New Tricks for Old Dogs

[mortonfox]

Light snow this evening. More 30°F weather.

Gas stations near my place are slow to lower their prices. So yesterday, I filled up at one of the Route 17 gas stations in Saddle River for 12 cents/gallon less. Of course, I should have filled up in South Jersey where prices were already below $2/gallon.

One thing I learnt in the Where's George forums this evening is that the website is now able to sort hits by distance. So I did that and at 18,518 miles, this bill is my furthest traveled bill. It went from New Jersey to New Hampshire to Australia to California over a period of 2 years 114 days.

The second thing I learnt was from a group discussion forum in Flickr. In each of the "Popular" sections (Intereting, Views, Favorites, and Comments) under "Your Photos", you can go beyond the 10th page simply by editing the URL to "page11", "page12", etc at the end. I had no idea Flickr allowed that but it will be useful for, among other things, quickly figuring out how many of my photos have had 100 or more views. (Answer: Currently, 945!)

Anyway, the point is even though I've been on those two websites for a long time (especially Where's George, which I've been using for over 7 years!), there are bound to be tricks or new features that I haven't heard of. So it pays to read the forums now and then.

Comments

[furahi.livejournal.com]

So it wasn't just my imagination, gas prices *have* been going down, huh?
I've seen discrepancies as big as $0.25 between gas stations. Unfortunately the usual-cheapest charges a $0.45 fee if you pay with plastic, so I don't go there all that often.

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

There's a gas station imposing fee for credit card use? I thought credit card companies disallowed such surcharges.

I use cash, except when redeeming gas rewards.