To continue the automotive theme this week, each industry has it’s own set of slang words and phrases, and the car business in no different. There are dozens of terms you can find online and in any showroom across the country; these are just some of my favorites. I’m sure I’m missing some other good [...]
I wish I’d taken a picture of this mailer I got last week from the hometown Ford dealer. It was so awesomely scammy I’m afraid my description won’t do it justice. Full color, quality card stock, they really went all out. One side was designed to look like the cover of USA Today, and had [...]
Rims are the 21st century human evolutionary equivalent of a peacock’s tail. Both the car rims and peacock tails serve only one purpose: to attract the attention of a potential mate. = On the other hand, they both come with severe drawbacks. They’re expensive to acquire and maintain — in terms of money and/or time [...]
Twenty thousand of my closest friends and I got up at 5:00am Sunday to run the streets of San Francisco in the 2009 San Francisco Marathon and Half Marathon. Yes, I totally cropped the people in front of me from this picture to make it look like I’m winning. I did the Half. The course [...]
Yesterday on the way home from the gym, I stopped by the McDonald’s drive-thru for some sweet tea. I became addicted to the stuff during my time in Atlanta, and as far as I know, McDonald’s is one of the only places you can get it outside the South. And I think it’s only available [...]
