Posted in car, merchandise, tagged buying, cars, selling, the free market on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love craigslist, it’s second only to insurance auctions for cars which are mildly beat up but still running. There’s a really bad signal-to-noise ratio on craigslist, probably worse than ebay. And I find the stuff on craigslist car-wise is stuff that wouldn’t sell on ebay. Case in point: 1998 (actually I think [...]
Posted in guns, merchandise, politics, shooting on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I swear you can’t make this stuff up. The names and locations will be changed to protect the innocent.
It was Smith and Wesson Day at the local range, so I was doing my two favorite weekend activities: Giving advice and spending someone else’s money. He had been looking at a few different guns but since [...]
Posted in car, technology, tagged CNG, LPG on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
The guy who owned the diesel was nuts, and basically tried to fish me along with the old, “Well I’ve got a deposit, but if you meet this price over here…”
I hate that crap. I just hung up on him. If he’s really got a deposit, it’s good as sold. If he doesn’t [...]
Posted in politics, technology, tagged Air Force, Cyberspace on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the war on Anonymous… OK who am I kidding they probably hang out in the partyvan. Anyway, Wired has a piece on the new Air Force cybercommand. They also have a website, which looks like a good way to get paid for learning systems administration skills. On the other hand, it’s not terribly interesting [...]
Posted in car, merchandise, tagged china, motorcycles on February 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Continuing the horrors of automobiles thread here, I recently ran across Chinese motorcycle imports completely by accident. The company is called LiFan, and it makes just about everything you see in the corner of your local pep boys. The importers don’t say a whole lot about the bikes, but it seems that you purchase a [...]
Posted in car, tagged cars, Jeeps, mechanics on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The fun thing about car shopping on the low end is you find all sorts of really incredible stuff.
So far I’ve found:
An ice cream truck. I almost bought it but then I couldn’t figure out how to lure a bear into it.
Old postal service jeeps. There’s a ton of these out there.
Incredibly [...]
Posted in car, merchandise, technology, tagged cars, fuel economy, mechanics on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I drive a 1991 Turbocharged Toyota MR2. According to the government, it gets about 18 and 24 MPG. This is all well and good, but the maintenance interval is incredibly short. You will change the oil every 3000 miles and it will take all four and some change quarts. The timing belt itself needs changing [...]
Posted in politics, technology on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
If I was going to point to something and play the “It’s a conspiracy” game, I would point to the undersea cables being taken offline. Anyone else have any thoughts? It’s certainly cheaper than The Great (fire)Wall of China, and also a little less obvious then your local imam smashing your DirectTV dish.
