Flutterby!Last updated 2008-06-17 22:41:25.443677+00Banking follies- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Dan Lyke: A few months ago, I set up a business account with Wells Fargo. We'd grown dissatisfied with our previous bank, our mortgage is there, and we were thinking about moving all of our banking over there, just to make one login for everything. There was a little confusion when I signed up, because Bank of Petaluma had just been acquired by Wells Fargo, and the staff didn't yet have everything ironed out. But I got the account set up, deposited two checks, really liked ...truncatedhttp://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11220.html bike and a boat- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Dan Lyke: A bicycle built for two (and a boat), a tandem with a side car carrying a sailing canoe.http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11207.html Political idiocies- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Dan Lyke: If you see a suspicious package on the subway in London it's probably highly confidential terrorism policy documents:http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11208.html Web Sabbath- (Found June 18, 2008 ) ziffle: Or What hath Google wroughthttp://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11209.html AP is to Blogs as RIAA is to Napster- (Found June 18, 2008 ) ebradway: All over the web this weekend, the Associated Press has decided it needs to come up with it's own version of "fair use". Evidently, the AP is upset that blogs are using too much material from AP stories and not directly linking. This is kind of silly because blogs that don't directly link are likely not being read as widely as blogs that regularly link. And publishers shouldn't arbitrarily limit quotations because they cannot (and should not) predict the context...truncatedhttp://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11210.html As % of GDP, Federal revenue stays constant- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Dan Lyke: Dave attributes this one to Flutterby, but I don't see it here, so...http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11211.html Skate Park silliness- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Dan Lyke: Petaluma has a skate park. I have skates. On Saturday, I took my inline skates down to the park and played for a bit, gaining some humility. On Sunday's hike I carried 5 gallons of water, just to make it fair, so I was a little sore on Sunday afternoon, but I went down to the park anyway to try something my legs were just itching to do, and managed to land a couple of "up the bank forward, turn, hop forward to backward and come back down backward" moves.http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11212.html Flaming Cyclist- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Dan Lyke: Burning Man art: Flaming cyclist (Direct LiveLink video).http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11213.html Penis Reduction Pills- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Dan Lyke: Why didn't I think of that Penis Reduction Pillshttp://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11214.html Canned Bacon- (Found June 18, 2008 ) meuon: I'm not really sure WHY Bacon is a recurring theme on Flutterby. But it is. Perhaps this will end this delicious genre, for I submit to Flutterbarians: Canned Baconhttp://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11215.html |