Well I was excited for this. I don’t know if I am as the three things that they needed to address are not listed. MPG, Price and design. They updated it (however there had better be a bench seat or that is a non starter for me). Price is not listed (you could get a more powerful car from Chevy or Dodge for the same…

Done this many of times. I just tell them the truth. My parents own, I am just using their points, and I will never purchase. Most sales people will try a little, but I repeat my statement, and tell them I was promised a gift for attending the presentation. Simple, repeatable, and worked many times.

Technically 6 years old. Now there is a caveat to that. That was my college fund. What ever I did not spend on college, I got to keep. When I graduated college at 25 (yeah grad school), it had grown from $10k at 6 to $60k (minus what ever I took out to pay for 7 years of college) at 25. I still have that account now…

I helped my dad do this to my mother. I was working in the mailroom when I was in college at a GM subsidiary and my Father worked there as well. I get a call and find out it is my dad (which if you knew my dad, calling me at work was something he would never do). He told me my grandfather died that morning and he…

I worked for a company which you all would recognize. I was in a department (tier 3 for hosting websites) which was absorbed by another department (tier 2 for all servers in the company). I was the Subject Matter Expert in the new department of the old hosting environment. Sounds great huh. Well I was in that job for…

Honestly I see this as the death keel for the diesel in cars. They have made the exhaust too damn restrictive. Yes the torque is nice and it gets much better gas mileage, but now they keep turning the screws to make it so you cannot meet emissions. I don’t know if it is the gas companies, they US auto companies, the…

I do not think that it is the biggest problem. I think that the biggest problem is that they don’t take into consideration how the family’s income is being spent on the college. My income is 100% not going to be paid for my son’s college. I gave my son a ton of money when he was 3 for college, and that was his college…

I doubt this was legal. Not that you could not claim your daughter, but as a head of household. She had to have a dependent to legally claim head of household. She was legally single.

You know its funny. I have been wondering why the Mazda Sky-Active Diesel cannot get the US EPA Certificate, but the VW Diesel can (and without Urea). Now I know why. This should make the Mazda engineers quit pulling their hair out.

People have always laughed at me, but I only order new cars. This way I can cross shop between dealers. I walk in and say I am ordering a car. Here are the specs (as I have never found a 100% car on the lot I want), how much is it to order it? I have found that Japanese car dealers are less likely to play ball here,…

Late model used chevy cruze or what ever. Small enough they aren’t driving their friends all the time, cheap enough to dump if they wreck it, and you won’t mind the dents ;)

Technically when you say it “alerts programs” it searches which programs which have open read/write threads on the disk and tells them to finish.

Yeah ... almost 3 time that as I am a big boy.

I am in my 40’s and do this every so often. Last night actually. 15 beers (plus jello shots, and a glass of nice burbon) in 6 hours. No ill-effects. I drank water/lemonade near the end of the night, and made sure I had plenty of food. Sadly wasn’t buzzed however.

I glued a magnet on the top of my cooler (inside), and got a 50 cent church key and leave it in there. The string method works as well.

Leather seats and heated seats, I will never own them if I have to pay for them .. I actively do not buy cars that have leather or heated seats. Subaru outback is off my list as the only way to get the 3.6 engine is with leather seats .. so that car is not on my list. I would love a manual but any car that can have…

Bolivia Special. It was the last of the specials before they tried to make them artifically hard, and the episodes just got crazy expensive for the sake of crazy expensive. Plus I think this was the last time they were themselves before they started scripting the gags.

465 - the beltway around Indianapolis. It is 6-16 lanes wide and it is 55mph - the entire 38 mile loop. Everyone drives 70mph at least, and frequently you get passed going those speeds. The Indianapolis City Council has had many bills presented to up the speed limits, but they have stated (on record) that the revenue…

Personally I won’t consider the NHTSA worth a crap until the recall my car. Yes it is now almost 10 years old but the initial complaints to the NHTSA were in 2005. The damn driver seat breaks at the brackets as they were made too weak. The drivers seat is not connected to the car any more. 450+ complaints. NHTSA…

Simple. Research. I negotiate contracts all the time as I am a consultant by trade. I know based on simple google searches what consultants make in my area and if someone wants to low ball me I call them on it. I have also negotiated offers for full time work and the same thing applies. Know what is 100%, 75%, 50%,…