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Posted in Main on Feb 7th, 2010
Today, I got all my gear ready to go for a run and found that my trusted Garmin Forerunner 305 failed to turn on. I put it back in the charger and it went from Charging in Progress to Charging Completed. The device turned on when connected to the charger, but when I removed it, [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 31st, 2010
While it shouldn’t surprise me to have news programs try to increase ratings by alarming the public, I was quite disappointed by NBC’s Nightly News on Saturday. Here’s my letter to them:
On Saturday’s Nightly News, you had a story about the Toyota Recall. In the story, you highlight a retired orthopedic surgeon who had an [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 5th, 2010
Recently I replaced my cell phone and my wife’s phone with new ones. As I was doing so, I was quite careful about not getting a phone that would require me to change my cell phone plan. Many of the new phones (at least on Sprint), can’t be activated on the plan I have. My [...]
Posted in Main on Dec 26th, 2009
I just heard on the news that the TSA and local police were beefing up more security at the Detroit airport. For off, this sounds like closing the barn door after the horses have left. Second off, the flight didn’t originate from Detroit (it didn’t even originate in this country)! So adding more security in [...]
Posted in Main on Dec 26th, 2009
While Christmas was yesterday, I consider today the end of the holiday as it’s when I started to see Christmas trees ready for recycling. While running today, I saw a number of trees at a local drop off facility. This seems like such a waste to me; forget the environmental impact (I’ll get to that [...]
Posted in Main on Dec 20th, 2009
I’ve been a Bank of America customer for many years (I actually started with Security Pacific in 1991 which Bank of America bought). I’m in the process of moving my home loan to another bank because BofA’s rates are pretty awful. As such, I lose my free “Prima Checking” account. So, I’m closing all my [...]
Posted in Main on Dec 14th, 2009
Several months ago, my wife and I bought our son a Tonka Mighty Motorized Garbage Truck from Costco to give him for Hanukkah as he’s a bit scared of the garbage truck coming down the street and we thought that this could help him. We gave him the truck last night and within 5 minutes, [...]
Posted in Main on Nov 21st, 2009
I’ve written in the past criticizing the TSA and up until now, I haven’t been put on any “extra screen” list as far as I know. However, that may change after this post.
I had to fly from San Diego to Newark this past week and encountered a situation with the TSA that reinforces my feelings [...]
Posted in Main on Nov 4th, 2009
It should be pretty obvious that you should use the right tool for the right job. Unfortunately it seems that when I do some home projects, I don’t always have that luxury. Yesterday, however, was an exception. last week I bought a “fiberglass running kit” from Harbor Freight (I love some of the stuff you [...]
Posted in Main on Oct 27th, 2009
Included in my new dishwasher is the standard product registration card from LG Electronics. I usually don’t fill out the registration cards as they don’t affect warranty service. I did briefly look at the card and laughed when I saw it. It said:
Registration can serve as verification of your ownership in the event of product [...]
