By floor9 on Jul 18, 2008 | In Downtown | 4 Comments
Starbucks announced last week that they will be closing 600 stores nationwide. This will reduce the national average number of Starbucks per street corner to approximately 3.7. Although it was said that no Central PA locations will be closing, WHP is reporting that two area ‘Bucks will be going under. One of them is the store on Paxton Street (which I didn’t know existed), and the other is the Third & Market location in SoMa (which is about half a block from the Strawberry Square location).
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By floor9 on Jul 14, 2008 | In Featured, blogHarrisburg | 2 Comments
This Thursday, July 17, is our monthly blogHarrisburg meetup / Harrisburg Twitter meetup. As always, we’ll be at The Abbey Bar (upstairs at ABC Brewery) in Harrisburg. Weather permitting we’ll even be outside on the deck! EDIT: We will be outside on the deck. The meetup is open to everyone in Central PA who has a blog or a Twitter account, regardless of what you blog or tweet about. Things get started around 7, and wrap up around 9. Feel free to hang for the full two hours, show up for 15 minutes, or anywhere in-between!
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By floor9 on Jul 11, 2008 | In Central PA | 4 Comments
You can’t really live in this area without noticing that a large number of people who live here complain about living here. You’ve heard it all before: Central PA sucks, there’s no culture here, people are inbred, our educational institutions suck, the job market sucks, the housing sucks, the transportation options suck … you name it. I always amuse myself by responding with “So then why DO you live here?”, the answer to which is always some fail-tastic statement like “Uh, well, I guess, uh, um … My husband works for Comcast. So yeah.”
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By floor9 on Jul 10, 2008 | In Hollywood Casino | 1 Comment »
I’ll keep this short.
We already give you money. You don’t even really have to do anything; we pretty much just walk in and hand over cash. We don’t even get free drinks out of the deal.
So please — please — stop subjecting us to that abortion of a TV commercial.
By floor9 on Jul 8, 2008 | In Technology | 1 Comment »
About two months ago, I started on my quest for a free XBox 360. If you recall, I’ve navigated these promotions before, resulting in my “free” Macbook Pro. They do work; just be sure you’ve crossed all your Ts and dotted all your Is.
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By floor9 on Jul 3, 2008 | In Hollywood Casino | No Comments »
Penn National just issued a press release stating that Hollywood Casino will not be sold off to PNG Acquisition Company. A very cursory Google search reveals no useful information about “PNG Acquisition Company”. So I wonder: PNG = Penn National Gaming? Was Penn National trying to buy a Penn National property from Penn National? Was Penn National trying to sell to Penn National?
That’s odd.
By floor9 on Jul 3, 2008 | In Central PA | 2 Comments
Fuel economy boosters are worthless. I wouldn’t think this would really be news-worthy, but apparently they keep selling like hotcakes. I imagine a lot of peoples’ reasoning goes something like this: “Hey, this MPG-O-Matik costs $30. That’s the cost for one tank of gas! What the heck, even if it only gives me an extra 1 mpg, that’s worth it, right?” Naturally, they don’t. If you don’t believe the news, and you don’t believe the Attorney General, and you’re positive that email forwarded to you where your coworker’s friend’s neighbor’s sister’s roommate’s cousin TOTALLY SWEARS that they really do work, well then, more power to you. Here’s what I do to crank my 2008 Fit — which has an EPA rating of 34mpg on the highway — up to 40mpg on a regular basis:
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