Buried deep within the BDN’s triumphal celebration of compliance with Bangor’s upcoming Styrofoam ban was this tidbit: Governor’s, which has […]
Archive for November 2019
The $1.29 million Pickering Square gentrification grant
BDN: Bangor has been awarded $1.29 million in federal funds to help it replace the public bus terminal that was […]
Unpleasant design: a tale of two laundromats
The laundromat closest to my house was, at one time, a gas station. It stayed vacant for a while before […]
I can tell it’s November by the way, over the past few weeks, that Christmas music has started to crop […]
That “sensational” story about bussing homeless people out of Bangor
November 13’s local paper, front page, above the fold: Bangor is buying bus tickets to warmer states for people with […]
“Please and thank you” is an insult
Those of us with more than an hour’s exposure to the English language have probably heard the terms “please” and […]
Juul stops selling another flavor to placate “society”
AP, via the weekend’s paper: Juul Labs said Thursday it will halt U.S. sales of its best-selling, mint-flavored electronic cigarettes […]
Blizzard suit issues unconvincing pseudo-apology
I’m several days late on my YouTube viewing, so I’ve only now seen clips of Blizzard Entertainment president J. Allen […]
There’s a subset of customer interactions in which I make a small mistake, worry that the customer might think less […]
The most useless appliance in the store (so far)
I went in to work one day and found this thing taking up space on the side counter: That’s the […]
Ray of Infamy 