Philler
A couple of amusing tidbits I’ve run across in the last day or so:
The first - a newsletter for accountants that I get is running one of the loopiest contests I’ve 
encountered. It’s a trivia game where you try to answer 5 or 6 factual questions about the life and career of retiring FED chairman Alan Greenspan. The payoff, besides the obvious gift of enlightenment about an influential, if not exactly charismatic, public figure, is the chance to win an iPod Nano. I’d like me one of them - it’s flash-based, unlike my Creative Zen Extra, so I could run and work out with it - so I’ve been playing, though I haven’t spent much time in the business library cribbing. But it’s humor. By accountants.
Another oddball item is from an email digest I get of the Ohio State student newspaper about a new fast-food genre opening near campus called Cerealicious Cafe. If you don’t have time to grab breakfast on your way out the door, for $3.50 you can score your choice of 30 different cereals, plus a topping, plus milk in a take-out container. The owners are planning on rolling out 100 of these carboterias within 5 years, most seemingly targeting college students. Reminds me a little of the Saturday Night Live “Scotch Boutique” skit with Hugh Hefner, Jane Curtin, et al, where all they sold was tape.
