated, text the amount you would like to send, along with the receivers phone number, to the PAYPAL number and the money will be transferred from your account to theirs. In my instance, if you text money to my cell phone number, it will get sent to my personal paypal account because I have attached that number to it. This sounds really cool to me and can see some cool things happening with this.