‘consumer stuff’ Archives
Harris Teeter and Pumpkin Pie Yankee Candles
One exciting element of my day was going to the new Harris Teeter at Guess Rd and Horton Rd (the “Willow Haven” store as opposed to the now-closed Willowdaile store). I spun a wheel to win a coupon for free Harris Teeter ice cream, a $5.29 value! (And now I will [Read More]
Roof of All Evil
My home got a new roof today, for reasons I won’t care to get into. Despite the title of this post, I don’t really want to write about the roof right now. I have some general questions. I know about as much about maintaining a house as Sarah Palin knows about [Read More]
“eco-friendly” cleaning service generates parking garage full of litter
Any car parked in the ATC South parking deck got a laminated postcard on its windshield some time around noon yesterday. The postcard was for Zen Cleaning or something like that. I forget the exact name, and I’ll correct this later if I can find one of these post [Read More]
Dell, Lenovo, or Apple?
If I were to buy a laptop today and had $1000-$1500 to spend, what should I buy and why? While I wouldn’t mind having a Mac, I’m ambivalent. Most of what I do with a computer is web-based. I could remote to a PC if I need to run PC apps. Don’t want to [Read More]
I spoke too soon…Verizon, you suck, too
I was telling the sales rep at Costco that while it would be good to have the same functionality in my new phone that I had with my old one, I didn’t care too much about the music player or getting TV on my phone or having a full keyboard. I wanted a decent phone [Read More]
Bye bye Sprint!
One of the mistakes I made in 2007 was re-upping with Sprint for yet another 2-year-contract with the upgrade to a new phone back in January. I’d been a Sprint customer since 1998, having gone through at least 5 different phones. As of today, I’m free of Sprint! [Read More]
Mobile phone provider survey
I was going to post another rant about my cell phone provider. I might very well cancel my service and pay the fee in exchange for the peace of mind to be done with this company after all this time. But I’ve decided to gather some data first. I created a simple [Read More]
Thinking of buying an Amazon Kindle?
I have nothing to say about it…well, just that if you want to buy one, you should buy your Kindle through THIS LINK because Amazon really wants to sell Kindles, so they’re giving nice commissions to their associates, and well, frankly, if I just sell one1 [Read More]
I’ve been a bad, bad liberal
Forgive me, Al Gore, for I have sinned. Last night, I shopped at Wal-Mart. I did so willfully. I figured it was a good place to look for an item I was needing for my Halloween costume. But I didn’t find it. Instead, I, and this is painful to admit, I bought groceries. [Read More]
