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Progressive Pain
Progressive is living up to their name. The insurance company hasn’t assessed liability after a week, so I went down to the 78th precinct today and got a copy of the police report, which I scanned and...
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Write a Letter – It Helps
My latest corporate crusade was against AT&T/Cingular: I tried to upgrade M’s and my phones. We’re on a family plan so the hyper-incetivized offers from Amazon do not apply (the small print...
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PSFC – Make Ups Before You Start
I did my first shift at the Park Slope Food Co-op tonight. I’m doing data entry for “make up” shifts. The filing and database system is quirky to say the least, but it seems to work. So now I’m only...
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Immobilzed!
M drove the car into Manhattan twice last weekend. On the way back from her second trip the car wouldn’t start; it would turn over, catch, rev, and die, but it wouldn’t stay running. Eventually we...
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Etymotic ER-6 Review
M got me these Etymotic ER-6 headphones about a year ago. I’ve been using them during my daily hour-long MTA commute ever since. They sound great. That is, if you don’t mind the “ear plug” design and...
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Leap Into Leopard?
I’ve been using OSX “Leopard” for some time now. My review: meh. There are some things that run faster and I like the data detector. The UI “improvements” are actually downgrades in most cases: e.g...
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Mac’s Aluminum Keyboard: not so great
File under: rant. I’m using Apple’s new slimline aluminum “chicklet” keyboard to post this message. I’ve had it for a while and I like it a lot. It has a USB hub that’s built into the underside at the...
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Sandisk Cruder
Do not buy a Sandisk Cruzer. First of all, I use a Mac, so the U3 “technology” was useless to me and even gummed up my system a bit. I was able to remove that firmware and get the USB drive working...
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How Can Brown Screw You?
I had to ship some boots back to New Hampshire this evening. I visited the local UPS Store in Park Slope and the gentlemen there helped me out. However, they charge a whopping $1.25 to tape closed a 6″...
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Why I Only Buy Vinyl (and Don’t Buy Many E-Books)
In 1982 I bought my first LP: Echo and the Bunnymen’s Crocodiles. In 1986, I recorded the vinyl to tape so that I could listen to it in my car. In college (1990), I bought the same album on CD. In...
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