Bag of Randomness

  • I don’t like the taste of chocolate and peanut butter.
  • Man, it sure has been muggy as of late, it’s like I woke up in Houston or something.
  • I’m not looking forward to getting our electric bill.  It might just be time to do average billing.
  • I wonder if downtown Dallas will ever active and full of life like downtown Fort Worth.
  • BabyGeeding’s umbilical cord fell off yesterday, and her Social Security card came in the mail.
  • That CareFlite memorial service had a lot more pop and circumstance than I would have thought.
  • What’s up with all the alligators sightings as of late?
  • Richard Marx was in town last night, remember him?  That Right Here Waiting was one heck of a song.  I think I heard somewhere that he helped write a lot of the Back Street Boys songs.
  • I’m annoyed when people say “twittering” instead of “tweeting.”
  • BP has had an HD camera capturing the oil spill and we are just now learning about it?
  • It’s time to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of BP, as Stephen Colbert would say, you break it, you buy it.
  • Gov Tim Pawlenty was on The Daily Show and I was actually impressed with the Republican.
  • The Mormons will take over – Utah Has Nation’s Youngest Population, Maine The Oldest
  • Wanted: 400,000 truck drivers
  • Popular Mechanics: There Is No Way AT&T Will Be Able to Handle the iPhone 4
  • It’s a darn shame what’s going on at Arlington National Cemetery, of all places.
  • Niger Vs. Germany Soccer Broadcast Failure
  • With the new Karate Kid movie coming out, Ralph Machio has made a hilarious Funny or Die video, but don’t watch it if you are offended by course language and humor.
  • How celebrities are making money by tweeting
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GM dumps Chevy for Chevrolet

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Motors has banned the use of the Chevy name in all of its corporate communications. From now on, the bow-tie brand will go by its proper name, Chevrolet.

It’s OK if you still call your car a Chevy. It’s just that GM won’t.

The problem, said Alan Batey, vice president of sales for Chevrolet in the U.S., is that in today’s Internet-connected world, documents and Web sites created for an American audience can be read by anyone, anywhere. And the use of two different names for one car brand — Chevy and Chevrolet — can cause confusion abroad.

While Chevy is a popular nickname for the brand in the U.S. and Canada, it’s not used in any of the other 130 or so countries where the brand is sold.

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