Automotive and Shoppers Hotline Updates

[mortonfox]

Oil change yesterday evening. 70,962 miles. Also had the air filter changed because it was full of dirt. They had wi-fi in the waiting area but their uplink was flaky. I couldn't get to anything on the internet at first but a little later, it was fine.

After that, I went to Burger King in Ramsey to use my 2nd-last coupon on a BK Big Fish and chicken fries. To my surprise, there was wi-fi there too, although it was from their neighbors, not the restaurant itself. (medium signal strength) What's amazing is there are now 5 wi-fi networks at the Interstate strip mall, where there were none when I checked last year. It's remarkable how quickly the town got blanketed in overlapping wi-fi networks.

Since my printer ran out of toner recently, I used my Shoppers' Hotline reward to get a new toner cartridge. As you may recall, I signed up at Shoppers' Hotline a year and a half ago. A little later, they sent me a debit card linked to my rewards account and that's how I placed the order at Newegg. I can't say that Shoppers' Hotline is a good way to earn money though. Even if I participate every week, it comes out to only a few dollars per month. But it doesn't take much time to scan my purchases with the scanner and, as far as privacy concerns go, I don't mind those folks compiling statistical info about my mundane grocery purchases anyway.

Comments

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, what a cute Basset :)

[d4b.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask where that dog sculpture was, but then I figured it out all by myself. :-) I might even go visit him this weekend; I'll be in that area. I'm almost surprised that Flickr doesn't already automatically point to Google Maps.

As for privacy, this is spoken by a guy who already blogs, twitters, flickrs, geocaches, etc., most every detail of where, when and what you are doing 24/7. :-) I get old-school types sometimes who are shocked at the amount of personal disclosure that I make publicly, and then I think about folks like you, who publish at least an order of magnitude more than I, and I think, "eh, what I do is nothing".

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

24/7?? When I start posting to Twitter in my sleep about that dream I'm having, that'll be something! :)

There are two approaches to disclosure. One is to disclose nothing. The other is to disclose tons of trivial stuff to give the impression that you have nothing to hide, while omitting certain key details. Okay, I've said enough. ;)

Flickr already uses Yahoo Maps though.

[d4b.livejournal.com]

How did I know you were going to use that icon? :-)

Oh, I didn't catch the Yahoo Maps link, then. I found the lat/long tags and then plugged those into GMaps by hand.

Yeah, I know what you mean about omitting key details. I'm pretty careful there, myself, although admittedly I've made some mistakes along the way. (You're even more careful than I am.) Other times, I intentionally leave certain things out in plain sight, but force people to dig a bit in order to find the answers.