Hey Yelp, Fuck You and Your Horse

Saturday, January 21st, 2012, in Random Thoughts

Before I dive into this… you should read this Wired article from a couple years ago about Yelp and some “fraud allegations.” Article Here Very short version is that Yelp was being accused (by many) of strong-arming small businesses into paying up to bury negative reviews and “favorite” positive ones to get a better overall review on the service. Those are some pretty serious allegations for a site that is supposed to be user driven [...]

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Dear Republicans: You Can’t Be This Stupid

Thursday, January 5th, 2012, in Random Thoughts

Before you read my words, you may want to read these: Rick Santorum is Coming for Your Birth Control Rick Santorum Opposes Contraception Now… moving on. I may be registered as a Democrat – but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t vote for the most qualified (or least-crazy) person for the job, regardless of party affiliation. I just want a person to run the country who isn’t a complete retard and can some day make the [...]

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Bedroom = Almost Done

Monday, December 26th, 2011, in The Life of Me

The rebuilding began with new windows and some new drywall. FINALLY. It was probably a month or two ago at this point, but we had some new drywall and new windows put into each of our bedrooms because of the mold and other problems. And after that was actually completed, we were able to start putting our bedroom back together again. It started with a new dresser for me. In moving our furniture around we [...]

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Your Unreasonable Expectations are Not My Problem

Friday, December 9th, 2011, in Random Thoughts

(Disclaimer: this is long) I’ve been buying and selling on eBay for well over 10 years. I’ve never had a problem. I’ve had stupid people that are just stupid but never ongoing, dumb issues. Until now. I was selling a Tron: Legacy package that I had won via Twitter from Progressive Insurance. It included a tshirt, a light up pen, a drawstring bag and a poster. The poster was oddly two sided with a mirror [...]

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How Can You Beat a Free iPad 2?

Friday, November 11th, 2011, in Nerdy Things

How about 24 free iPad 2s? I’ve been a fan of ZAGG for a while now. Their InvisibleShield is a fantastic screen protector and I’ve had it on my 3GS, 4, iPad, and now my Galaxy S2. I’m also on my 2nd set of SmartBuds headphones (first set developed a short while I was traveling). In the social world ZAGG is probably best known for their crazy give-aways. An iPad per week. An iPad per [...]

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Now is the Time for Whoring

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011, in The Life of Me

So… we’re getting married. You might have heard that part before. And if you’ve been paying attention to Jen and I elsewhere on the internets, you’d know it goes further than that. Here’s the very short version: we are taking a road trip to Las Vegas in the spring to get married. How awesome does that sound? Pretty awesome I think. Here’s the thing though – you can follow us through our planning, preparation and [...]

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My Android Data Problem

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011, in Phones & Apps

Overall I’d still say I’m more than satisfied with my Galaxy S II. The device itself is fantastic. It’s thin, light, powerful, has a gorgeous screen, and decent battery life. I really cannot find any faults with the hardware. Some of the software, on the other hand, I take issue with. Android as a whole is nice. But there are some things that either don’t make sense to me, or I don’t care about. The [...]

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Root Your AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II with a Mac, Easily

Monday, October 17th, 2011, in Phones & Apps

So I’ve come to a situation with my phone (to be explained later) that has all but required me to root it. Well, basically it HAS required me to root it because I have yet to find an actual solution that doesn’t involve rooting. Anyway… I’ve been reading root info and stuff for the last few weeks and all I can say is that the way these people write these things, it doesn’t seem as [...]

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2011 AutoX Season Summary

Sunday, October 16th, 2011, in Cars & Racing

Going into any autox season is usually a pretty exciting time for me… and with a brand new car that (at the time) was just 6 months old, there was a whole other level of anticipation involved. I was going from a 160-ish HP, FWD, naturally aspirated car with quite a few suspension modifications to a 100% stock, 265 HP, AWD, turbo monster. Time to throw out the rule book. Everything I had learned in [...]

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Car Drama… Continued

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011, in Cars & Racing

Before we begin… let’s make sure you’re up to speed. You’ll want to read this. Go ahead… I’ll wait. Back? Awesome, let’s go. So after waiting over a week to get an appointment because they only have ONE certified Subaru technician (this makes me very nervous) I dropped my car off yesterday to finally get everything fixed (and by “everything” I mean fixing the wheel bearing, replacing the steering rack, fixing the rear seat latch [...]

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