That’s the startling offer that the Neptune Society (Austin, Texas) made to my mother-in-law, via junk mail. They do a monthly draw and some lucky senior that completes the junk mail reply slip gets to be BBQed at no cost. (Don’t do it, you’ll only get burned).
Why cremation anyway?
Let me quote the letter: “Cremation just makes sense. If you are not interested in spending your family’s inheritance on embalming, caskets, vaults, markers, fancy funeral homes or cemetery property, then we have the answer.”
And the elevator pitch: “You protect your family from falling victim to pressure to overspend at a time when they are emotionally vulnerable.”
Of course my mother-in-law never responded to this outrageous offer. But there it is sitting on my desk with its reply-paid envelope and I’m thinking, “Hell, how much effort would it take for me to fill it in?”
Chip Costs
I got a swift email from a friend in the industry about the last posting on chip costs, saying that it probably costs $500m to get a chip into production. Quite true for a mass produced chip, and it’s another downside to the chip business, but if you have a serious customer you won’t have problems getting the cash flow for that.
The Disappearing Blog
If you tried to access the blog yesterday and just got a blank page, that was my fault. I’m not sure how I achieved it, but I did a few things to the blog yesterday, before heading off to Lisbon airport and suddenly the blog didn’t work. I presumed, wrongly, that it had something to do with my Mac as I’d been having strange connection problems with my email ever since I arrived in Portugal. When I got to Chicago, the email problems vanished, but the blog site was still blank. I messed with WordPress for a while and it came back.
Apparently the theme I was using had been “knocked out” so nothing got displayed. I’m a bit concerned because I’ve no idea what I did to make that happen and, as we all know, problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves.
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My god, look at the Google ads. Cremation anyone?
We’re done here.
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