Minor Observations
Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daThe back yard hammock is so more enjoyable when the next-door neighbour isn't blasting guitar-rock. Thanks to whomever rang the doorbell and got him to turn it down. I'd assumed it was ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melted_snowball... but it wasn't.
Window washing always feels a bit pointless beforehand, and OMZG such an improvement when it's done. ...I vaguely wish I could get a frontal-lobe wipedown. I mean, I feel better when I get my schedule and todo items recorded and not cluttering my brain, I wonder what other cruft is knocking around up there.
The Globe and Mail's business magazine had a (mostly useless) article on learning to haggle in day-to-day life. I hate haggling, and I'd hate living in a culture that expects it for everyday activities. But this article did have a nifty side-bar explaining Quaker influence in reducing haggling in 1700s and 1800s Britain and New England. There was a short list of companies that succeeded through their Quaker "fair trading" business practices. I knew Lloyd's and Barclays, and Cadbury's, were all started by Quakers, but I hadn't known that R. H. Macy, of Macy's was also Quaker. Neat.
Finally: I wish I were in Boston on May 15th. xkcd@MIT! :)
melted_snowball... but it wasn't. Window washing always feels a bit pointless beforehand, and OMZG such an improvement when it's done. ...I vaguely wish I could get a frontal-lobe wipedown. I mean, I feel better when I get my schedule and todo items recorded and not cluttering my brain, I wonder what other cruft is knocking around up there.
The Globe and Mail's business magazine had a (mostly useless) article on learning to haggle in day-to-day life. I hate haggling, and I'd hate living in a culture that expects it for everyday activities. But this article did have a nifty side-bar explaining Quaker influence in reducing haggling in 1700s and 1800s Britain and New England. There was a short list of companies that succeeded through their Quaker "fair trading" business practices. I knew Lloyd's and Barclays, and Cadbury's, were all started by Quakers, but I hadn't known that R. H. Macy, of Macy's was also Quaker. Neat.
Finally: I wish I were in Boston on May 15th. xkcd@MIT! :)
