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1. Go to your local thrift store.
2. Find interesting products.
3. Take pictures of them inside the store.
4. Ask the cashier to hold onto your items while you go have a coffee.
5. Sell everything on Ebay from a coffeeshop with a hotspot.
6. Return to the thrift store, and buy only the items which sold online.
7. Profit!
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I was writing an email today, as we all do sometimes, and I thought of a few things that could help eliminate common mistakes in e-mails. Most email programs have an automatic spellchecker that can cut down on typos – but why not use the same principles to eliminate other common syntax mistakes. For example;
1. [...]

Among the many tasks I perform daily, I am also growing a mustache. Naturally I have been eating a plateful of brussel sprouts and drinking five cups of coffee every day to aid the growing process. Because this blog will not beable to satiate the demand for mustache updates I have created an e-mail distribution [...]

There was a lady on the bus this morning. She was reading a book. She had a canvas book protector type device around her book.
Based on these observations we can come to one of two conclusions.
1. She borrowed the book from a friend and was worried about getting mustard stains on the cover, so she [...]

Okay, I made up that headline, but wouldn’t that be a great rumour?
I had a practice gig at the theatre – a band came in to play some songs for a couple hours without an audience. It was a good opportunity for us to learn how to set up audio and to play with the [...]

I’m thinking of getting either a cell phone or contact lenses.
Please advise.

I’m in the lounge at Pearson Airport after a hard day of conferencing. I learned a lot about conferencing today.
I had a very business like experience today. I started my day by taking a cab to the airport, and then reading the Globe and Mail on the plane. Then I shmoozed at a conference all [...]