Automated Electronics Unlimited of Bedford Falls, New Hampshire has announced in a site news email that they have elected to switch to green trash bags in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint, and environmental impact. This move was praised by most of the location’s 430 employees as a sign that management really is aware…
Spring Cleaning 2 – Miscellaneous Bits
“This is a series of thoughts which never made it into anything, but are cluttering up my notebook.” Erk ——————– Inventor of the cheese-scented seatbelt. Unlike the edible seatbelt [the S-eatbelt], which, while designed to allow seatbelt escape even while inverted, posed some logistic problems, not the least of which was the inability of most…
Spring Cleaning 1 – The Old Codger
“This was of course inspired by Grandpa Simpson, and was supposed to be a wandering letter to some company. The continnuity needs a little work, and the ending is weak, but I’m not working on it anymore, so here it is.” – Erk Dear Sirs, I am very disappointed in your product. These support hose…
Spring Cleaning!
Hello faithful reader[s]! As you may be aware, Spring is in the air. We here at Stupidopolis are cleaning house, and will be posting a plethora of unfinished (and in some cases unwritten) articles just to get them off our notebooks and allow us to make a fresh start. Over the next few weeks expect…
Stupidopolis Site News
Attention users, readers and spambots! A minor change was made after we perused the massive user list and found that 99% of our users were actually spambots. Darn easy to use and friendly WordPress! Well, as of today all that has changed (the spambots, not the friendly and easy to use part.) We have deleted…
My New Year’s Resolutions
by erk Yeah, I know this is a little late. I will address that in the list below. But before I do, I would like to mention something I have learned in the real world – the business world. They say that when it comes to promising things, it’s meaningless without metrics. It must have…
Fort Hood Massacre
I think it’s important that we begin to educate our children how to properly deal with anger. We apparently are not providing them with adequate coping skills. And to think that a psychiatrist, a person who is supposed to help others deal with their own emotional issues, could be this unstable, well, this just brings…
Screw the Olympics!
by enlitened I don’t know about you, but I for once am really pissed off at those racist olympic comittee panellists who just voted Chicago out of it because of our black president being from there! What kind of mesage are they sending to our children and there children when they chose a city where…
My K’Nex Page
I know my K’Nex collection cannot rival that of some. The truth is I never purchased any for myself or my kids, and I never received any as gifts. But I did receive a desk from some friends which happened to have some K’Nex pieces floating around inside of it. I wasn’t really into them…
Holocaust Remembrance Days
by Loren Jersey SKOKIE, IL. — From April 19 through April 26, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. will lead the nation in remembering the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. Observances will be held in communities, state houses, city halls, churches, and synagogues across the United States and…