Comments for Binarynomad https://binarynomad.com/blog Practicing contextual relativity for over 30 years... Sat, 21 May 2016 22:27:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.24 Comment on *snicker* by Laptop Disposal reading https://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/07/snicker/comment-page-1#comment-30322 Sat, 21 May 2016 22:27:50 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/07/snicker#comment-30322 One thing I’d prefer to say is the fact before getting more personal computer memory, look at the machine directly into which it could well be installed. If the machine is usually running Windows XP, for instance, a memory threshold is 3.25GB. Using more than this would merely constitute a waste. Make sure one’s motherboard can handle the upgrade quantity, as well. Interesting blog post.

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Comment on Not just another year… by Jefferson https://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/08/22/not-just-another-year/comment-page-1#comment-30137 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:11:04 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/?p=402#comment-30137 Hope you had a wonderful birthday! Sorry we weren’t able to attend. We were out of town.

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Comment on The Great Office War… by Jefferson https://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/06/18/the-great-office-war/comment-page-1#comment-30133 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:49:41 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/?p=396#comment-30133 That is awesome!!! Reposting …

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Comment on I get knocked down … by Renee Dillon https://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/01/03/i-get-knocked-down/comment-page-1#comment-30125 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:47:31 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/01/03/i-get-knocked-down#comment-30125 …leastways it seems your business is going well enough to have clients to bill.

🙂

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Comment on *snicker* by Si https://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/07/snicker/comment-page-1#comment-30123 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:58:42 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/07/snicker#comment-30123 ha ha! i finally caught up to you, Girl-Genius-Quoter! now i’ve got you! mwa-ha-ha-ha!

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Comment on Jiffy Lube warning by david https://binarynomad.com/blog/2006/08/28/jiffy-lube-warning/comment-page-1#comment-30122 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:13:25 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/2006/08/28/jiffy-lube-warning/#comment-30122 Don’t get me started on Jiffy Lube! A few years ago, prior to a big family road trip, I took my Nissan Pathfinder into my neighborhood Jiffy Lube for their “Signature Service” (oil and transmission fluid change, etc.). The next day we set off with the Pathfinder packed to the roof with my wife, kids and a ton of camping gear, including dinner for two other families awaiting our arrival at a remote backcountry campsite.

An hour down the highway our transmission began grinding badly. It sounded like low fluid. We limped back to town stuck in second gear, drove into Jiffy Lube and cornered the manager. “Let’s take a look,” he said, opening the hood. The next thing I knew, he checked the fluid level and–without a word–filled the transmission fluid reservoir. Then he asked me to direct my complaint to the owner when he returned to the shop in a couple of hours.

When I came back to speak with the owner, he checked the fluid level and said it was fine. “Of course there’s enough fluid,” I replied. “Your employee filled the reservoir as soon as I returned!”.

“Really?” said the owner. “Where is that employee who can back up your story?” You can guess the rest: the employee who topped off the fluid was nowhere to be seen, and the owner dismissed my complaint.

As it developed, my tranny was completely destroyed. I escalated the issue to Jiffy Lube corporate, who refused to be held responsible for their franchisee. So I went after the franchisee, who owned several Jiffy Lubes. His rep came by the transmission shop to examine “the transmission whose fluid we left low”, then he engaged me in what turned out to be weeks of haggling over the repairs, while I drove a costly rented car all the while.

At one point the rep offered me a junkyard transmission as a replacement. When I held out for a rebuild, he said “our conversation is over, and I never offered you a replacement transmission…you cannot prove I did”.

Clearly, this was well-practiced stonewalling. So I consulted an attorney, who suggested that Jiffy Lube probably ran a legal machine built around tying up and waiting out claims in the $4,000-$10,000 range, so my best bet would be to get what I could in small claims court even though the small claims limit would still leave me $2,000 in the hole.

So that’s what I did. Jiffy Lube didn’t even appear to contest the claim. The small claims judge expressed his weariness at yet another such case in his court, awarded me the maximum, then moved on to the next case on the docket…a nearly identical suit from someone made poorer by Grease Monkeys Inc!

“Never trust your car to these little lube shops,” said the transmission shop owner as I handed over a whopping check. “Their employees were probably flipping burgers a month before; they are not mechanics.”

Learn from my mistake. Don’t get jiffy screwed.

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Comment on *snicker* by Si https://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/07/snicker/comment-page-1#comment-30119 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:44:10 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/07/snicker#comment-30119 the world IS lucky: lucky that you are alive in it. talent does not trouble make; you are the soul of peace and compassion, Brian. i’d trust you with WMD any day. no one better.

who are you quoting, btw?

remember this one too: “And it Harm none, Do what you will.”

lovelove!!

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Comment on The Lucifer Effect by Brian https://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/04/the-lucifer-effect/comment-page-1#comment-30118 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:02:14 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/04/the-lucifer-effect#comment-30118 Hehe, I agree, Blink is a good recommendation, I listened to Malcom Gladwell speak at SXSW in 2005, and I was so intrigued, that I decided to purchase his book.

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Comment on Orange wedge in the corner pocket by Si https://binarynomad.com/blog/2005/01/17/orange-wedge-in-the-corner-pocket/comment-page-1#comment-30117 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:45:28 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/2005/01/17/orange-wedge-in-the-corner-pocket/#comment-30117 laugh yes, the jury really shouldn’t be sitting in lethal electric chairs.

have you ever played (or watched) Snooker? look at the balls they use and remember this dream.

love, si

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Comment on The Lucifer Effect by Si https://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/04/the-lucifer-effect/comment-page-1#comment-30116 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:24:51 +0000 http://binarynomad.com/blog/2008/02/04/the-lucifer-effect#comment-30116 Hey! I heard them announcing that but haven’t had a chance to listen. However, i followed your handy link to the author’s page and was stunned to find he was the one who did the Stanford Prison Experiment. I’ve been hearing about that, and talking about it for years. Truly amazing. It blows me away how little people in general think about human behavior, and about their own behavior. How else are we to understand and change what’s going on if we don’t understand the dominant species on the planet?

And a recommendation for you in exchange: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. It’s about the decisions we make before we know it, in those first nanoseconds. When the cops see a “perp” reach into his pocket and six of them riddle the guy with bullets only to find he was reaching for his wallet… how did they all make the same mistake? It’s about the prejudices we don’t realize we’re carrying, the choices we may not realize we are making. Fascinating. By the same guy who wrote The Tipping Point (which i also recommend highly).

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