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Archive for 2007/08/01


POS equipment from VisionPOS

You’ve been in the neighborhood convenience store and handed them your credit card to pay for a tank of gas, haven’t you? Have you ever paid any attention to that little card reader that the attendant swipes your card through? That is what’s known as POS equipment. POS does not stand for what you’re probably […]

Trivia for 8/1/2007

* Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Given some of the other things that people were doing in the early 1800’s, I’m not surprised. There were people selling all sorts of miracle cures for everything from insomnia to the common cold - and most of those “remedies” were just moonshine with fancy-looking labels.

“Thing” is back!

I know, the picture I’m about to direct you to is a little on the old side, but it just now circulated to this end of the internet, so there.
Anyway, here is a poto of some model from some catalog - Look closely at her shoulder!