Slacker At Work

Best Buy helps support the slackers (and lazy people)

Best Buy has just jumped into the lead for the best consumer electronics store on the planet with a reported curbside pickup program for those online in-store pickup purchases. How does Curbside Pickup work? Choose the Pick Up option when adding an item to your cart. Click Select Store and choose a store with Curbside Pickup service. Wait to receive a pickup notification e-mail from us. Call the store to schedule a Curbside Pickup time. Bring your photo ID, credit card [+]

Lindsay Lohan has the thousand-dollar touch (ask Samantha Ronson)

[caption id="attachment_121" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan"][/caption] First off I want to apologize for ... a) Writing a post about Celebrity Gossip and b) Having the topic of the post being about Lindsay Lohan Now getting that out of the way, the main reason I wanted to write this is for the business-side of the Lindsay Lohan (what team do I play for again) and Samantha Ronson business-deal relationship. According to today's NY Daily News Samantha Ronson's "fee" for being [+]

CNN please bring back your ticker!

O' where o' where did your little ticker go CNN? I actually enjoyed watching the ticker at the bottom of the screen then actually listening to what you were saying on-air. Now I have to deal with your annoying text-flipper-feature that is almost an informative as watching Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Plain. PLEASE, for my Christmas present, bring back the ticker that was displayed on the bottom of your broadcast. [+]

No Steve Jobs at this year’s MacWorld … what will happen to AAPL?

The buzz today going around the tech-world is that Apple's (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is not listed on the MacWorld lineup. The rumor first start late yesterday after the market's closed and as of this post the APPL stock is down almost 6%, most believe because of this news and that is might signal that Jobs is ready to step-down from his post at Apple. Why would Jobs want to step-down? There are so many [+]

Will the Office Depot closings help competitors? Closing List still not released.

I know most of you heard the news last week that Office Depot plans to close 112 of its underperforming stores (about 10% of their total stores) within the next 3 months, but what I'm wondering is if these closings will have a positive effect on competitors Staples and OfficeMax. Personally, and I hate to say this, anytime I need office supplies, 99.9% of the time I head over to Wal-Mart since their prices are [+]

Its the little prizes in life that makes slacking off so much fun

During my morning exercise (aka Walking to WalMart) I stopped to play one of my favorite games ever ... depositing $1.25 into the Mt. Dew machine and if all goes well, a bottle of Mt. Dew will come out. And guess what ... it did! But the best part is that I won a FREE MT DEW (or PEPSI) from the bottlecap! And whats even funnier (or sadder, depending on how you look at it) [+]

To Digg or not to Digg

Basically this post is just a little rant I have regarding Digg.com. First off I want to say that Digg is one of my favorite websites to visit on a daily basis because what those users find can keep me entertained for hours on end. However the issue I've been having is with all the websites that put a DIGG THIS button on each and every page, no matter if its their contact page or a [+]