Month: February 2006

But if you want to make it more complicated, here you go.

While, for the most part, every business wants their products to be sold at the 3,000+ Wal-Mart stores around the country, but I can very easily see why you wouldn’t want to if you sold high-end quality equipment, and this is the story of one CEO who basically told Wal-Mart to pull his product line of Snapper lawn mowers (why you’d go to Wal-Mart to buy a lawn mower, I have no idea). Good commentary from both sides, calling him an idiot and some praising him (personally, while I don’t mind Wal-Mart at all, and he’s probably not going to win too many fans among his shareholders, I think he’s got guts, that’s for sure).

Thanks Josh for the link.

This is an eerily fascinating story about Portland’s sexual addiction:

We contacted a cross-section of people in Portland’s version of “the industry”: everyone from a “regular” guy who owns his own sex machine (and claims to have “serviced” at least 75 women with it) and a male stripper wannabe who doesn’t have quite the right stuff to make it on the stage of one of Stark Street’s busiest queer bars to a trio of Portland’s most down-to-earth “ladies of the night.” And, oh yeah, one “john.”

Be sure to read the comments on the story as well. Thanks Barney for the link.

Otherwise, this temporary mini-park (complete with tree and bench) that was created in a two-hour parking spot wouldn’t have been so popular.