outbound

Outbound is written by DB Blas, who blogs mostly on art, good food & drink, education & reform, politics, and sports.

12.31.2004

"Employers know that in any given year, about 80 percent of the health care costs are from people with serious health problems," said Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health. "Many of those problems can be stopped by losing weight, exercising or stopping smoking."

In line with the corporate takeover of the holiday season, a man was killed yesterday when a freeway speeder came from behind the the car he was driving, forcing him to swerve to avoid contact with the car in front, lose control eventually falling off the side of the freeway to his death.

The speeder fled the scene.

Crappy holidays.

Read the entire article here.

12.26.2004

don't see it. it's rubbish.

12.25.2004

the crappy job market has got me in the temporary food service business, and it ain't fun.

bussing tables at a casino buffet is perhaps the most culturally depressive work one can toil in on christmas day.

a 40 year old man with an expensive college degree shouldn't be doing this kind of work. (what ever happened to get me this?)

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12.23.2004

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please remove books of religion or spirituality from your gift buying
list. especially the "purpose driven life," a series from rick warren.
yuck.

12.20.2004

12.19.2004

read an article from the nytimes.com about firefox taking on microsoft in a new browser war.

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