Help me. I really don’t get this one. Here’s the deal: auto-makers like, oh, say… GM, make big-inefficient-gas-guzzling-truck-cars. Their entire business model is built around selling such things. Their entire profit structure revolves around people’s gullibility to buy such things. Here are the lies: buy them because they’re safer, or handle better, or go through [...]
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Auto-maker rescue
Posted in Miscellany, Suburbia, Techie on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Water the Driveway
Posted in Suburbia on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Suburbia… land of waste and want. Barren, soulless and lifeless, except for lawns which are high on Tru-Green. What better thing to do on a hot afternoon than water the driveway? And maybe, just maybe, get some on the drug-crazed lawn.
That’s what you’ll see walking around a suburban neighborhood. That’s what you’ll wonder about [...]
Annual rite of spring
Posted in Suburbia on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It happens every year. The annual burn out or burn off or ultimate stupidity. Whatever you call it, the practice is mind boggling. It is the annual rite of, you guessed it, running your snow blower until all the leftover gas is used up.
What a truly bizarre site it is to see all those snow [...]
