Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Buying the New Yorker - Page 82

The name in the ad is "THOS. MOSER." The web address in the ad is "www.thosmoser.com." When you go there, the web address resolves into "www.thomasmoser.com," but the web page says that the company is called "Thos. Moser." You know, this is the sort of silly rubbish that I could spend my life obsessing over from the comfort of my new rocking chair.

New Gloucester Rocker - $1,615.00

Alpine Travel Inc. has been run by a gentleman named Fred Jacobson since 1973. Mr. Jacobson seems like the sort of guy who is going to just go on these trips no matter what, and if you want to pay him to come along, well, that's just gravy. I love knowing that folks like him are walking the Earth.

Hiking trip to Soglio - $3,000.00

Get ready for the upcoming Olympics by snapping up some US Olympic Team Jewelry. I've been paying so little attention to the Olympics that I can't even say something snarky. Sorry.

Three Medal Necklace - $35.00

Yesterday, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers stepped down. Want to find out more and/or vent your spleen about it? Get thee to Inside Higher Ed. You can apply for a teaching position as well.

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Stone Soup is one of those magazines where all of the content is written by the children who subscribe to it. Sort of a pyramid scheme.

One year subscription - $34.00

Running total (hey look, no Monk ad) - $73,706.48

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