Archive for January, 2008

31
Jan

Eons.com Jumps the Shark

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Blogging, Entertainment, Technology

A boomer targeted website is going down the tubes. Jeff Taylor who started Monster is behind EONS. Now it looks as though he is 1 for 2 because I just can’t see them hanging on in this space (no pun intended.) Savvy Boomer did a great job tracking them from the very beginning and has [...]
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31
Jan

This Month’s Best Headline

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Writing

With Trends Like These Who Needs Enemas? You know how 10-year-old boys have competitions to see who can come up with the grossest thing? Well, watch and learn, kids. Tune in tomorrow when I reveal the five grossest things I will do.
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31
Jan

Making the Comittment to Go Green As Long As I Can

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Advertising, M & Ms, Shopping

With the help of my two good friends: the CVS manager and MyGoodCents I am going green. First, MyGoodCents is a CVS shopping expert. She gets armloads of stuff for just nickels. I really enjoy her “found money” posts. I went into CVS and picked up a large bag of M&M’s and took them to the counter [...]
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31
Jan

The Best Deal In The State Shouldn’t Be So Low

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Baby Boomer, Empty Nesters, Money, Technology

State government needs some advice from the CEO of a really good retail store. While lawmakers fumble around deciding which tax to raise on who and for how long - or which program to cut by how much and for how long, they are sitting on a gold mine. The CEO could advise them on pricing [...]

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31
Jan

I Never Dreamed I Would Be Memed

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Baby Boomer, Blogging

Thanks to Grandma Henke, I get to share with you “blog about five things in my life that I never dreamed, when I was 25, would be in my life now”. I think a revealing part of her post was that she tagged sister who doesn’t have a blog! I guess she has to [...]

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30
Jan

Great New Idea, Just Needs a Few Tweaks

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Baby Boomer, Family, Health, Money, Research, Technology

On the surface this seemed like a bandwagon I could leap onto like a musical instrument salesman would jump on a librarian. But during a five minute car ride which I nearly ran over a jogger, a walker, a pokey driver, and a kid on a bike, I decided there already is just the right number [...]

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30
Jan

Big Wind Blew in From Winetka, Big Wind Blew Right Out Again.

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Technology

High winds knocked out our power last night. All we had for background noise was the weather radio. We were OK, until the computer voice gave the fear inducing warning: blah, blah, blah, exclamation point, backslash, right bracket, double you, eye, left bracket, blah, blah, blah In case you don’t have a NOAA weather radio, the same message [...]

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30
Jan

I Cancelled My Myspace.com Account Today

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Technology

I signed up over a year ago, and immediately it created a problem in our house when I started getting email from various young things willing to do various things for and to me. Try as I might, I couldn’t convince Nancy that these were just spam messages and nothing that I had instigated. So [...]

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