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Get Your Commercials Out of My Shows
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / February 22, 2011Last I checked commercial breaks are for commercials. TV shows are for TV shows. And the two should be mixed as little as possible. Tonight's example is White Collar. I've never actually seen the s...
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Parking 101: How to Not Suck
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / February 18, 2011If you are any sort of car person or care the least bit about your car, there is one daily activity that may make you cringe... parking. Of course, it is not so much the act of parking (even though so...
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Convenience is an Upcharge
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / January 21, 2011Or "Why Online Retailers are Way Awesome"... I was shopping for a few little things and thought I'd whip up a quick comparison of what I was looking at. The results, while on the low end of actual ...
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I Still Hate You, TWC
By ack154 / in The Life of Me / January 8, 2011Not only is my RemoteDVR issue STILL not resolved (I've all but given up)... but now I can't even enjoy the Showtime Free Preview Weekend and catch up on some Dexter. None of my Showtime channels a...
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TWC: I Hate You and Your Support Still Sucks
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / December 20, 2010Take a trip back in time with me... how far? How about a month? Back when I first had to rant on and on about Time Warner Cable's less than stellar support. What a trip that was. I did eventually get ...
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Netflix: Skipping the Lube Since Forever
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / November 22, 2010I can understand paying more money for access to BluRay discs. That's fine. I like the BR option and get anything in BR that I can. We currently have the 3 at a time plan and it costs about $23 / mont...
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Where You Should Not Be Checking In
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / November 19, 2010Everyone seems to want to play Foursquare in their own little way... Thankfully, most people are at least somewhat on the same page. There are others, however, that seem to want to do things... a litt...
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I Think I’ve Had About Enough
By ack154 / in The Life of Me / August 20, 2010Consider this scenario... Someone wants to spend $28k at your car dealership and has money available. Do you... a) Try to help out, but put forth no actual effort? b) Do everything possibl...
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You’re Killing Me Here, Subaru
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / August 10, 2010There are some times when you feel like you're getting some sort of run around from people... like when you try to do anything with the government. The DMV for example, it just feels like those people...
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How Come No One Wants to Get Back to Me?
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / August 6, 2010Is customer service dead? Three times this week I've emailed a company using their online form on their website... and I have yet to receive an actual response from any one of them. First was an...
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