Comments on: Wall Street Journal article http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20070928/wsj-art/ Information, opinions, ideas and rants from my family and friends in Sacramento, California, US. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Humor and the WSJ article at SonicChicken blog http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20070928/wsj-art/#comment-19726 Humor and the WSJ article at SonicChicken blog Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:57:21 +0000 http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/2007/09/28/wsj-art/#comment-19726 <p>[...] the highly slanted article in the Wall Street Journal, Three Martini Renovation? A lot of people were pretty upset with the author for hoodwinking them into contributing to her [...]</p> [...] the highly slanted article in the Wall Street Journal, Three Martini Renovation? A lot of people were pretty upset with the author for hoodwinking them into contributing to her [...]

]]> By: Humphrey House http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20070928/wsj-art/#comment-12397 Humphrey House Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:24:05 +0000 http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/2007/09/28/wsj-art/#comment-12397 <p>Yes, I could tell she was looking for a certain angle on the story too. When we have renovation parties or "demolition derbies" at our house, alcohol is usually reserved for AFTER the work is completed. More in terms of a celebratory, "Holy cow, that was a lot of work. Did we really do all that?" as opposed to "Let's get wasted and then whip out the sawzall!" </p> <p>But, it was nice to be mentioned in the WSJ. We plan on wrapping Christmas presents with extra copies of the paper we bought. I only wish they included a link to our blogs so people that were interested could get the real story.</p> Yes, I could tell she was looking for a certain angle on the story too. When we have renovation parties or “demolition derbies” at our house, alcohol is usually reserved for AFTER the work is completed. More in terms of a celebratory, “Holy cow, that was a lot of work. Did we really do all that?” as opposed to “Let’s get wasted and then whip out the sawzall!”

But, it was nice to be mentioned in the WSJ. We plan on wrapping Christmas presents with extra copies of the paper we bought. I only wish they included a link to our blogs so people that were interested could get the real story.

]]> By: Warboss http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20070928/wsj-art/#comment-12249 Warboss Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:43:36 +0000 http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/2007/09/28/wsj-art/#comment-12249 <p>Having talked with Jennifer for this article I could tell while she was fishing/angling for horror stories. I guess talking with me was just too boring, not enough danger/ineptitude/ stupidity on my part (or anyone else’s that helped out) to provide adequate spice to her story. I would like to point out that safety was always a concern and it was nice to have so many people looking out for your health and welfare in a potentially hazardous environment. </p> <p>I think the article would have benefited from presenting the up side of friends helping with remodels instead of just the predictable string of “tragedies” that occurred from drunken friends with power and mass based demolition tools (sledges). </p> <p>Over all I’ll just say, if you’re boozing a playing with power tools there’s going to be problems. To quote Jim, “DUH!”.</p> Having talked with Jennifer for this article I could tell while she was fishing/angling for horror stories. I guess talking with me was just too boring, not enough danger/ineptitude/ stupidity on my part (or anyone else’s that helped out) to provide adequate spice to her story. I would like to point out that safety was always a concern and it was nice to have so many people looking out for your health and welfare in a potentially hazardous environment.

I think the article would have benefited from presenting the up side of friends helping with remodels instead of just the predictable string of “tragedies” that occurred from drunken friends with power and mass based demolition tools (sledges).

Over all I’ll just say, if you’re boozing a playing with power tools there’s going to be problems. To quote Jim, “DUH!”.

]]> By: jm http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20070928/wsj-art/#comment-11905 jm Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:33:40 +0000 http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/2007/09/28/wsj-art/#comment-11905 <p>We'd love to have a Sonic Chicken remodel feed :) Try asking the question about tailoring a feed in the Houseblogs.net community forum. We have quite a few Wordpress users in the community already...</p> We’d love to have a Sonic Chicken remodel feed :) Try asking the question about tailoring a feed in the Houseblogs.net community forum. We have quite a few WordPress users in the community already…

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