Quickies

As I was heading home from the grocery store over the weekend, I happened upon some tech talk show on the radio. The subject of that segment on the show was, coincidentally, the development of GPS-like systems for grocery store customers. It seems some folks accross the pond are developing such a system to assist the elderly. You can read about it here.

Shedd's Spot's Richmond correspondent, "J.D.", sent in this little nugget.













On this day (May 4th) in 1979, Margaret Thatcher became the U.K.'s first female Prime Minister. That fact reminded me of the scene from Coupling where Sally finds out Maggie Thatcher had some supporters who were gay. You can see the scene here. That scene leads to this scence where Jeff tells the world how easy gay men have it when it comes to romance.