In Hudson Valley, the milkman delivers again

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.”

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10 Things Not to Buy in 2010

  • DVDs
  • Home telephone service
  • External hard drives
  • Smartphone also-rans
  • Compact digital cameras
  • Newspaper subscriptions
  • CDs
  • New college textbooks
  • Gas-guzzling cars
  • Energy-inefficient homes and appliances

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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.

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Plano-based Cookies by Design sued over smiley-face sweet

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.

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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.

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Bag of Randomness

  • I thought it was pretty cool that Keith Jackson got to do the coin toss last night.  And I appreciated his words right before the toss, even if they were hard to hear.
  • Not sure who I feel sorry for more, Colt McCoy getting hurt in his last college game, or his true freshman backup being thrown into the national championship game.
  • Congrats, Bama.
  • The Rose Bowl Stadium is something special, isn’t it?
  • As I mentioned earlier, I would take a Longhorn loss for a Cowboy win.
  • Craig James has confirmed he is interested in replacing Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson when she steps away from her senate seat.  Man, that’s quite a surprise, and I wonder just how much the whole Texas Tech fiasco is going to influence votes should he actually run.
  • Man, there sure are some crazy rumors regarding Jay Leno.  It appears that after the Winter Olympics, he might be back in his old time slot, and I have no idea what that will mean for Conan or Fallon.
  • I’d feel more comfortable with the Tea Party movement if they were more vocal when the size of government and its debt grew tremendously during the last administration.
  • You may remember the movie critic Roger Ebert.  He can no longer eat or drink, and has recently written about it.  Quit interesting.
  • The new cast has been announced for Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.  This could be the best season ever.  The only person I want to see that isn’t part of the cast is Terry, the Captain America former fighter pilot from Survivor Panama.
  • I’ll bet the entire house that the Cowboys will keep the roof closed this Saturday night.
  • Mark McGwire will play next year?
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