I receive at least one piece of junk mail from Comcast a week. I’d like it to stop. If someone from Comcast actually reads this post, AND can get the junk mail to stop, please contact me. Thank you. (Although I realize such a person at Comcast doesn’t exist.)
I guess we’ll find out if Comcast really is reading blogs.
The local Democrats held a primary back in June to decide who should be their candidate for Congress. Leslie Byrne vs. Gerry Connolly. Here’s a summary of the political junk mail that accumulated in my crate. It seems like a huge waste of effort. The final vote tally was Connolly: 14,233, vs Byrne’s 8,196 votes. (The other two candidates received a few votes, Douglas J. Denneny got 1,508, and Lori. P Alexander 638.)
My household received 14 mailings that were “Paid for by Leslie Byrne for Congress.” Topics included:
I also found it interesting that most of her ads mentioned her web site, although none of the attack ads on Mr. Connolly did. I give Ms. Byrne credit for attempting to harness the power of the web.
My household received 6 mailings that were “Paid for by Virginia Women Vote!, a project of EMILY’s List and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.” Topics included:
I do find it interesting that the Virginia Women Vote! materials used the same photograph of Mr. Connolly that Ms. Byrne’s materials used. Were there no other photos of him available?
My household received 17 mailings that were “Paid for and authorized by Gerry Connolly for Congress.” Topics included:
Mr. Connolly never mentioned his web site in his ads. What was he scared of? I don’t think I want someone representing me in Congress who doesn’t quite understand how the web can work hand-in-hand with traditional methods of annoyingcontacting the citizens you represent.
In my most recent bill from Dominion Virginia Power, there was a letter from President David Heacock that opened with this sentence: “We are never eager to seek permission to increase prices for our customers.” The meaning he is hoping we will pick up on is that Dominion doesn’t want to increase prices (18% raise as of July 1st). The meaning I instantly read was they don’t want to seek permission to increase our prices, they’d prefer they could raise prices without asking first.
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” – William Feather
“There is just one life for each of us: our own.” – Euripides
The best Survivor season ever has just been shot to heck with that witch Parvati winning. Dang. Leaves a nasty taste in my mouth. Amanda played a much better game.
“Life is too short not to love what you do, and it’s much, much too short to wait around until someone hands you a billion dollars.” Quoted from Quit your job!
Amen! I have been more happy over the past 445 days than I was the previous who-knows-how-many days.
Four score and seven years ago today, my grandfather was born. We spent Sunday afternoon (his birthday eve) with him and other extended family. We had a great time catching up, hearing about things that have changed over the past few years. His town now has three (3!) stop lights, and the road in front of the house, and the access road to his driveway, are both paved. We looked through some photo albums too. (Nice hairdoo mom!) There’s nothing like spending time with family.
Happy Birthday Grandad! I love you!
Great article at MSNBC: Red light cameras too good for their own good?
On one of the forums I read regularly, a contributor from England has this to say while we were discussing the increasing cost of webcasting:
Here we have all kinds of environmental taxes etc. Currently fuel costs Eur. 1.55 per liter = 5.87 euro per gallon = about $9.40 per gallon
Yesterday I filled up the car, gas was $3.239 per gallon. Whew!
