Auto Warranty Scam
posted over 3 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 1 comment
You receive a "final notice" from an address in Florida for what would appear to be an offer to extend your warranty. As some of us paid for extended warranties it's easy to take this offer at face value. Note that nowhere on this mailer does it m...
At what price do you slow down?
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Gas is running from $4.50 to $5.00 in Northern California yet people are still zipping down the freeway at high speed burning gas like it was water. So I wonder at what price per gallon does everyone slow down? Certain of the deep bodied pickup tr...
TV Ends Feb 17, 2009
posted over 4 years ago, updated 14 minutes later | 0 comments
It has received cursory coverage in the press but most people do not know that TV, as we know it, signs off forever on Feb 17th, 2009. All over-the-air analog broadcasting will cease. If you are on cable or satellite nothing will change. But all t...
Testing the candidates
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
I would trade all the campaign speeches for a simple test. I would take the candidates one by one to a gas station to see if they can negotiate the credit card terminal on the gas pump, then pump a tank of gas, and collect the receipt. Extra point...
