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Written by Tony
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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My mom reminded me yesterday that Christmas is next week. Wow! I had to look it up (not that I didn't trust her) but yeah, it's late next week already. Ok, go ahead and panic now. :-) I saw some cool ideas to give more to charity and either cut back or make gifts for people. That's not a bad idea. Charities need help and with Obama coming into power soon, it would be good to make more donations now and get a tax refund and then save it - you'll need it. Be careful about gift cards. Don't get one from a business that might not be in business. Those Visa gift cards from banks actually sound like a better idea this year. Merry Christmas!! -Tony
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Written by Tony
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
#1: Brake lights: Ok, so I'm out today trying to get to Middleton from the east side of Madison this morning. It's snowing a little, people are driving slow and that's fine. This SUV pulls in front of me... great. Their back window is blacked out and I'm in a small sportscar, so now I can't see too much in front of me anymore - just her brake lights. Then she's hitting her brakes for every little bump in the road because she's riding the tail of the car in front of her. BAD! Eventually I passed her and she looked clueless.
If you're driving in winter weather, put more distance between you and the car in front of you. Duh!
And do NOT keep jumping on your brakes. You do that and wonder why the traffic is so slow... because of people like you slowing everyone down, causing more stress by tapping those brakes for every little stinking thing. It is possible to just ease off your gas pedal. You don't need to always have your foot on a pedal. Maybe that wasn't covered in driver's ed, I don't know. I've figured that much out though.
#2: Cruise control: I'm heading up to Cascade Mountain the other morning and I start to pass a car. No wait, they're speeding up. They were not with me the whole time, but when I come up to them and they increase their speed. No wait... now they're slowing down. Ugh, now the most annoying thing... they're matching my speed and I'm stuck in their blind spot.
Why does the speed I'm driving affect your speed? If I wasn't there would you arrive at your destination later? Why?
This has happened more than once in the last few weeks and I'm starting to understand why people do this. Since we had Presidential elections recently, some people still have their election stickers on their cars (here in Madison, the Kerry-Edwards stickers stayed on people's cars for years and were just covered up with Obama '08 stickers) and this tells you a little about their beliefs. Most of the cars that do not use cruise control and are affected by what speed other people are driving are Democrats. And that totally fits their M.O.: see which way the wind is blowing and adjust according to that rather than stand on something firm and consistent.
So my conclusion so far is that people's values/beliefs affect both their driving and their voting. It of course affects other things but it's interesting how these two are related. Do your own research and let me know if I'm right.
-Tony
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Written by Tony
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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Check out the pictures someone sent me (click into this story). They don't have much of an infrastructure set up like here in the US with storm sewers but if we had this much rain, we'd have problems, too! -Tony |
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Written by Tony
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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I just saw a demo of this thing and it's pretty cool. It's the SanDisk Sansa and it has:
- An MP3 player
- Flash drive
- 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB or 8 GB of space for music or files
- Digital FM radio tuner with 20 presets
- Voice recorder with built-in microphone
- Watch video clips or photos on its 1.9 " color screen - on some models
I don't need one since my iPhone does all this but it would be a great gift for someone at a nice price. Nice!
-Tony
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Written by Tony
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
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I like the show but this actress they have playing the advanced Terminator with the red hair just bugs me. She's not a good actress and is sometimes hard to understand. I know she's playing a character that doesn't show much emotion, which can't be easy but still. The Cameron character (Summer Glau) does a nice job and is the best looking Terminator to date. I like the show. It's one of the few that I have a season pass for. -T
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