TOP 20 IRRITATING TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS
1. Car alarms
2. Egg timer appearing on computer screen
3. Computer crashing
4. Speed cameras
5. Automated phone systems
6. Novelty doorbells
7. Skipping CD
8. The ‘bong’ sound in Windows when you can’t do something
9. Uncomfortable headphones
10. Printers
View the rest of the list here.
WARWICK — Remember the milkman? You’d wake up in the morning to find fresh bottled milk on your doorstep just in time for breakfast?
Yeah, neither do many people. But this gracious bit of nostalgia from a gentler age is poised to make a comeback.
That’s because Warwick resident Rob Schuller has started Schuller’s Dairy Deliveries, a delivery service for local dairy products. He delivers milk and other local products fresh from area farms to your door.
“More and more, people are taking an interest in where their food’s coming from. Plus, I want to support the local farms,” Schuller said. “It’s healthy food, and it’s a convenience.”
The new college textbooks got my attention. I’m teaching a class next week and while I was reviewing the text book I have the option to provide my students with an e-book, and electronic version they can “rent” for a while that is about a third of the cost of the print version.
Depending on how the cookie crumbles, a Plano company may not be all smiles.
Eat’n Park, a Pennsylvania bakery and restaurant chain, says it has caught Plano-based Cookies by Design selling smiley-face cookies that it says are “confusingly similar” to its own.
And it’s suing.
Eat’n Park says it has a trademark from 1987 for the “sugar cookie having raised design of a smiling face.” In its lawsuit filed in a federal court in Pennsylvania on Dec. 31, the company asks that Cookies by Design stop selling its version of smiley cookies and pay an undisclosed amount of dough in damages.
A key ingredient of Eat’n Park’s case is the lawsuit’s Exhibit A, which shows a circle with two round eyes, a dot for a nose and a perky smile.
Here’s the Eat ‘n Park Smiley cookie
and here’s the Cookies by Design cookie:
At the beginning of the school year I usually send WifeGeeding and her team a cookie bouquet from a local store. I just looked up smiley faces on their website to see how close they could be to being sued.
