Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Requests
Put those boxing gloves on Google! You are in the right!
Archive for January, 2006
I just got a pre-painted rear bumper to replace my current cracked bumper. I did a quick search on Google to get some details how to take the bumper off and came across this article:
This is one fast little car. What makes it very cool is that it is meant for driving daily and gets almost 30 mpg. I tell you what, I would gladly give up my 33 mpg for 29 mpg to have that kind of performance.
Now when is Honda or some other manufacturer going to make a sub compact sport model coupe with a high performance hybrid engine? Looking at the stats on the Accord hybrid, it seems such a hybrid sport would be extremely popular. Especially if it had lots of computer controls for us nerdy peeps!
Check out the Chevy Camaro Concept.
The design has some nice lines but looks like they are trying too hard to make it modern looking. My opinion, simplify the fenders and remove the arrow shape in the front of the car and you have yourself a pretty close to a classic Camaro.
Now, will they build a Firebird from the same chassis and/or body? Chances are they will, but everyone knows the best selling years of the Firebirds where when the Smokey and the Bandit movies were released, mainly 1978 and 1980 were the highest production years for the Firebirds/Trans Ams. Now if they share the same chassis but have different fenders, that would rock!
Hopefully they will manufacture a Trans Am that looks similar to the 1978. If they do, I will shit myself. Then I will get a loan and buy myself a black one with T-tops and a screaming chicken on the hood!
If you have not herd, the price of stamps is going up next week (Jan 8th) to 39 cents (currently 37 cents). I remember in the 80’s when stamps were 19 cents. Stamps have doubled in price in my life time. That’s just nuts!
Many of us complain about the 39 cents but we don’t think about the other expenses that go into sending mail via the US Post Office. First, you need to make an investment in a plastic or metal box that you put on a wood or metal post near the end of your drive way. Factor in all the paper you use in the form of envelopes, paper for letters and the most expensive “paper checks”, and your letters may get up to 50+ cents each to send! You could easily save 2 cents by shopping around for future mailboxes, buy cheaper paper, and don’t mail checks.
Now what confuses me is how the mailbox you pay for becomes federal property. If someone steals your mailbox, its a federal crime! Now if someone hits and kills someone with a mailbox, is that a felony? It is, of course, government property.
I guess that is why we don’t hear about murders committed with mailboxes! I think I am just going to pay the extra 2 cents with confidence the mailbox is not going to do me in.
