[What happend to all of our writers? If you all don't start carrying your weight around here we'll just have to rename the site "Darrel's list of complaints".] I try to be a good American. Supporting the economy by buying lots of crap. Some I need, some I don’t. But it’s getting hard. REALLY hard. [...]
As a follow up to my previous rant about the Fischer Price FP3 player, here’s an overall summary review of the product. I’m posting this here in hopes Google can pick it up and warn any unsuspecting geek parents. First, to be fair, the pros: It’s a nice piece of industrial design. It’s rugged, which [...]
I received an email from a marketing company encouraging me to take a survey – maybe even get $5 in Amazon bucks. One question into it, and I knew it wasn’t good. Download QuickTime version
We all have good memories of Fischer Price. My parents managed to stow away our Fischer Price Little People toys (the good ones made out of wood before people started freaking out about kids choking on them) and now our children love to play with them while at Grandma’s house. My older son, now 5, [...]
This mini-rant has been a long time coming, and likely will stick around for many years in the future. What’s with companies not being able to comprehend that their brand name identifies themselves as a complete ‘whole’? I need to pick up a TV. Just a cheapie for the basement. Part of our New Year’s [...]
Actual job description I saw today…no, it’s not 6 years old…only the name and location have been changed: Enormicom is an innovative, pre-launch Web 2.0 startup developing something completely different… and we’re looking for a Senior Web Developer in the mood for something different. We are funded, so you’ll get paid competitively, and with equity [...]
  I promise not to make posts that were this far off topic often, but this was really interesting to me and I think others might be interested as well. My Cousin and her many of her friends over at eightandfive.com got together last weekend and did a Blind Taste Test of Cheap Beers available [...]
This will be my first post on MNteractive, but I’m a frequent reader. I recently tried to cancel my MySpace account, but I’m still not quite sure if I actually did. The experience was not only very challenging, but very confusing and highly irritating. How many “cancels” does it take to cancel a MySpace account? [...]
Now, I’m the last person to ask about getting a stock tip. But I’m fairly confident in recommending that you dump any Electrolux/Frigidaire stock. I haven’t run any P&E analysis. I haven’t made any bar graphs. But I did notice one thing: They pretty much refuse to allow me to give them money. Seems to [...]
The Emperor has no Clothes as they say. AIGA Minnesota has a new site up. It is refreshing to see them move to a site more open for public feedback, and open in it’s content. Feeling more weighty than before, and less “fluffy”. It’s caused a bit of stir in the anouncement, and as usual [...]