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Seismic Events
Dec. 17th, 2008 10:41 pmAn Earthquake Happened Near Here. It sounded like a very loud truck going past. I didn't feel it so much, but I was seated in a castered chair and if the earth moved I could have blamed the chair.
The Place Where I Sit
Mar. 19th, 2007 05:15 pmI removed the back from my castered swivel chair over the weekend. The bracket to which the seat and the backside are attached to the bottom has gotten so chewed up from years of use, that it was only a matter of time before the back collapsed.
Saw a chair of the same type in a K-Mart circular. Only $20.
Haven't decided yet whether I want it yet.
FP
Saw a chair of the same type in a K-Mart circular. Only $20.
Haven't decided yet whether I want it yet.
FP
On Globalization...The Riptide
Feb. 6th, 2007 09:07 pmHey.
On PBS' NewsHour tonight, their main commentator on economics interviewed the Kashmir-born CEO of the Ethan Allen furnature company. It was very interesting stuff.
The point? Life goes where FOOD is.
The reason why Ethan Allen still has factories in America is the reason why they started there in the first place: resources. It would cost them more in shipping raw materials overseas than it would save them on cheap labor in foreign factories. They still have SOME factories overseas, but those operations are harmonized with American ones. Plus Ethan Allen also takes on some jobs in-house that others would bring in outside firms to do: design, research, advertising and so on. While Ethan Allen has been phasing out manual factory labor jobs in some of its plants, it has added jobs in the more intellectual aspects of its business.
Meanwhile...
The Dandridge Ford dealership has gone out of business. I wasn't all that surprised to see their lot emptied out when I went past there tonight...they had been struggling for years in a lousy location just east of where Highway 92 and Highway 25/70 merge. I wonder how many other dealerships closed...whether it's a direct result of the overall troubles of the Ford company. Between my Mercury Topaz (now extinct) and my dad's Ford Ranger (now in the hands of my brother) we used to visit that Dandridge place every so often. Maybe another dealership will move in. Maybe the place will become something with an entirely different tenant and purpose.
Life goes where food is. No food, no life.
FP
PS: The former Dandridge Ford dealership is now a veternary clinic.
On PBS' NewsHour tonight, their main commentator on economics interviewed the Kashmir-born CEO of the Ethan Allen furnature company. It was very interesting stuff.
The point? Life goes where FOOD is.
The reason why Ethan Allen still has factories in America is the reason why they started there in the first place: resources. It would cost them more in shipping raw materials overseas than it would save them on cheap labor in foreign factories. They still have SOME factories overseas, but those operations are harmonized with American ones. Plus Ethan Allen also takes on some jobs in-house that others would bring in outside firms to do: design, research, advertising and so on. While Ethan Allen has been phasing out manual factory labor jobs in some of its plants, it has added jobs in the more intellectual aspects of its business.
Meanwhile...
The Dandridge Ford dealership has gone out of business. I wasn't all that surprised to see their lot emptied out when I went past there tonight...they had been struggling for years in a lousy location just east of where Highway 92 and Highway 25/70 merge. I wonder how many other dealerships closed...whether it's a direct result of the overall troubles of the Ford company. Between my Mercury Topaz (now extinct) and my dad's Ford Ranger (now in the hands of my brother) we used to visit that Dandridge place every so often. Maybe another dealership will move in. Maybe the place will become something with an entirely different tenant and purpose.
Life goes where food is. No food, no life.
FP
PS: The former Dandridge Ford dealership is now a veternary clinic.
