A few more photos from the road trip earlier this week.
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Every other median along the highway has these little purple buds just rising above the grass mixed in with the white flowers from the last post. Very serene.
Road Trip 03 30 10 d
I managed to take a few photos while I was on the road trip yesterday.
The medians were filled with generously sprinkled little white dots along the way. Every so often, there was a patch that fully opened and were catching the hot breeze as it raced by.
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RoadTrip 03 30 10 a
Sprint just announced a new “Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money-Back” offer.
“Beginning tomorrow, the Sprint Free Guarantee gives any customer opening a new line of service the chance to try Sprint for 30 days. If a customer isn’t completely satisfied, they can get reimbursed for the device purchase and activation fee, get the early termination fee waived, get a full refund for service plan monthly recurring charges incurred and get all associated taxes and Sprint surcharges associated with these charges waived. In addition, Sprint will waive the restocking fee for new customer exchanges as part of this policy.”
Dear Verizon: Wow. The gauntlet has been thrown. Any response?
Dear AT&T : You suck. Don’t bother pulling out some father’s brother’s newphew’s cousin’s former roommate of a celebrity for some lame commercials to pretend you can keep up with this.
For complete information about the Sprint Free Guarantee visit, www.sprint.com/guarantee beginning tomorrow.
Just saw this over on Consumerist…
“Following up on yesterday’s news that Apple is preparing to start production on Verizon-compatible iPhones, the Wall Street Journal now says that AT&T has been working since December to improve their existing networks to remain competitive when the inevitable battle for iPhone market share begins.”
Oh, now AT&T wants to improve their network now that a company with a superior network is coming along to take their customers!
Dear AT&T: It’s too late chumps. Far too late. For years I’ve had nothing but miserable service from since I purchased my iPhone. Constantly dropped calls. Calls that will not go through even after 4 or 5 tries. Suddenly getting a “7 missed calls” notice on my iPhone when it hasn’t rung all day. Having less than 1 bar 90% of the time. Phone conversations so distorted it sounds like I’m talking to an electronic robot and not another human being.
I can honestly say in the 12 years that I’ve had cell phones, AT&Ts service has been the absolute worst. The pinnacle of rotten, slipshod, and pathetic efforts that only a doddering company far past its’ time would have the nerve to pass off and sell. The fact that you launched a “100-day plan in late 2009” and are only now getting your pathetic tech up to date proves you really don’t give a damn about your customers.
You are the proud owners of the technical equivalent of a pitted gravel farm road, and are only now dimly aware of the concrete overpass about to take your livelihood away.
For the record, as of today, I’ve successfully kept 14 people off AT&T’s cellular service. That’s not a lot of people, but it’s 14 customers who now have a chance with a real wireless phone company.
I hope the Verizon story is true this time.
Here’s the story on Consumerist and on the Wall Street Journal.
Another 4 hour road trip today through the Texas valley! New posts probably won’t be up until tomorrow.
This isn’t mine. I found it on a wallpaper website but nobody knows who originally made it.
It had me laughing for awhile though. You have to click to enlarge this one.
Hellloooooo bear!
If anyone has any idea who made it, please let me know!
My nerd card is getting a real workout today.
President Obama is holding a Thundercats sword with what appears to be a genuine blade.
Thundercats!
Right. So who’s Mumm-Ra?
EDIT: It’s a fake!
More photoshopped images of President Obama playing with assorted toys here.
File this under “amazingly good to know”.
Apparently the leader of the “Tea Party”, Dick Armey, was a pretty busy guy! Before leading the “Tea Party”, Armey spent “years spent lobbying for a group recognized by the State Department as being a terrorist organization.”
D’oh!
The article goes on to say… “from 2005 to 2009, Armey promoted the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, otherwise known as Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), which the State Department has branded a terrorist group. Armey lobbied his former colleagues on behalf of legislation that would have provided taxpayer support to the MEK.”
And as an extra special bonus, from 2005 to 2008, “two Iranian-American businessmen: Akbar Nikooie and Saied Ghaemi… paid out $910,000 to DLA Piper for the service of Armey, his former staffer Jean Campbell, and a handful of other lobbyists to bring issues relating to Iranian “foreign relations” and “human rights” to the attention of Congress, the Department of Defense, the State Department, the White House, the National Security Council and the Department of the Treasury.””
Of course, none of this is on his bio page or on the Tea Party website.
Hmmmm……
You can read about his little past indiscretions here.
UPDATE: The “full” webpage with comments is here.
UPDATE II: The “comments” on the news website are hilarious. “Why the focus on the personalities rather than the idea?” Ah, hypocritical much? Reason #546,781 I don’t trust the left or the right “movements”.
I’m going to max out my nerd card early this week by posting this…
If the island turns out to be a hellmouth, I’m gonna start writing my own TV shows!
Every Monday I like to post some music to start the week off on the right foot.
This week’s post? The SXSW 2010 Winner of Best Music Video, Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Runnin’ Down a Dream
And finally Harry Belafonte and the Muppets – Turn the World Around