Yankee Tag Blog

My company moved into a new office. It’s rad. The cubicles are smaller, we’re farther from the nearest coffee shop, bar, and corner store, there aren’t any drawers in our new desks, the rent is higher, we don’t get CNN anymore, and parking is more limited. The CEO’s office is much larger, though, so you know… silver lining.

Only one person took me up on my Mexicana Betsicana: Richard St. Ofle. Unfortunately, he lost. And he owes me coffee.

I think this is the first bet I wish I had lost.

Note: Richard made good on his bet. Have you seen his new art show? Beards You Should Know

Late breaking update from Jaime at Mexicana:

Dear NATHAN KAGEY:

Tomorrow I will send you my answer about your claim.
Thank you so much for your comprehension and help.

Best regards,
Jaime Suárez López
Atención a Clientes
Cía. Mexicana de Aviación, S.A. de C.V.

Well, it looks like they could be resolving this in as little as 24 hours from now. Call me a cynic, but I’m doubtful. So doubtful, in fact, that I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is:

I’ll bet any visitor to this site that Mexicana does not offer to compensate me my claim of $800 for my lost baggage by the end of the day tomorrow.

Wanna bet? betme@yankeetag.com

I made a Widget (of the Yahoo! variety) and a Gadget (the Google kind). If you have Google Desktop and/or Yahoo Widgets, or want to download them, you should try them out.

Yahoo Widget

Google Gadget

Comments? googlegadget@yankeetag.com or yahoowidget@yankeetag.com

I plan to vote for Ron Paul when I vote for president in the 2008 elections. Why? Because, like Ron Paul, I believe in personal freedom, personal responsibility, privacy rights, property rights, and a small government with little or no taxes.

Fun trivia fact: As of 10:39 am PST on November 1, 2007, Yankeetag.com is ranked #1 on Google for the phrase “sexy cop lingo“. Proof that the web is truly democratic.

I found a really cool program called Kiva (kiva.org) that arranges microloans for entrepreneurs in developing countries. You can find somebody you want to help finance and you can contribute to their loan amount. When they repay the loan, you get your money back. So, I decided to try it. I had three criteria for the guy I picked, based purely on how he looks:

• He had to look like he knew how to drink a damn beer.
• He had to look like he could tell a good joke.
• He had to look like he could take a punch.

How do you think I did?

Go help him with a loan: Govser Nasirov