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The, Hotfeet, and Muddy Baseballs
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| Real Estate
If I had $37M, I guess I could deal with living in NYC if it were a place like this (although the kitchen is a little outdated). Or I could get a place in Saskatchewan for less than $5K. Now that’s a steal! |
| Fine Print Had a good piece appear in the inbox this week regarding the fine print on your cyber liability policy. When Merck was hit by ransomware a few years back and racked up $1.4 billion (!!) in associated costs, their insurance carrier initially claimed that coverage didn’t apply due to an act of war. Considering the ongoing war in Ukraine, you might pay attention to this one. |
| Receipts
I’d never really thought about the reasoning behind retail and food service establishments incentivizing patrons to report not receiving a receipt. According to this article, it’s to prevent employees from processing and then cancelling transactions, providing the goods to the customer, and pocketing the money. Who knew? |
One Million Fans
I’ve been to plenty of games in Ohio Stadium with more than 100,000 fans, and I also attended the 2003 Ohio State/Michigan game in Ann Arbor. At the time, the crowd of 112,118 was the largest ever for a college football game (and it’s one of only four times this century that Michigan figured a way to win The Game). I can’t imagine sitting in the top row of a stadium built to hold a million people though. Definitely need the binoculars for that game!
Ketchup Popsicles
From the land of ketchup potato chips comes new (for a limited time only) ketchup popsicles. The marketing materials compare the popsicles to a Caesar, which is Canada’s version of a Bloody Mary (but made with Clamato juice. Yuck).
Facebook Messenger Scam
I don’t spend a great deal of time on Facebook any longer, but it seems that at least once a month, I get a message from a “friend”. Usually, these are people with whom I have no regular contact, so my first reaction is to check out their page. When I confirm that they have very little activity on their page, it’s safe to assume that the message is a scam (hackers generally use the facebook profiles of irregular users). According to this research, 10 million Facebook users have provided their login credentials and made the hacker a nice sum.
The
Many of you have probably seen the news that The Ohio State University has finally been granted a trademark on the word ‘The’ as it relates to its usage on hats and shirts. You probably don’t know why this all started, however. I have first hand (and, as usual, totally useless) information though.
My father-in-law was a corporate attorney for many years, having gone to Ohio University for undergrad and then Ohio State law school. He was active with both universities, sitting for a time on the alumni board at OU. That was around the time that OU decided to try and file a trademark on the word ‘Ohio’. Even though my father-in-law tried to convince them otherwise, they moved forward on their efforts (ultimately failing). Ohio State got wind of this and decided to start emphasizing that they were THE Ohio State University. That emphasis became popular and now here we are, all those years later.
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