Category: misc

Another successful “pay what you want” experiment

In the vein of Radiohead’s famous “pay whatever you want” distribution of its last album, a restaurant in the UK has decided to ask diners to pay whatever they feel their food is worth during the month of February. And surprise surprise – it’s working:

“Anything between a penny and 50 pounds ($70) will make me happy, it’s entirely up to the customer to decide,” Ilic said on Tuesday, sounding confident about the prospects as he sat on a purple couch is his brightly colored, arty restaurant, known for its bistro-style Mediterranean cuisine.

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If people like something, they’ll pay for it, the idea goes, and already Ilic has seen evidence that it works.

“Customers have already paid 20 percent more than the original price,” he said, confident that he will more than cover his expenses for the month. “People want to be polite and would be embarrassed not to pay enough.”

I’m glad to hear it. Here’s hoping the experiment is a great success and that others try the same thing.

Obama made me late for work.

No seriously, the guy’s whole motorcade drove right by me, within about fifty feet of my car. As a result of his passing, the intersection I was at was closed off by cops from right when I got there til about 10 minutes later when he had driven by. It’s like he’s out to get me for voting McCain.

Those presidential limos are pretty cool though.

Edit: here are some photos and news tidbits about the protestors at Obama’s speech that took place just up the street from me today.

Super Bowl post

I waited a day to cool down before writing this, because as anyone who knows me can attest to, I was a bit hotheaded after the game last night – watching my team lose and then having someone smash my windshield in.

Let me start off by saying that was one of the best, if not the best, games I’ve ever seen – and sure I’m probably biased because it was my Cardinals in the Super Bowl – so sue me. A record-breaking comeback and then a heartbreaker of a perfect catch made this a game I won’t forget.

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We’re screwed

You know, I didn’t think the recession would be that bad in the big scheme of thing. Rising costs of production suck, sure, but they can be dealt with. Jobs becoming a little scarcer is harsh too, but we can address it… but then I stumbled across this and realized our nation is doomed.

To offset the cost increases of cookie ingredients, Girl Scouts of the USA made the decision to shrink its cookie boxes by a centimeter, package fewer cookies into boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs, and reduce the size of its Lemon Chalet Crèmes.

Okay Bernake, now it’s personal.

Happy Anniversary

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of this blog. Today I posted my 100th post here.  In that year, I’ve gotten 15,803 hits (11,000 in one day from Insty, but still) and 148 comments.

Not bad at all for some guy posting his scatterbrained thoughts to the world, eh?

So here’s a chance for those of you still reading this to feedback to me: are there any things you’d like to see change around here? Anything you’d like to see me post more about (or less)?