Monday, June 30, 2008

some things you can only do with a pet...

Those crazy Canadians...love it! :)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Money troubles

Puppy!!!


I want one of these SOOOO bad. Nemo would be mad for a while, but how can you not love a critter like this?

Soup of the day

Friday, June 13, 2008

Ouch!

But the real question is, "Why???"

Men can get tickets for going topless now?

Man gets ticket for going topless in public

EASTON, Md. -- For only the third time in five years, Easton police have ticketed someone for going topless in public. Sean Cephus, 18, was cited June 4 when police say he was spotted without a shirt on South Street near Hanson Street. He was also cited for failing to obey a lawful order to stop for police.

A town ordinance adopted in 1974 forbids anyone from going topless in public buildings or on public streets and sidewalks. Possible penalties are a fine of up to $100 and up to 10 days in jail.

Easton Police Lt. Gregory Wright said people without shirts are considered a public nuisance. He said three citations have been issued since 2003.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Continental's doing things right

In this era of companies who screw over customers, employees, shareholders, anybody they can, it is refreshing to see leadership of a major company step up and take one for the team.

Too many times the CEO will sit back, slash thousands if not tens of thousands of jobs, while continuing to be rewarded by the Board of Directors with an already excessive salary package. Not this time...

Continental Airlines Inc. said Thursday it is cutting 3,000 jobs and reducing capacity in the fourth quarter by 11 percent, citing record fuel costs that have pushed the airline industry into a "crisis."

The company also said Chairman and Chief Executive Lawrence Kellner and President Jeff Smisek will not take salaries or incentive pay for the rest of the year.

The job cuts represent about 6.5 percent of the company's work force of 45,000.

Houston-based Continental said it will begin pulling back on flights in September, when departures on its mainline operations will be about 16 percent below the numbers of September 2007. For the year, capacity will fall 11 percent.

CEO Kellner will give up part of a hefty compensation package. In 2007, his salary was $712,500, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Kellner got a $3.3 million incentive payment, stock and options grants that the company valued at nearly $1.94 million when they were issued in February 2007, and $45,196 in other compensation.


It's things like this that make me like Continental Airlines, and if they actually served more cities out of Seattle, I would definitely fly them. They just don't fly where I want/need to go.