Gift Guide 2009
Writing on the Mall is presenting it’s first annual gift guide for Marietta College students. Â Here are the things that WotM things you should want to bring back to campus for the spring. Read more…
Posted by Patrick_H Date: Friday, December 18, 2009
Tags: Bike, Blu-Ray, BMX, Burger King, Card, College, Del Mar's Mexican Baja, DVD, External Hard Drive, Firewire, Gift, Gift Card, Guide, Helmet, Lock, Marietta, McDonalds, Movie Tickets, Ohio, Regal Cinema's, Sonic, The Hangover, Tim Hortons, Wal-Mart, Wendys, Western Digital, Writing on the Mall
Bomb Threat Suspect Indicted
The man that is accused of bomb threats against Marietta College, Wal-Mart, Selby General Hospital, and Marietta Memorial Hospital, now faces six charges worth nine years in jail, if convicted. Â The charges include inducing panic and making false alarms. Â For more, check out the article at the Marietta Times.
Posted by Patrick_H Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Categories: Campus, Marietta, Off Campus
Tags: Bomb Threat, Idictment, Marietta, Marietta College, Marietta Times, Ohio, Selby General Hospital, Suspect, Wal-Mart, Writing on the Mall
FBI Joins Investigation to Find Bomb Threat Caller
According to a Marietta Times article, the FBI has joined the search for the man responsible for five bomb threats in two days.
The man placed the calls, which threatened Marietta Memorial Hospital, Selby General Hospital, the Marietta Wal-Mart, the Marietta Comfort Inn, and Marieta College, on what is being called an, “untraceable cell phone.”
The man, with an apparent speech impediment, called the Washington County Sheriff’s Office each time, simply stating that there is a bomb at the site, and then repeating himself and hanging up. The calls can be heard by going to the Marietta Times website
All locations were swept by bomb-sniffing dogs and local police, but nothing was found. The calls have been deemed hoaxes, so there is no immediate threat to the college or any other site.
Posted by Patrick_H Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Categories: Campus
Tags: 2009, Bomb Threats, Comfort Inn, FBI, February, Marietta, Marietta College, Marietta Memorial Hospital, Marietta Times, Ohio, Police, Selby General Hospital, Wal-Mart, Washington County Sheriff, Writing on the Mall
Toothpicks Hard To Find in Scotland
I mentioned the McDonough Worldwide Blogging effort a couple weeks ago, and am a little behind in picking up some of the more interesting blog entries.
The first that I’ll highlight is Katy Black, who is currently in Scotland. She had an interesting adventure trying to find toothpicks at several of the many specialized stores that populate the country. There are chain stores, but nothing like Wal-Mart. She eventually found bamboo sticks that she could use as toothpicks. You can read about her search here.
Posted by Patrick_H Date: Monday, February 9, 2009
Categories: Off Campus, Students
Tags: Katy Black, Marietta, Marietta College, McDonough Center for Leadership, McDonough Worldwide Blogging, Ohio, Scotland, Toothpicks, Wal-Mart, Writing on the Mall
Black Friday Craziness
Evidently, Black Friday turns our great nation into a bunch of heartless idiots. Let me cite this as an example.
A male employee at a Wal-Mart was trampled to death by the mob of shoppers waiting to try to scavenge a deal. Evidently, he was the unfortunate one to open the doors, which were pushed open and over top of him by the crowd. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died.
Now obviously, the importance of this story pales in comparison to the recent attacks on Mumbai. However, what does this say about America? That saving $70 on a Blu-Ray player or $100 off a TV is a reason to not stop and help him up? Absolutely rediculous. Now, I realize that some people may have been pushed along as well and couldn’t even fathom stopping to help, but still…they are material things.  And sadly, this man died because you needed to save that extra bit.
Meh.
Posted by Patrick_H Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008
Categories: Deals, Off Campus
Tags: America, Black Friday, Blu-Ray, Death, Mumbai, Television, TV, Wal-Mart
Black Friday Deals Now Available
To those of you about to embark on your annual journey to the local store on Friday, I salute you. You are much more brave than I.
I will be spending the day recovering from my Turkey Coma (or what I can eat of it considering my braces were just tightened…meh).
I just wanted to alert those going shopping that many deals are actually being offered online before Black Friday. While there will still be many many options that are in-store only deals, many (if not most) of the good deals can be had ahead of time on a merchant’s website.
My personal favorite Black Friday site, Black Friday Ads, has a list up of all the merchants that currently offer Pre-Black Friday savings.
Here’s my personal notes to this year’s Black Friday:
- If you’re looking for a Wii, they are out there. Just not as many as were hoped. Big retailers to check are Amazon.com (which has been rumored to have the biggest stockpile available), Wal-Mart, and Best Buy.
- There are some good deals on XBOX 360′s this year. However, the Arcade edition just isn’t worth getting. If you’re getting an XBOX, it needs to have a hard drive in it, especially after the New XBOX Experience came out. The Arcade 360 is $200 and comes with a controller and two games.
- Wal-Mart does have an awesome deal if you’re looking to get a 360. The 360 Pro (with hard drive) also comes with Guitar Hero 3: World Tour (the version that comes with a guitar) for $300.
- Playstation 3′s are coming down in price, but are still not quite wear they need to be to compete against the 360. Only buy one if you plan on watching a lot of Blu-Ray movies, as that is its strongest feature in this round of the console wars. I’ve seen nothing below $400.
- Speaking of Blu-Ray, you can get a Magnavox Blu-Ray player fr $200 at Wal-Mart
- Best Buy has a 50″ Plasma TV for $900. If you have the cash for it as a college student, its a great buy, as it’s a Panasonic, which is normally a good brand.
If you are looking for a comparison of all digital cameras (or TV’s, or laptops, etc, etc) then check out Black Friday Ads comparison chart. Buy smart…you don’t want to drop $500 on a paperweight Dynex brand. Ech.
Best of luck to those of you that are going out and about. You’ll likely need it 
.
Posted by Patrick_H Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008
Categories: Deals, Off Campus, Tech
Tags: Amazon, Arcade, Best Buy, Black Friday, Blu-Ray, Braces, Camcorder, Console Wars, Digital Camera, Guitar Hero 3, Laptop, Magnavox, Microsoft, Nintendo, Playstation 3, Pre-Black Friday, Pro, Sony, Television, Thanksgiving, Turkey Coma, TV, Wal-Mart, Wii, World Tour, XBOX 360
