All Posts Tagged With: "technology"

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking for a replacement vehicle … so when my buddy “Old Red” eventually dies on the side of the road (note: I don’t want this to happen anytime soon, believe me … because me and this car have history. We go like everywhere together, to be honest with you) I’ll at least have a backup plan ready to go!

So here’s the scoop: I’m actually no spring chicken when it comes to buying cars … in fact, this next purchase will be my eleventh one, and to be honest with you most of them were European even though I like to support the U.S. of A. (sorry American motor companies … try churning out some quality stuff like you use to back in the day, and that may all change. Highly unlikely though, I should add here, as I think you’ve forgotten how great you could be if you actually gave a crap). I’m also world-traveled, so I’m not going to ignorantly shout out that American cars are the best, because most of them are actually not (to top this off, I think most of them are pretty shoddy)! Continued

Got you eye on that latest piece of technology?

Well, you better take it off right now, because it almost never pays to be the first one on the block to be suckered into the marketer’s bulls@#t, and that goes with any new technology (these greedy bastards have to regurgitate the same old crap because it’s their jobs … but it’s not yours to be ripped off by them). Whether it be the latest computer (I think desktop P.C.s are going to be a dead technology pretty soon … I give them a year or two until that fateful death cry) or a new kind of cell phone (“Oh, this one plays …” I often hear. Who gives a s@#t, why do you need that stupid feature anyways?) a fancy new car or anything else that has the prefix “latest” to it — if you buy it too soon, you will be paying way too much for it, because at the time it will be untested and probably an unreliable product, which hasn’t had all of its bugs worked out yet! Continued

Flying home for the holidays this year? Better read this first …

This holiday season is going to be filled with both good and bad news for budget-minded travelers. The bad news is that fares are much higher than usual (whatever that means, right?) flight capacity is way down and any last-minute deals are becoming scarcer to get (at least, that’s the way I’m seeing things). The good, no great, news is that if you’re the frugal type that likes to do your homework and plan ahead, you’re more than likely going to save (or have already saved, for you early-birders) as much money as physically possible in these trying times — where the airlines are just not getting “it” in our struggling economy (note: their latest “add-on” charges haven’t dropped a cent).

You’re a family man, and you’re not going to cancel your holiday plans of flying home to see everyone, I get that! So, why let the economy get you down? Why even contemplate the thought of not being able to visit your family members and old friends? That, my pal, is the single-biggest reason for travel this time of year, so do yourself a huge favor and go for it, while at the same time not breaking your bank! The following will help you out with that issue: Continued