A Bit of This and That Blog

A report for Los Angeles today mentioned a possible ban on fast food restaurants.
The proposal, which was forwarded to the full council, would prevent fast food chains from opening new restaurants in a 32-square-mile area that includes South Los Angeles, West Adams, Baldwin Hills and Leimert Park. The ban would be in effect for one [...]

I have heard of software that certain social networking sites are built upon, one of them being Ruby on Rails.
So far, two social networking sites, twitter.com and tribe.com have Ruby on Rails as their platform - and both sites continually crash, are down for “maintenance” or simply do not work, or are very slow.
Needless to [...]

Image Courtesy of USA Today
Apparantly, Rachel Ray, the well-known TV chef, was recently seen in a Dunkin’ Donuts ad for their iced coffee. She was wearing, of all things (gasp) a scarf!
To some apparent morons, this scarf appears to them to be a Muslim only garment - like no one else wears scarfs, hmm? Here [...]

It used to be that one could work as long as they wanted to, and as long as they were a good employee. In modern times this is no longer true - especially in California, the state of “at will” employment. In other words, they can let you go for any reason, and don’t have [...]

I know it’s been forever and a day since I have written anything, but since I have been out of work for a couple of days, and the county of San Diego California is burning down around us, I guess I have a bit more time on my hands!
There are many fires burning in San [...]

It used to be that when we were children, you played games, got into fights, wrestled (or wrastled, depending on where you lived), fell down, got banged up, or just plain screaming and yelling and having fun playing games.
Now, all that is ending. Certain members of society are slowly banning normal childhood activities, removing fun [...]