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Ding dong the tolls are dead!
Yes, it’s true! All the Buffalo-area news sources are reporting that the I-190 tolls are no longer – and for good! The booths themselves are supposed to come down next year. As someone who takes the 190 daily (although I only pay in one direction) this will personally save me quite a bit of money….
Market madness
I haven’t done much financial blogging lately, but today I have a good reason to. The stock market rallied a bit today, and everything in my portfolio was up… except for Valero (VLO) and Nighthawk Radiology (NHWK). Valero I can understand. Oil prices fell a bit, and so the oil refiners will follow. But Nighthawk…
Pass on the redshirt treament
I’m sure Independent Health wasn’t thinking of this when they came up with their new ad campaign – “You deserve the Redshirt Treament.” They might have rethought it. This probably isn’t the image they wanted to portray:
Think it can’t happen to your town?
It ain’t easy bein’ green, especially in Marburg, Germany where a new building ordinance now requires any homeowner that does roof or heating system repairs to install solar panels. From his deck, Mr. Schönherr can see the town’s famous hilltop Gothic castle as well as two of its three power-generating windmills. On his roof, a…
Pause
After seven parties in six days, we finally get a break… until New Year’s Eve, when everyone will be coming here. Christmas is by far the busiest season for us. Amanda sang four masses between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, in between the various parties. I used my last two vacation days on the 21st…
Squish the fish, then steal the TV
At a time when Ralph Wilson is bemoaning the future state of the Bills, our arch rivals show off all their large market glory with this… the world’s largest High Definition display: From Engadget, “the 720p display is a whopping 137 feet wide by 50 feet high, making its diagonal dimensions 1,750 inches.” Now if…