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Sad:No local BBQ places in new KC Power and Light District

February 16, 2008 in business, commentary with 0 Comments

[jack stack ribs]Ran across this article this morning about the new KCP&L District in development near the Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City.

Famous Dave’s BBQ is a relative newcomer and compared to the rich BBQ heritage of Kansas City, well, there’s no real comparison.

Visitors to the Sprint Center will be missing out if they don’t travel outside of the Power & Light District. There’s lots of good BBQ in the surrounding area, most of which I have tried myself. There are nearly 400 BBQ restaurants in a 40 mile radius of KC.

My only gripe with Famous Dave’s (in my one visit): small portions.

Purging drug trinkets in MN

January 19, 2008 in business with 0 Comments

[viagra ford]

Caught this article on my Yahoo start page this morning. What a great idea!

Twenty shopping carts full. Nice.

SMDC Health System, intends to ship the 18,718 items to the west African nation of Cameroon

The response by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America:

It’s a bit draconian. But the onus is on us now to do a better job of explaining the job and the importance of marketing representatives. Unfortunately there are a lot of cynics in America who want to think the worst.

Draconian? Pffft.

Same needs to be done in Washington. Money better spent elsewhere.

Now if they could do something about the commercials.

Oh, and why is Robert Jarvik the Lipitor guy again?

You knew you needed less Dial soap

November 11, 2007 in business, peeves with 0 Comments

[you’re screwed]

Looks like Dial wants you to buy less soap, literally.

I noticed the same thing with Kingsford charcoal a while back. They were decent enough to post somewhat believable scientific reasoning on their website.

Same thing with Tires Plus (no links for crappy companies), recently. We bought two new tires after a scary blow out up in MN. Their literature says “Free lifetime tire balancing.” Is it free? No, apparently we didn’t purchase the “Premium wheel balance.” How is that free again? Too bad the marketing isn’t true. Tires Plus won’t have to worry about me being a lifetime customer.

Yes, I really did want to explain to my 11 year-old daughter that sometimes companies use vague and deceptive marketing to up-sell you on something.

/rant

I knew I was going to like the new Sprint Center

September 21, 2007 in business with 1 Comment

[quiktrip + sprint = mmm]

This is an exciting development.

OK, AEG and QuikTrip. If I go to the Sprint Center, I’m still expecting $0.89 coffee.

Phone company de-regulation

August 29, 2007 in business, technology with 0 Comments

The hugeness of AT&T is starting to bug me.  I liked Southwestern Bell — they was much better before AT&T borged them — at least from a customer service POV.

I ran across this picture a while back and with AT&T’s acquisition of Cingular and the extreme re-branding, it makes me think that the customers are really starting to get the shaft.

Then, I read this article today and I’m even more convinced.

I’ve griped about this before, but rural America is really at a disadvantage in terms of broadband Internet services.   Hopefully the phone companies neglect of country-dwellers will open a large market for the power companies offering broadband over power lines.

Replacing Google?

August 27, 2007 in business, technology with 0 Comments

[gorilla]In this video Michael Scoble discusses the social-based model that Facebook, Techmeme and Mahalo are using for ranking good content. Scoble calls them SEO-resistant.

Aside from privacy concerns, this is one of the gripes about Google these days — that SEO companies are abusing the system with shady methods for increasing traffic for paying customers.

Take a look if you’re interested.

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