I read an interesting comment about minimum wages, specifically in regard to the hospitality industry. Tips are common place in this industry, and so those of you that feel that $8 an hour (or whatever the minimum is where you live) is too low a wage to live on are missing a HUGE part of [...]
My eldest daughter Stephanie (oh no! I’m getting old! I have a 30 year old daughter!) told me about the Macy’s ad with Gabriel Aubry. He is the lucky so and so that Halle Berry is cozy with right now!! Sigh. Anyhow, I got a good laugh out of the ad. See it here.
I just went to do a search on Google, and when I clicked on their link in “My Favourites”, the page came up black, with white lettering. My first thought was, “What happened to my monitor”. Then I saw the reference to Earth Hour. Are you turning the lights off/down?
As previously mentioned at http://grandparichardspeaks.com/opinion/how-much-does-the-boss-make, I feel that some bosses make too much. A common argument is that they are a large part of why a company does well, and so should be rewarded. Now that so many financial companies are doing so poorly, often because of bad decisions over subprime mortgages, the ugly truth [...]
Today is Pi day, named after the mathematically constant, Pi, which is approximately 3.14159. In celebration, one should share a pie with friends at exactly 1:59 on March 14. (3.14159 = 3.14 (March 14) and 159 = 1:59 pm) [...]
Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, is serving six months’ unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car. Dawn was driving home from a birthday party thrown in her honour when she was caught. It was her 69th birthday.
Have you seen the trailers for that new movie where the young man is a numbers whiz. He is working in retail and a customer asks him to work up some numbers on a group of purchases and the kid does it standing there, without a calculator. The couple look stunned when he is done, [...]
