Customer support
Consumer Reports has an article on how bad software and product support is getting. In the last two weeks, I’ve had to contact various organizations’ support organizations for a variety of reasons, some tech and some not.
Selling my music collection
I finally have enough room in my garage to fit a car inside. While cleaning it out over the last few weekends, I’ve found a lot of strange stuff. Some of this I’ve thrown away, but the rest has nostalgic value… like my collection of 1980s cassettes. I realized that I don’t have a cassette
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Holy Deep Impact, Batman!
Asteroid Impact Alert Level* Last week the Near Earth Objects Information Centre issued a retraction regarding the earlier news report that 2003 QQ47 had a strong likelihood of impacting in 14 years. Your challenge, gentle reader, generate similar wise-apple comments to a real or fictitous story. (Please keep it clean!)
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Would you like Frys with that?
Fry’s opened up its first store in Washington state. Fry’s is a strange place — sort of a department store for geeks with a large selection of stuff, prices slightly higher than mail-order, theme-based decor, and notoriously oppressive customer service. If you don’t mind the casino feel — and I mean that as in pit
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Donotcall.gov Redux
Since my original, little piece on donotcall.gov, quite a few people have written about opting out. You may send $20 and the form below to:
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Carpenter ants must die
Last year at this time, my wife found carpenter ants in the corner of the garage. We got a quote from an exterminator, but the only option they’d consider required a one year contract with monthly “treatments.” Net outlay would be $300 for the initial treatment plus another $450 for one year of followups.
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My brown thumb
One of the things I miss about Texas is the abundance of cheap and good Tex-Mex. For those of you from other parts of the country, Tex-Mex a spin on traditional Mexican cooking.
Weight Loss
I am back down to my 1989 weight (hooyeah). No gimmicks or mysterious proprietary elixirs were involved; however, I’ll let you in on a secret… it ain’t easy. Gratuitious personal saga followed by my thoughts on weight loss. Unless you’re having a hard time sleeping, you probably want to skip forward a screenful. 🙂 In