No Free Lunch — But Free Ice Cream (at least for one day) Given the long (and growing) line at the nearby Ben & Jerry’s around 12:30 p.m. today, I thought it was a good idea to get my free ice cream before blogging about it. Mission accomplished (as of about 10 minutes ago)....Read More
Passengers: “What’s the Catch?” What do you do with free drink coupons that are about to expire that you can’t use? (they were for Southwest, but I was flying Sun Country earlier this month). Give ’em to somebody else. Drink Coupons and Gift Horses, or, “Take My Wife Free Drinks, Please”* I walked over a...Read More
Google + Facebook + Twitter = “The Circle”: The Life of a Corporate “Thought Guinea Pig” (“Mind Slave?”) “What matters, counts, and what is counted, matters.” –old saying “Whatever is counted . . . can be bought and sold.” –21st century update Las Vegas just has designs on its customers’ wallets. Google wants people’s souls,...Read More
Who Says There’s No Free Lunch (and Prizes, Too)? To stimulate turnout at Broker Opens, Realtors will often offer a prize of some sort. So, I’ve seen Twins tickets, gift certificates, restaurant coupons etc. given to whomever lucky Realtor had their business card plucked from the bowl. The (occasional) caveat: some Realtors only give away the prize...Read More
It’s not exactly true that “there’s no free lunch”; if you’re a Realtor, you could almost always count on at least a few homes on the Tuesday Broker tour having some sort of spread. Well, not today, and very little lately, generally — not even at upper bracket properties where putting out a lunch is...Read More
Colbert Interview with Eliot Spitzer I’m not a Stephen Colbert regular, but I did catch his interview the other night with “disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer” (that’s now Spitzer’s official moniker, by the way). Colbert’s cut-to the chase question: even if Wall Street is full of inept crooks and greedheads, as most everyone...Read More
